Manufacturing Systems Management

MGMT-6450

An overview of how product and service requirements are translated into manufacturing facilities, procedures, and organizations. The control systems considered include demand forecasting, inventory planning, production scheduling, quality control, MRP, and project control. In addition, a management perspective is used to examine decisions having a long–term manufacturing impact: capacity planning, location, and distribution, manufacturing processes, factory layout, and factory focus. The course concludes with an introduction to manufacturing policy. A student cannot receive credit for both the graduate and undergraduate versions of this course.

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