C O U R S E  O U T L I N E

The course is taught concurrently for MGMT 6130 and ITM 6130. The course content, requirements, schedule, project, and tests are the same for both courses.

COURSE CONTENT

Enterprise Resource Planning: Principles and Applications

Aggregate Planning

Aggregate production planning: purpose, elements of planning, relevant costs, and planning strategies. Applying aggregate planning techniques. Aggregate planning in service. Using Excel spreadsheets to develop and evaluate aggregate plans.

ERP: Master Scheduling 

Master demand and master production schedules (MDS and MPS). Creating bill of materials: concepts and applications. Indented bill of materials. Desegregation techniques of master scheduling. Managing the master schedule. 

Applying the Oracle ERP system to develop inventory records, bill of materials, sourcing rules and supply chain bill, forecasting, and master demand schedule.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Bring the students up-to-date with the modern concepts and applications of planning resources utilizing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
• Develop student skills in applying methods and techniques of supply chain planning and operations scheduling.
• Teach students to apply ERP software including the Oracle ERP system in supply chain planning and scheduling of enterprise resources

TEXT

• Operations and Supply Management, by F. Robert Jacobs, Richard. Chase, and Nicholas J. Aquilano, McGraw Hill Irwin, 12th Edition, 2009
• Gerald, B., King, N., and Natchek, D. Oracle E-Business Suite Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill, 2006 (optional textbook, not required).

SOFTWARE

• Oracle E-business Suite (ERP System), Release 12 (the students will be given passwords to login to CSUEB Oracle ERP system). 
• Microsoft Excel

SCHEDULE

REQUIRED ASSIGNMENTS

The case studies will be presented by the instructor during the class sessions.

PROJECT

• The term project is due on  December 3. The project requirements will be discussed at the  second class sessions.    

• Each student is expected to read the required chapters and lecture materials before the class meeting and be ready to discuss them during the class sessions.

• The case studies will be assigned during the class sessions. Group  discussions of the case studies are welcome.

• The submission of the case studies should be done individually.

• A case study report submitted for grading should be typed with about two-four double-spaced pages plus (if applied) appendices, computer printouts, charts, and graphs.

• When submitting case study reports, please underline or highlight the important parts of your solutions.

• No late homework will be accepted. No make-up exams will be given.

• The above assignments and/or due dates are sometime subject to change. Any change will be announced in class.

GENERAL INFORMATION

GRADING SYSTEM

The final grade in the course will be based on the maximum of 500 points with the following breakdown:

• Four case studies handed in, 50 points maximum each, for a total of 200 points. 
• Term project, 100 points maximum.
• Two exam (midterm and final), 100 points maximum each, for a total of 200 points.

The final grades will be as following:

• "A"--460 points and up (92% and up)

• "A-"--435-459 points

• "B+"--420-434 points

• "B"--400-419 points (80% and up)

• "B-"--385-399 points

• "C+"--370-384 points

• "C"--350-369 points (70% and up)

• "C-"--335-349 points

• "D+"--320-334 points

• "D"--300-319 points

• "F"--below 300 points.