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 planning: 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.

Teaching methods

Exercises included in lectures.

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