Course Objectives:

To examine how a firm can develop distinctive competencies in its productive 
resources in order to reverse the recent productivity trends and shifts in 
the world market.

To explore how the composition of an organization's resources should change 
in the future as a result of recent advances in manufacturing and office 
technologies.

To provide a systematic means of observing and measuring organizational 
processes.

To develop an understanding of the different methods used to plan, schedule, 
and maintain the resources necessary to meet demand for goods and services 
in the short-term, medium-term, and long-term.

To determine the mix of work-force skills, technology, and design of facility 
is best suited to achieve goals such as high quality, volume and product-mix 
flexibility, quick customer response times, and low cost.

The following topics are covered in this course:

Section 1 - Integrated Resource Management
- Trends in Integrated Resource Management
- Corporate and Resource Strategies
- Meeting Competitive Challenges
	
Section 2 - Project Management
- Project Management: Teamwork and Organization
- PERT/CPM

Section 3 - Planning New Products, Services, and Processes
- Planning New Products and Services
- Competitive Priorities: Eliminating the Trade-Offs
- Time-Based Competition and Simultaneous Engineering
- Process Design and Positioning Strategies

Section 4 - Total Quality Management	
- Continuous Quality Improvement 
- Market Implications/ Cost Implications
- Statistical Quality Control

Section 5 - Demand Forecasting, Capacity Planning, Supply Chain Management
- Responsibility for Demand Management
- Demand Forecasting
- Capacity Planning in Services and Manufacturing
- Capacity Utilization
- Toward Partnerships with Suppliers

Section 6 - Inventory Control, JIT, MRP, and Enterprise Resource Systems, 
            Synchronized Manufacturing 
- Inventory Control in Services, Dependent and Independent Demand, and EOQ
- Just-in-Time Philosophy
- Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Enterprise Resource Systems (ERP)

All students are responsible for maintaining the highest standards of 
honesty and integrity in every phase of their academic careers.  The
penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an
acceptable defense.

Academic honesty means performing all academic work without plagiarizing,
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving assistance from any other
person or using any source of information that is not common knowledge.