Learning outcomes

To give basic notions of quantitative approaches used to solve production management problems. To introduce fundamental problems encountered in production management and some methods to solve them.

Goals

At the end of this course, students will be able to formulate and solve the following problems: 
- scheduling in specialized workshops, 
- inventory management (by order or calendar point), 
- component requirements planning (MRP), 
- just-in-time planning (Kanban method), 
- project management, 
- design of a production center.

Content

Production management includes conception, planning and control of all the activities that compose the production process of goods or services. This course includes an intoduction to the basic concepts of production management placed in a hierarchical decisions context. Questions of operational level (workshop scheduling, stock management), tactical level (mid-term planning, MRP and just in time) and of strategic / long term level (conception of a new product, of a new facility) will be successively studied. The last part of the course present two techniques of Operations Research used to solve these problems : linear programming and integer programming.

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Workshop scheduling Chapter 3,4. Stock management Chapter 5. Production planification: Material Requirement Planning Chapter 6. Just-In-Time methods Chapter 7. Project Management: application to the conception of a new product Chapter 8. Conception of a new facility.

Exercices

Chapter 1: formulation exercices Chapter 2: Johnson and Jakson's algorithms Chapter 3: Optimal initial inventory Chapter 4: Optimal ordered quantity and optimal order point Chapter 5: MRP Chapter 6: Kanban Chapter 7: PERT Chapter 8: Chain balance, localisation problems.

Assessment method

Written examination (only exercices).Formula and tables available.

Sources, references and any support material

[1] BAGLIN G., O. BRUEL,  L.  KERBACHE, J. NEHME et C. VAN DELFT, Management Industriel et Logistique, 6ème Edition, Economica, Paris, 2013.

[2] GIARD V., Gestion de la production et des flux, Economica, 3ème Edition, Paris, 2003. [

[3}] J.O. MAC CLAIN, L.J. THOMAS et J.B. MAZZOLA, Operations Management, 3ème édition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1992.

 

Language of instruction

French