Comprehensive coverage of product and service design including design strategy factors, objectives, life cycles, standardization, reliability, manufacturability, concurrent engineering, CAD, recycling, and facility layout and location planning.
Introduction to supply chain management covering sequence of organizations, facilities, functions, typical supply chains for manufacturers and services, need for SCM, and bullwhip effect in inventory management.
Presentation covering supply chain management benefits (lower inventories, higher productivity), elements (logistics, e-commerce), JIT systems, challenges, supplier relationships, and critical issues in purchasing, outsourcing, and globalization.
Comprehensive guide covering inventory management concepts including types, functions, EOQ models, ABC classification, inventory counting systems, reorder points, safety stock, and operations strategies for efficient inventory control and cost minimization.
JIT and lean operations covering JIT/lean production definition (just-in-time coordinated processing system), goal of balanced system, supporting goals (eliminate disruptions, make system flexible, eliminate waste), sources of waste, big vs little JIT, building blocks (product design, process design, personnel elements, manufacturing planning), benefits of small lot sizes, production flexibility, takt time, quality improvement (autonomation, jidoka), Kanban production control system (pull/push systems, types, formula), supplier networks (traditional vs tiered), JIT vs traditional comparison, transitioning to JIT, obstacles, JIT in services, JIT II, benefits of JIT systems, elements of JIT.