Closure
Course Outline
1. Introduction
a. Course Objectives, Context, and Outline
b. Operations Management as a component of Corporate Strategy
2. Inventory Management for Pure Inventory Systems
a. The EOQ formula and its variants
b. Introduction to inventory control with stochastic demand: service level and safety stock
3. Production Planning and Control
a. Production flows for discrete-part manufacturing and their documentation
b. “Make-or-Buy” decisions and capacity planning
c. Types of layout
c. Aggregate Planning
d. MRP Explosion for multi-stage production systems
e. Lot Sizing
f. Shop Floor Scheduling
g. Pull Systems and the Just-In-Time Philosophy
Course Outline
4. Layout Design
a. Systematic Layout Planning
a. Cellular Manufacturing: Cell Formation
b. (Assembly) Line Balancing
i. Deterministic Operational Context
ii. Stochastic Operational Context
c. Layout Problems in the Warehousing Context
i. Overview of the Warehousing Operations, Organization and Product Flow
ii. Storage Layouts
iii. Design of the Fast-Pick Area
iv. Cross-docking
• For Systematic Layout Planning: Chpt 10 from your textbook and today’s
lecture
• For Warehousing: Prof. Bartholdi’s electronic textbook on Warehousing
Science
Design of Process-based layouts
Arrange spatially the facility departments in a way that
• facilitates the flow of parts through the facility by minimizing
the material handling / traveling effort;
• observes additional practical constraints arising from, e.g.,
• processing/operational requirements
• safety/health considerations
• aesthetics
• building features
• etc.
Prevailing Methodology:
Systematic Layout Planning (SLP)
1. Material
Flows
2. Activity
Relationships
3. REL
Chart
4. REL
Diagram
5. Space
Requirements
6. Space REL
Diagram
7. Space
Availability
8. Layout
Alternatives
Departments  Activities
Example on SLP
Developed in class – c.f. your class notes!