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.