Supply Chain: Capacity Analytics

Simchi-Levi, David, Philip Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain . 2nd ed. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2003. ISBN: 0071410317. (SKS)

Hopp, Wallace, and Mark Spearman. Factory Physics . 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Irwin, 2000. ISBN: 0256247951. (HS)

Nahmias, Steven. Production and Operations Analysis . 4th ed. Boston, MA: Irwin, 2000. ISBN: 0072417412. (N)

Chopra, Sunil and Peter Meindl. Supply Chain Management . 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004. ISBN: 013101028X. (CM)

Shapiro, Jeremy. Modeling the Supply Chain . Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury, 2001. ISBN: 0534373631. (S)

Silver, Edward, David Pyke, and Rein Peterson. Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling . 3rd ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 1998. ISBN: 0471119474. (SPP)

Furey, T. M. “Decision Elements in the Design of a Consumer Electronics Assembly Plant.” S. M. thesis. MIT, 1999.

Optional Readings

Alvarez Lopez, Liana. “Design and Implementation of Cellular Manufacturing in a Job Shop Environment.” S. M. thesis. MIT, 1997.

LEC #: 4 · TOPICS: Supply Chain Design I · READINGS: Read: SKS, Chapter 2.

Burman, M., S. Gershwin, and C. Suyematsu. “HP Uses Operations Research to Improve the Design of a Printer Production Line.” Interfaces 28 (Jan-Feb 1998): 24-36.

LEC #: 6 · TOPICS: Supply Chain Design II · READINGS: Read the MetalWork Corporation Case

LEC #: 8 · TOPICS: Revenue Management · READINGS: Read: SKS, Chapter 7.

LEC #: 11 · TOPICS: Design of a Supply Chain for a New Product · READINGS: Graves, S., and S. Willems. “Optimizing the Supply-Chain Configuration for New Products.” Proceedings of the 2000 MSOM Conference . Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, June 2000, p. 8.