Content of the course:

Methods:

  • Material Requirement Planning
  • Mixted integer programming: Modeling, branch and bound, linear relaxation, quality of formulation

Application's domain:

  • Production Planning
  • Picking 
  • Timetabling

Objectives of course:

Expected skills:

  • General understanding of the planning tasks along the supply chain.
  • General knowledge about the key problems encountered in various contexts of operations management: production planning, picking in warehouses, transport planning, timetabling
  • Being able to model some classical problems in production and operations management.

Knowing, understanding and knowing how to apply the methods:

  • Mixed Integer Linear Programming (assuming your know Linear Programming)
  • MRP methods
  • Modeling using graph theory