October 11, 2014

Production and Materials Management Syllabus

PRODUCTION AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT


Unit  I:
Introduction  to  Materials  Management  -  Operating  environment,  Supply  chain
concept, what is material management? Supply chain metrics

Unit  2:
Production  Planning  System  and  Master  Scheduling  –  Manufacturing  Planning
and  Control  System,  Sales  and  Operations  Planning,  MRP,  ERP,  Making  the  Production
Plan, Developing a MPS, Production Planning, Master Scheduling and Sales

Unit  3:
Capacity  Management  and  Production  Activity  Control  -  Definition,  Capacity
Planning,  Capacity  Requirements  Planning,  Capacity  Available,  Capacity  Required,
Scheduling  Orders,  Making  the  plan,  Load  Leveling,  Scheduling  Bottlenecks,  Theory  of
constraints

Unit  4:
Order  Quantity  and  Independent  demand  Ordering  System  –  EOQ  and  its
variations,  Quantity  Discount,  Fixed  Period  and  Fixed  Quantity  Ordering  Systems,  Order
Point  System,  Safety  Stocks,  Determination  of  Service  Levels,  Periodic  Review  System,
Dependent Demand Ordering System, Kanban system.

Unit 5:
Purchasing  -  Introduction, Establishing Specifications and Functional Specification
Description,  Selecting  Suppliers,  Price  Determination,  Impact  of  Material  Requirement
planning  on  purchasing,  Expansion  of  purchasing  into  supply  chain  management  and  its
organizational implications

Unit  6:
JIT  Manufacturing  and  Lean  Production  -  JIT  Philosophy,  JIT  Environment,
Manufacturing  Planning  and  control  in  JIT  Environment,  Lean  Production,  Difference
between Kanban, JIT and Lean, 5S.


Suggested Reading:
1.  Introduction to Materials Management-J.R. Tony Arnold, Stephen Chapman, Pearson
Education 6 Edition
2.  Procurement-Principles and Management, Baily, 10th Edition, Pearson
3.  Purchasing and Materials Management, Gopalakrishnan, McGraw-Hill
4.  Purchasing  and  Materials  Management,Anand  Kumar  Mishra,D  K  Publishers  and
Distributers
5.  Purchasing and Materials Management,K.C. Jain,S. Chand
6.  Productions and Operations Management,Kanishka Bedi, Oxford Higher Education

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