Examining operations and materials management as part of the supply chain. Topics cover the components or activities of operations and materials management, incl. Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII) and all its elements [e.g. production plan, Master Production Schedule (MPS), Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), capacity planning, Production Activity Control (PAC)], demand forecasting and purchasing, inventory management, warehouse management, distribution management, managing work in progress (WIP), physical distribution, process design, Just-in-time (JIT), lean production and total quality management. -- Course Website
