6/74012 SCHEDULING AND PLANNING

FALL 2002

INSTRUCTOR: Professor Marvin D. Troutt

OFFICE: A426 BSA

PHONE: 330-672-1145 (Voice-mail), 330-672-0487 (Home)

E-MAIL: mtroutt@bsa3.kent.edu

CLASS: 12:15 – 1:30; T-R; 209BSA

OFFICE HOURS: 1:30-3:00MWF

COURSE DESCRIPTION: An introduction to production planning and scheduling models used to solve real-world problems. Included are aggregate planning, nonlinear cost, production and work force smoothing, adaptive, multistage models and pull systems (JIT,OPT). Prerequisite: BAD 6/74003.

ADVANCED TOPICS: Some or all of the following advanced topics will also be contacted: Bottleneck Analysis and The Theory of Constraints (TOC), Cost Estimation, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems.

COURSE STYLE: Lectures, Student Talks, Projects and Term Papers. There will be one test. This will be a graduate seminar class.

TEXTS: No text will be required. Lectures and readings will be based on several texts and articles.

EXAMS and ASSIGNMENTS:

A takehome final exam will be assigned. Students will also do a report that will involve interviewing 2-3 business people who are familiar with this topic area. A report will be base on a textbook and will be related to the final exam.

COURSE POINTS: Exam 100

Paper 100

Report 100

Total 300

GRADING: A = Excellent, B = Average, C = Poor.

The Following Policies Apply to All Students in this Course

A. Students attending the course who do not have the proper prerequisite risk being deregistered from the class.

B. Students have responsibility to ensure they are properly enrolled in classes. You are advised to review your official class schedule during the first two weeks of the semester to ensure you are properly enrolled in this class and section. Should you find an error in your class schedule, you have until September 7, 2001 to correct it with your advising office. If registration errors are not corrected by this date and you continue to attend and participate in classes for which you are not officially enrolled, you are advised now that you will not receive a grade at the conclusion of the semester for any class in which you are not properly registered.

C. Academic Honesty: Cheating means to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of your academic work (e.g., tests, papers, projects, assignments) so as to get undeserved credit. The use of the intellectual property of others without giving them appropriate credit is a serious academic offense. It is the University's policy that cheating or plagiarism result in receiving a failing grade for the work or course. Repeat offenses result in dismissal from the University.

D. For Fall 2001 the course withdrawal deadline is Saturday, November 3, 2001. Withdrawal before the deadline results in a "W" on the official transcript; after the deadline a grade must be calculated and reported.

E. Students with disabilities: In accordance with University policy, if you have a documented disability and require accommodations to obtain equal access in this course, please contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester or when given an assignment for which an accommodation is required. Students with disabilities must verify their eligibility through the Office of Student Disability Services (SDS) in the Michael Schwartz Service Center (672-3391).