Introduction to Operations Management

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	TYPES	KEY DATES
1	Course Introduction	Lecture
2	Burger King and McDonald’s	Case
3	Capacity	Lecture
4	National Cranberry	Case
5	Webvan	Case
6	Inventory	Lecture	Exercises: EOQ, Newsboy
7	Barilla	Case
8	Sport Obermeyer	Case	Case write-up
9	Production Control	Lecture	Exercises: Kanban Cards, Pooling
10	Hewlett-Packard	Case
11	The Goal	Book	Book review due
12	Quality	Lecture	Exercises: SPC reading, Six Sigma
13	Toyota	Case
14	Process Design	Lecture	Simulation exercise begins at 6:00 p.m.
15	Global Financial Corp.	Case
16	Supply Chain Design	Lecture
17	Product Design	Lecture	Simulation exercise ends at 6:00 p.m.
18	Sega Dreamcast	Case	Simulation write-up due day after lecture 18
19	Simulation and Course Wrap-up	Lecture