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Required


We recommend the following book, and will suggest complementary readings throughout the class, as well as use some of its cases and computer exercises:

Amazon logo Simchi-Levi, David, Philip Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain. 2nd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 0071410317. (SKS)



Recommended


We also recommend and suggest the following books as useful references or complements:

Amazon logo Hopp, Wallace, and Mark Spearman. Factory Physics. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Irwin, 2000. ISBN: 0256247951. (HS)

Amazon logo Nahmias, Steven. Production and Operations Analysis. 4th ed. Boston, MA: Irwin, 2000. ISBN: 0072417412. (N)

Amazon logo Chopra, Sunil and Peter Meindl. Supply Chain Management. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN: 013101028X. (CM)

Amazon logo Shapiro, Jeremy. Modeling the Supply Chain. Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury, 2001. ISBN: 0534373631. (S)

Amazon logo Silver, Edward, David Pyke, and Rein Peterson. Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 1998. ISBN: 0471119474. (SPP)



Calendar of Readings



LEC #TopicsREADINGS
1Introduction and Course Overview

Read: SKS, chapter 1.

Optional Reading: CM, pp. 3-26.

Lee, Hau L., and Corey Billington. "Managing Supply Chain Inventory: Pitfalls and Opportunities." Sloan Management Review 33, no. 3 (spring 1992): pp. 65-73.

2Inventory Models

This class will review basic inventory theory: periodic review order-up-to policy; continuous review reorder point policy
Read: SKS, chapter 3.

Kimball, G. E. "General Principles of Inventory Control." Technical report. Cambridge, MA: Arthur D. Little, Inc. Republished in Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management 1 (Spring 1988): pp. 119-130.

Optional Reading: N, pp. 265-313.

HS, pp. 48-88.

CM, pp. 249-383.
3Inventory Systems
4Supply Chain Tactical Planning

Guest Speaker: Mike Watson, Logic Tools
5Supply Contracts I

These classes will introduce various types of supply chain contracts and examine how these mechanisms work, and in particular, how they help to accomplish supply chain coordination.
Read: SKS, chapter 3, pp. 53-57.
6Supply Contracts II
7Inventory Systems (cont.)

Guest Speaker: Dan Wheeler, LFM 2000
8Multi-echelon Inventory Systems

Introduction to challenges, issues and relevant models (e.g., Eppen Schrage) for multi-echelon inventory systems
Read: SKS, chapter 5, pp. 133-138.
9Supply Chain and Postponement
10Supply Chain and Product DesignRead: SKS, chapter 9.
11Supply Chain Integration - Controlling the Bullwhip

This class will discuss the bullwhip phenomenon, sources for it, ways of characterizing it, and then some remedies.
Read: SKS, chapter 4.
12Supply Chain and Safety Stock Placement

Guest Speaker - Barrett Crane, HP, LFM '96.
Barrett will speak about application of supply chain models to improve and optimize HP supply chains. In preparation you will have a computer exercise that utilizes a student-version of a tool used at HP; the purpose of the exercise will be to develop intuition for optimal placement of inventories in a supply chain.
Read: Billington, C., B. Crane, et. al. "Accelerating the Profitability of Hewlett-Packard's Supply Chains." Interfaces (Jan-Feb 2004).

Graves, S., and S. Willems. "Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Supply Chains." Proceedings of the 1996 MSOM Conference. Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, June 1996, pp. 299-304.
13Supply Chain and Safety Stock Placement
14Strategic Alliances and OutsourcingRead: SKS, chapter 6.
15Supply Chain Integration - Application of RFID

Wrap Up, Course Summary and Feedback for Continuous Improvement
Read: SKS, chapter 5.

 








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