ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Operations Management, 2(2-0) Term: Sep 2022

Class Plan (Rev 01)

No. Date Topic Assignment and Reading

1 16 Sep Overview Read Heizer, chapter 1
• What is operations management (Operations and productivity)
• Planning and issues in operations management

Case: KT Beverage

Demand planning
• Demand planning’s role in operations
management
2 17 Sep Demand planning Read Heizer, chapter 4
• Forecasting techniques (Forecasting)
• Demand management

Case: Demand and Supply Forecasting at Air Products

3 17 Sep Product development Read Heizer, p159 – p173
• Product development (Product development)
• Issues for product design
Read Paper: Understanding
Discussion: Planned obsolescence demand
4 18 Sep Capacity Plan Read Heizer, Supplement 7
• Capacity plan decisions (Capacity and constraint)

Facility location Read Heizer, p382 – p389

• Factors that affect location decisions (Evaluating location
alternatives)
5 18 Sep Case: Capacity Planning at Genentech

6 19 Sep Inventory management Read Heizer, p488 – p509

• Basics in inventory management (Inventory Management)
• Economic order quantity (EOQ) models

7 20 Sep Supply chain planning in an organization Read Heizer, Chapter 13

• Annual supply chain planning (Aggregate Planning)
• Planning in services (reading assignment)

8 21 Sep Operations management analytics HW: KT Beverage, Agg I

• Optimization (Aggregate planning)
• Simulation
9 22 Sep Case: MacPherson Operations Planning Read Heizer, Chapter 6
(Quality and TQM)
Quality Management

10 23 Sep Exam

Class review
Note the reference chapter and pages of the Heizer’s textbook: Operations Management:
Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (12th Edition).

Grade allocation
1. Assignments (group and individual) and quizzes (individual) 50%
2. Exam 50%

Note:
• The homework (HW) assignments must be submitted before the next-week class after the
assignment is assigned (refer to the class plan table above).