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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 MSCI101 and MSCI 221, 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.
At the end of this course students should be able to:1. Explain the relationship between ERP and MRP.2. Explain how Materials Requirements Planning systems work and demonstrate their usage.3. Explain the use of Just In Time systems and to be able develop a Kanban system for a new situation.4. Demonstrate different capacity planning techniques and explain their advantages and disadvantages.5. Demonstrate the use of appropriate scheduling techniques in different problem situations.6. Explain the principles underlying the Theory of Constraints and to apply them to a new problem situation.7. Explain how Distribution Requirements Planning works and how it is integrated into the Logistics system of an organisation.8. Describe the key elements of an organisation’s logistics system and demonstrate how key logistic decisions can be made. 9. Explain the key issues in implementing production planning and control systems.10. Describe the key issues that need to be considered when designing and implementing Supply Chains systems. 11. Demonstrate methods for controlling independent demand.The Learning ProcessIt 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 ResourcesThe material taught in this course comes primarily from the text by Jacobs 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 nominally every week. This is a time for you to check whether you understand the material presented in class 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. Since we do not have a formal meeting time, all students are encouraged to join a study group which will meet at a regular time during the week to discuss the QA questions allocated and their answers.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. This system can also be used to submit your tutorial answers before the tutorial, rather than handing in a copy at the tutorial.
(1) MSCI220 or MSCI270 or MGMT270; (2) MSCI221 or MSCI271 or MGMT271
MSCI321, MGMT371
MGMT371
Lectures: Virtual, delivered via LEARN - Nominally Thursday/Friday 1:10-2:00 pmTutorial: Virtual, material delivered via LEARN - Nominally Tuesday 1:10-2:00 pm
Ross James
Late AssignmentsAssignments 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.GradingYour final mark will be calculated after the raw marks have been standardised.
Jacobs, F. Robert; Manufacturing planning and control for supply chain management ; 6th ed; McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2011.
Note: The 5th Edition of the text can be used for this course.
Relationship to Other CoursesThis course is one of the four Stage Three Operations Management courses offered by Department of Management. It builds on the introductory material covered in MSCI 220 and MSCI 221. Other papers that are useful to complement an OM major are MSCI370, MSCI372, MSCI373 and MSCI302. Students taking MSCI, MGMT, ACIS and Engineering would also find this paper useful.Workload for this course, in terms of class preparation, review, assignments, readings and examination preparation is about 10 hours per week.Class RepresentativeA class representative may be asked to volunteer in the first few weeks of class. Any problems with the course can be raised with the class rep.The class representative will take up any issues raised by class members with the lecturer concerned as they occur. Departmental Academic Policies If you require 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 32 of the Enrolment Handbook 2011 (also in UC Calendar under “General Course and Examination Regulations”).Dishonest PracticeThe 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.IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.Coversheets - Group and Individual
Domestic fee $630.00
International fee $2,775.00
* 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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