ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
SM60.66 Operations Management, 2(2-0)

Semester: January 2013

Class Plan
No.
1

Date
15-Jan

Topic
Overview
What is operations management
Planning and issues in operations management

Assignment and Reading

Read Heizer, chapter 1

Case: Class case, KT Production

22-Jan

Forecasting
Forecast characteristics and its role in operations
management
Forecasting (cont.)
Forecasting techniques

Read Heizer, chapter 4

HW: Heizer 4.9, 4.19, KT
(Forecasting)

29-Jan

05-Feb

Product development
Product development
Issues for product design

Read Heizer, p190 p200

Capacity Plan
Investment timing analysis
Decision trees to capacity decisions

HW: Heizer S7.28, KT

(Capacity plan)

Quiz 01
Facility location
Factors that affect location decisions
Center of gravity method
Service location (reading assignment)

Read Heizer, p329 p333

Read Heizer, p347 p351

Read Heizer, p354 p360
HW: Heizer 8.23 (a, b)

12-Feb

19-Feb

26-Feb
(Makeup)

05-Mar

Case: FedEx (in text)

Inventory management
Basics in inventory management
Economic order quantity (EOQ) models
Quiz 02
Aggregate planning
Role in operations planning
Aggregate planning strategy
Aggregate planning methods
Aggregate planning in services (reading
assignment)
Operations planning game
Materials requirement planning
Role in operations planning
MRP process
Lot-sizing techniques
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Short-term scheduling
Role in operations planning
Sequencing rules
Quality management

Read Heizer, p498 p519

HW: Heizer 12.13 (a, b, c, d, e)

Read Heizer, p542 p559

HW: KT (Aggregate planning)

Read Heizer, p576 p593

Read Heizer, p597 p600
HW: Heizer 14.19
Read Heizer, p626 p628
HW: Heizer 15.13

10

12-Mar

19-Mar

Defining quality
Total quality management

Quiz 03
Case Discussion: Toyota Recalls

Read Heizer, p220 p231

Just-in-time and lean production

Read Heizer, p652 p669

Written exam

Note:
The homework (HW) assignments must be submitted in a hard copy in the following class after the
assignment is assigned (refer to the class plan table above) by 13:15.
Quizzes will be given generally at the beginning of the class
o For an absentee (for any reason) for a quiz, there will not be a make-up quiz. The grade
will be automatically given by the lowest grade among all the quizzes that the student take.
Note that only one absentee is allowed.
Grade allocation
1. Assignment
a. Homeworks (individual) (20%)
b. Toyota recall (10%)
2. Quizzes
20%
3. Written exam
50%