BSCM Detailed Course Information

1. Introduction to Supply Chain Management

• Role and importance of manufacturing
• Conflicts in traditional systems
• Role, objectives, and responsibilities of materials management
• Differences among manufacturing processes
• Importance of planning
• Planning and control system
• Planning hierarchy
• Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II)

2. Forecasting

• Factors influencing demand
• Basic demand patterns
• Basic principles of forecasting
• Principles of data collection
• Basic forecasting techniques
• Seasonality
• Sources and types of forecast error

3. Master Planning

• Level production plan for make-to-stock products
• Relationship of resource requirements planning to production planning
• Purpose of a master production schedule (MPS) and relationship to the production plan
• MPS and rough-cut capacity plan
• Relationship of the MPS to sales and the ability to promise delivery

4. Material Requirements Planning

• Nature of demand and use of material requirements planning (MRP)
• The MRP process
• Purpose of bill of materials
• Different bill of materials formats
• Lead time, exploding, and offsetting
• Order planning and control

5. Capacity Management and Production Activity Control

• Capacity management and its relation to priority planning
• Rated or calculated capacity
• Capacity required for a shop order
• Purpose and activities of production activity control (PAC)
• Process of order preparation and data requirements for a PAC system
• Techniques of scheduling
• Purpose of a shop order and necessary information
• Implementation and control of work orders
• Input/output reports

6. Inventory Fundamentals

• Importance of good inventory management
• Classification of inventory based on flow of material
• Functions inventories perform
• Objectives of inventory management
• Costs that are relevant to inventory decisions
• Costs of ordering and carrying inventory
• Simple financial statements
• Simple inventory turns ratio

7. Inventory Management

• Costs that are relevant in deciding how much to order
• Economic order quantity (EOQ) formula
• Order point
• Safety stock
• Service level
• Two-bin and perpetual inventory systems
• The periodic review system
• Auditing inventory records
• Cycle counting process

8. Physical Distribution

• Concepts of ABC inventory control
• Steps in a simple ABC inventory analysis
• Activities of a physical distribution system
• Physical distribution, marketing, and production relationships
• Warehouse activities
• Packaging
• Unitization
• Pull, push, and distribution requirements planning
• Transportation modes
• Transportation cost structure

9. Quality Management and Purchasing

• Marketplace pressures that are driving quality standards higher in manufacturing
• Costs of quality
• Attributes of normal variability
• Quality in manufactured products
• Pareto analysis, control charts, and fishbone diagrams
• Process control and product inspection
• Purchasing, its objectives, and steps in the purchasing cycle
• Purchase order control
• Factors to consider in establishing specifications
• Supplier selection
• Supplier agreements

10. Just-in-Time Manufacturing

• Definition of Just-in-Time (JIT)
• Concept and causes of waste
• Continuous flow manufacturing and intermittent manufacturing
• Advantages of machine flexibility and setup time reduction
• Total quality management (TQM) and lot size, lead time, and work in process
• Pull systems
• JIT relationships with suppliers
• Total productive maintenance
• Employee empowerment
• JIT and traditional manufacturing planning and control systems
• MRP, JIT, and TQM