MAKERERE UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

LECTURE NOTES

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT / PRODUCTION PLANNING

AND CONTROL

BY

KACONCO JAMES
BSC ENGINEERING (MECHANICAL), Makerere University Kampala;
MTECH (IME), IIT KANPUR, INDIA
Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Productive System.
1.2 The Production / Operations Function
1.3 The Manufacturing Organization
1.4 Production Planning and Control
1.5 Lead Time and Manufacturing Strategies
1.6 Management Problems.
1.7 The frame work the Production Planning and Control System
1.8 Primary Topics in Production / Operations Management

Chapter 2
DEMAND MANAGEMENT
2.1 Demand Management in Production Planning and Control Systems
2.2 Demand Management Techniques
2.3 Strategies for Meeting Demand
2.4 Strategies for Managing Demand

Chapter 3
FORECASTING
3.1 Components of Forecasting Demand
3.2 Principles of Forecasting
3.3 Data Collection
3.4 Forecasting Methods
3.5 Forecast Accuracy

Chapter 4
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
4.1 The Elements of Inventory Management
4.2 Inventory Control Systems
4.3 Economic Order Quantity Models
4.4 Quantity Discounts
4.5 Reorder Point
4.6 Back Ordering
4.7 Batch Type Production Systems

Chapter 5
CAPACITY PLANNING AND AGGREGATE PRODUCTION PLANNING
5.1 Capacity Planning
5.2 Rough Cut Capacity Planning
5.3 Capacity Requirement Planning
5.4 Aggregate Production Planning
5.5 Aggregate Planning for Services
Chapter 6
MASTER PRODUCTION SCHEDULING
6.1 The Master Schedule.
6.2 The MPS in the Planning Hierarchy
6.3 Strategies for Developing a Production Plan
6.4 Creating a Level Production Plan
6.5 Creating a Chase Strategy Production Plan
6.6 The Master Production Schedule, Resources, and the Production Plan
6.7 The Preliminary MPS

Chapter 7
MATERIALS REQUIREMENT PLANNING (MRP)
7.1 Objectives and Applicability of MRP
7.2 MRP Inputs
7.3 The MRP Process
7.4 MRP Outputs
7.5 Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)

Chapter 8
PRODUCTION SCHEDULING
8.1 Scheduling Objectives
8.2 Loading
8.3 Sequencing
8.4 Monitoring
8.5 Finite Scheduling
8.6 Employee Scheduling

Chapter 9
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
9.1 Introduction.
9.2 Supply Chain Design.
9.3 The Global Supply Chain.
9.4 Purchasing and Suppliers.
9.5 Types of Facilities
9.6 Site Selection: Where to Locate
9.7 Location Analysis Techniques
9.8 Transportation and Distribution Systems
Chapter 10
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
10.1 Meaning of Quality
10.2 Total Quality Management
10.3 Strategic Implications of TQM
10.4 TQM in Service Companies
10.5 The Cost of Quality
10.6 The Effect of Quality Management on Productivity
10.7 Quality Improvement and the Role of Employees
10.8 Identifying Quality Problems and Causes

Chapter 11
PROCESS PLANNING, ANALYSIS AND REENGINEERING
11.1 Types of Processes
11.2 Process Planning
11.3 Process Analysis
11.4 Technology Decisions

Chapter 12
FACILITY LAYOUT
12.1 Basic layouts
12.2 Designing Process layouts
12.3 Designing Product layouts
12.4 Hybrid layouts

Chapter 13
HUMAN RESOURCE IN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
13.1 Human Resource in Strategic Planning Process
13.2 The Changing Nature of Human Resources Management
13.3 Contemporary Trends in Human Resources Management
13.4 Elements of Job design
13.5 Job Analysis
13.6 Work Measurement

Chapter 14
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
14.1 Elements of Project Management
14.2 The Gantt chart
14.3 CPM / PERT
14.4 Probabilistic Activity Times
14.5 Project Crashing and Time-Cost trade off.
Chapter 15
PRODUCT AND SERVICE DESIGN
15.1 Strategy and design
15.2 The Design Process
15.3 Improving the design Process
15.4 Technology in Design
15.5 Service Design

Chapter 16
JUST IN TIME SYSTEMS (JIT)
16.1 Basic elements of JIT
16.2 Benefits of JIT
16.3 JIT Implementation
16.4 JIT in services

Recommended Books:

1. Operations Management Sustainability and Supply Chain Management by

Jay Heizer and Barry Render, 2014
2. Operations Management by William J. Stevenson, 2010
3. Operations Management by S. Anil Kumar and N. Suresh, 2009
4. Production and Operations Management by S. Anil Kumar and N. Suresh,
2008

Other References Recommended

1. QM / POM for Windows version 5.2
2. IIT Roorkee Operations Management Lecture series (YouTube) Dr.
Inderdeep Singh 2018