Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani

KK Birla Goa Campus

Second Semester 2014-2015
Course Handout
Course No.

: ME F412

Course Title

: Production Planning & Control

Instructor I/C

: G KARTHIKEYAN

Course Description
Generalized model of production systems; types of production flows; life cycle concepts; facilities location
and layout planning; aggregate and batch production planning; inventory systems; materials requirements
planning; elements of monitoring and production control.
Scope and Objectives
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

Understand the fundamentals of production and operations management.

Explain the concept and importance of decision making in production and operations management.
Able to take decisions in design, planning and control of production systems.

Prescribed Text Book

T 1.

Rusell, R.S. & Taylor, B.W., Operations Management Along the Supply Chain, Wiley Student
Edition, 7th Ed., 2012.

Reference Books
R1.

Krajewski, L. J., and Ritzman, L.P., Operations Management: Strategy and Analysis, 6 th Edition,
Pearson Education, 2003.

R2.

Martinich, J.S., Production and Operations Management: An applied modern approach, john Wiley
and Sons Inc.

R3.

Adam, E.E and Ebert, R.J., Production & Operations Management, 5th Ed., PHI, 1993.

R4.

Chase, R.B., Aquilano, N.J., and Jacobs, F.R., Operation Management for Competitive Advantage,
10th Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2003.

R5.

Mahadevan, B. Operations Management: Theory and Practice, 2th Ed., Pearson Education, 2010.

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Course Handout

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Plan of Self-Study
No. of
Lectures

Learning Objectives

Topics to be covered

1-2

Operation management (OM), Operations strategy, Strategic importance of

Decision making in an organization.
Operations

3-6

Mathematical and other models in OM, Need of

economical analysis, Methods of evaluation.

7-10
11-13
14-16
17-19
20-22

23-26

27-29
30-33
34-35

36-38
39-40
41-42

Forecasting in OM, Judgemental, casual and

projective forecasting, Measures of forecasting.
New product development, Life cycle evaluation of
product
Planning and design of process technologies,
Processes in the service sector, Analysing a
process.
Process, product, hybrid, fixed-position and
specialized layouts.
Introduction, Selecting the geographic region,
Costing alternative locations, Scoring models,
Geometric models, Locating multiple facilities,
Location of facilities on networks
Measures of performance, Process capacity,
Productivity, Capacity planning, Changing capacity
over time, Hierarchy of planning decision,
Planning process, Aggregate planning, Master
schedule
Short-term schedules, Rule for n-jobs of one
machine, n-jobs on 2 machines and use of theory of
constraints.
MRP, Batching of discrete variable demand,
Extensions to MRP II, ERP.
Supply chain management: Strategy, Enabler,
Integration and performance, Procurement and
distribution.
Background to stock keeping, Classic analysis of
inventory control, Inventory control for production
systems, Probabilistic demand, Periodic review
systems, Single period models, ABC analysis.
Introduction to the concepts of Lean production,
JIT and Kanban system.
Quality Control: Sampling plans, OC curve, SPC
and Control Charts.

Reference*
Chap / see
(Book)
1, 1S (T1)

Role of models,
Economic analysis

2S (T1)
1, 2 (R3)
Appendix
(R2)

Forecasting

12 (T1)

Product planning

4 (T1)

Process planning

6 (T1)

Layout planning

7 (T1)

Facilities location

7S(T1)

Capacity and
Aggregate planning

7, 14 (T1)

Production scheduling

17 (T1)

MRP and ERP

15 (T1)

Supply chain

10, 11 (T1)

Inventory planning

13 (T1)

Lean Production

16 (T1)

Quality control

2, 3, 3S (T1)

* In addition, students are advised to refer the class notes and slides uploaded in Photon.

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Evaluation Scheme
EC
No.
1

Evaluation
Component
Test I

Duration

Marks

Date

Remarks

60 mins.

50

24-02-2015

Closed Book

Test II

60 mins.

50

24-03-2015

Closed Book

Surprise Quiz

15 mins.

20

Comp. Exam

3 hours

80

To be announced in class
11-05-2015

Closed Book

Chamber Consultation hour: Room No.: A-313/1 and time 2:00 - 3:00PM (Tuesday)
Notices: All notices regarding the course will be displayed on Photon notice board only
Makeup policy: Student with genuine reason may be given consideration for makeup exam provided
a prior permission is obtained.

Instructor-In-Charge
ME C412