IE5001 Operations Planning and Control I

AY2021/2022 Semester 1
Module Information

Instructor
A/Prof Ng Kien Ming
Email: cosnkm@nus.edu.sg
Office: E1-05-26
Phone: 6516-5541

Teaching Assistant
Ms Wei Jiachen (e0408682@u.nus.edu)

Description
Operations research and its applications, mainly in the area of production planning and
control: linear programming, network analysis, project planning and scheduling, dynamic
programming, inventory control models, queueing theory, replacement theory and
maintenance models.

Prerequisites
Preclusions: BDC5101.

Timetable
Lectures:
Friday, 1800-2100

Textbooks
Required:
Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, Wayne L. Winston, Thomson/Cengage
Learning, 4th edition

Supplementary/Optional:
Introduction to Operations Research, Frederick S. Hillier & Gerald J. Lieberman,
McGraw Hill, 11th edition
Operations Research: An Introduction, Hamdy A. Taha, Pearson, 10th edition

Objectives
1. Understand the operations research (OR) approach to problem solving and decision
making.
2. Understand the assumptions made for OR models.
3. Able to recognize problems that can be solved by OR methods and to formulate
them as OR models.
4. Able to apply OR methods to obtain solution(s) to OR models.
5. Able to interpret, analyze and provide insights on the solution(s) to OR models.
Assessment
Midterm Examination: 20% (1st October)
Final Examination: 80%

Outline and Schedule

Week Number Date Topics
1 13/08/21 Introduction to Operations Research
2 20/08/21 Linear Programming
3 27/08/21 Linear Programming
4 03/09/21 Linear Programming Duality/Sensitivity Analysis
5 10/09/21 Network Models
6 17/09/21 Network Models
Recess 24/09/21 No Class
Network Models
7 01/10/21
Midterm Exam
8 08/10/21 Nonlinear Programming
9 15/10/21 Inventory Control Models
10 22/10/21 Inventory Control Models
11 29/10/21 Queueing Theory
12 05/11/21 Queueing Theory
13 12/11/21 Replacement Theory/Maintenance Models