Digital Teaching
Digital course content will be provided via Moodle.
Course Contents
The course deals with strategic decision problems that arise in production and logistics. The focus of the course is on the determination of production capacities, the determination of optimal facility locations and the design of supply chains. As decision problems in these areas are often associated with high investments, supporting the investment decisions with planning models may improve the cost position of the company significantly. The course discusses quantitative planning models that support the decision problems mentioned above. Special attention is also paid to the role human workers play in production and logistics by discussing methods for measuring workload and models for forecasting human learning.
Literature
Will be announced in the course.
Preconditions
Basic knowledge in production planning and control as well as in mathematical optimization will be of help.
Expected Number of Participants
130
Further Grading Information
After participating in the course, the students are able to
[list]
[*]define important production strategies and to assess their applicability;
[*]formulate and solve aggregate planning problems for determining capacities;
[*]identify the determinants of the make-or-buy decision and to support this decision with the help of quantitative models;
[*]describe learning curves and know how to apply them;
[*]apply methods for assessing human workload;
[*]solve selected warehouse management problems;
[*]formulate and solve facility location problems;
[/list]
Online Offerings
Moodle
Digital course content will be provided via Moodle.
Course Contents
The course deals with strategic decision problems that arise in production and logistics. The focus of the course is on the determination of production capacities, the determination of optimal facility locations and the design of supply chains. As decision problems in these areas are often associated with high investments, supporting the investment decisions with planning models may improve the cost position of the company significantly. The course discusses quantitative planning models that support the decision problems mentioned above. Special attention is also paid to the role human workers play in production and logistics by discussing methods for measuring workload and models for forecasting human learning.
Literature
Will be announced in the course.
Preconditions
Basic knowledge in production planning and control as well as in mathematical optimization will be of help.
Expected Number of Participants
130
Further Grading Information
After participating in the course, the students are able to
[list]
[*]define important production strategies and to assess their applicability;
[*]formulate and solve aggregate planning problems for determining capacities;
[*]identify the determinants of the make-or-buy decision and to support this decision with the help of quantitative models;
[*]describe learning curves and know how to apply them;
[*]apply methods for assessing human workload;
[*]solve selected warehouse management problems;
[*]formulate and solve facility location problems;
[/list]
Online Offerings
Moodle
- Lehrende: Christoph Glock
Semester: Verão 2022