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OP121.C1 – Production Planning & Inventory Control
Celeste Ayers
Adjunct Professor
Ageno School of Business
GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY
Contact Information
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: (209) 484-8384
First Day of class: Sunday, October 23, 2011
Last Day of class: Saturday, December 17, 2011
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Course Description
Surveys the design, development, implementation and management of production
planning systems, including master production scheduling, aggregate planning,
material requirements planning, capacity and inventory planning and production
activity control. Students will be exposed to contemporary approaches such as just-in-
time, theory of constraints and the relationship of enterprise-level planning and control
systems to the overall materials flow.
You will receive 3 units of credit if you successfully complete this class. This means
that you can expect to spend 2 hours 40 minutes in class and/or online in class each
week plus an additional 8-12 hours each week completing homework and preparing
for the next class. You can expect to spend more time studying some weeks and less
time other weeks, but overall you should expect to average between 11 and 15 hours
each week on this class for the entire term.
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Course Objectives
Students should be able to articulate and apply the following tools and practices of
production planning and inventory control:
• The elements, processes, and technologies comprising the field of
Manufacturing Planning and Control (MPC)
• Demand management theories and techniques – forecasting, CPFR
• Sales and Operations Planning process in the firm
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) – How MPS decisions are supported by
ERP
• Supply chain inventory management – independent demand items
• Using a Material Requirement Planning system