The objectives of this course are to provide basics in production planning, scheduling and the integration of production planning with other decisions such as inventory routing and scheduling. The goal is to learn how to model practical production planning and scheduling problems and how to solve them using operational research approaches (Lagrangian relaxation, heuristics ...). The goal is also to understand how Advanced Planning Systems (APS) work. A lecture is devoted to the production of healthcare services.
The objective is also to provide some basic insights on how transportation and distribution can be designed and optimised. It will propose academic material on some important issues in distribution planning: vehicle routing and warehousing.
The course will be evaluated through a mini-project, where students will face a realistic problematic and will have to develop a decision-making tool.
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| Individual oral exam: | 50 | % | Group presentation: | % | |
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| Type of teaching activity | Content, sequencing and organisation |
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| Lecture | Introduction to Production planning Advanced production planning models Distribution and vehicle routing Production planning and scheduling, production planning and inventory routing Production scheduling Production of healthcare services Warehousing |