M.Phil.-Ph.D. Programme Area III: Engineering Management

SEG 5420 Scheduling and Sequencing
SEG 5430 Optimal Production Planning
SEG 5480 Operations Management Strategy
SEG 5600 Logistics and Transporation Planning
SEG 5610 Inventory and Supply Chain Management
SEG 5630 Stochastic Inventory and Revenue Management

SEG 5420 Scheduling and Sequencing

Classification of scheduling and sequencing problems. Sequencing involving capacity expansion. Single machine scheduling involving due dates: problem formulation and applications, complexity, exact solutions and approximate solutions. Parallel machine scheduling. Flowshop scheduling. Job shop scheduling. Batch scheduling with set-up times between batches

SEG 5430 Optimal Production Planning

Overview of manufacturing system: resources constraints, cost, planning horizon, and objective of production planning. Deterministic production planning; parallel machine systems, flowshops and jobshops. Dynamic programme equations, zero-inventory policy. Capacity expansion and HMMS model. Stochastic production planning: unreliable machines, Markov Chains, Akella-Kumar theorem and threshold-type policy. Hierarchical production planning.

SEG 5480 Engineering Management Strategy

The course introduces students to the basics of strategic management. All aspects of strategic planning tools and techniques, strategy formulation and decision making, and implementation and control are covered. Topics include SWOT analysis, forecasting models, decision methodology, project planning, implementation, and evaluation, team building and communication. Integration of business function such as finance, human resources, marketing, and production and operations is emphasized.

SEG 5600 Logistics and Transportation Planning

Global logistics management. Facility location models. Network design. Transportation Planning: mode selection, routing and scheduling. Transportation and transshipment problems. Vehicle routing models. Fleet management. Less-than-truckload deliveries. Warehouse layout and management. The lotsize / inventory / transportation tradeoff. Enabling technologies for logistics management.

SEG 5610 Inventory and Supply Chain Management

Strategic importance of inventory management. Inventory model for constant demand: economic order quantity. Time varying demand models. Co-ordinated replenishment for multiple items. Enterprise resources planning. Multi-echelon inventory management:constant and time varying demand models. Push and pull systems. Coordination and incentive issues in a supply chain. The value of information. Strategic partnering and product design for supply chain management.

SEG 5630 Stochastic Inventory and Revenue Management

This course is to equip students with the skills that enable them to formulate and analyse stochastic inventory and revenue management models. The fundamental concepts, methods, and results are presented, with an emphasis on the foundation of dynamic optimization. The topics in inventory management include the classical [r.Q] / [s.S] models, and multi-echelon systems, and those in revenue management include dynamic pricing and booking controls and choice models.