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Materials, Supply Chain and Logistics management principles and approaches. Long-term, medium-term, and short-term planning and control methods. This course focuses on inventory management through the supply chain. A mainstream course for Operations Management majors.
This course expands on the issues and processes first introduced in MSCI 102, MSCI 112 and MSCI221, in particular materials management and their associated costs. The course then covers in depth materials management principles and tools. Supply chain management is discussed from an inventory and materials management perspective. Logistics management and its implications are also discussed.
1. Understand the relationship between ERP and MRP.2. To understand the issues regarding the use of Materials Requirements Planning systems.3. To understand the issue regarding the use of Just In Time systems.4. To understand the principles of the Theory of Constraints and to be able to apply them.5. To understand the methods involved with capacity planning and scheduling within the context of production planning and control.6. To understand implementation issues of production planning and control systems.7. To understand how to manage independent demand situations.8. Understand the implications for various approaches to supply chain management on inventory management.9. Understand the importance of logistics in the delivery of products and services.
MSCI220, MSCI221
MSCI303
Ross James
Andrew Cooper
Email Andrew Cooper
Vollmann, Thomas E. , Berry, William L., Whybark, D. Clay; Manufacturing planning and control for supply chain management ; 5th ed., International ed; McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Relationship to Other Courses:This course is one of the four Stage Three Operations Management courses offered by Department of Management. It builds on the introductory material covered in MSCI220 and MSCI221. Other papers that are useful to complement an OM major are MSCI320, MSCI323, MSCI324 and MSCI302. Students taking MSCI, MGMT, AFIS and Engineering would also find this paper useful.Workload:Work load for this course, in terms of class preparation, review, assignments, readings and examination preparation is about 10 hours per week.Grading:Your final mark will be calculated after the raw marks have been standardised.Late Assignments:Assignments submitted after the due date without an extension being granted by the Lecturer will have 10% of the mark deducted for every day or part day the assignment is late. Assignments will not be accepted for marking if the assignment is submitted any later than 5 days after the due date.The Learning Process:It is YOUR responsibility to learn the material for this course to the standard you set for yourself. The resources outlined below will aid you in this process, but ultimately you will get out of this course what you put into it. The measures used to determine how successfully you have learnt the material will be outlined in an objective sheet given out at the start of each section of the course. Learning Resources:The material taught in this course comes primarily from the text by Vollman et al. This text is required reading for the course and will be your primary resource for the theory of the subject. Lectures will not cover everything that is in the text, although all material in the chapters covered in the course will be examinable but the emphasis will be on that material covered in lectures. The lectures will not consist of a regurgitation of the text but will be primarily examples and exercises to teach the concepts behind the theory. You are expected to read the text and make your own notes from it, do not expect the lectures to provide you with this. Reading of the text BEFORE the lecture is going to be critical to your learning. Lectures will be interactive and hands on. If you do not participate in lectures you will miss the main benefit of them. Lectures will be work for you!Quality Assurance Meetings are every week. This is a time for you to meet with others in the class to discuss the material presented in the text and lectures, check your understanding of the material with those in the group by working through exercises and cases. Why call them QA Meetings? These meetings are intended to be more than just a tutorial session working through problems. They are for you to check the quality of your knowledge, to ensure you understand the material, not by only checking answers to problems but by being able to answer questions posed by others in the class. It has been proven that when you teach someone else the things you know, you also gain further insight, and it clarifies your own understanding. The library provides many different resources, including many other texts on materials management. Remember when using these resources for your assignment, that full referencing is required.This course uses Learn as a means of distributing lecture notes, assignments and previous examples of test and examinations. Dishonest Practice:The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty. All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the University.Departmental Academic Policies If you want a hard copy of this document, please ask the course co-ordinator. The Department assumes that you have read this document. You should also read the “Information related to courses and assessment” on page 372 of the Enrolment Handbook 2009 (also in UC Calendar under “General Course and Examination Regulations”).Coversheets - Group and Individual
Domestic fee $527.00
International fee $2,217.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
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