BA 353:
Operations Management {Spring 2020}
General Course Material:
- Syllabus (Revised with
corrected dates!)
- Canvas
- Ska
Canning Line – this is Operations in action!
Tutors:
·
Cameron
Flann, Tu/Th from 8am to 10:00am on Zoom or by appointment, cmflann@fortlewis.edu
·
Daniel
Cluff, Tu/Th from 11am to 1pm on Zoom or by appointment, dwcluff@fortlewis.edu
Topic 4: Project Management:
- ICE 6
- Chapter:
Project Management -- Available on
Canvas.
Online Class Material:
Goals for the five weeks of online class:
1.
Learn more
about Project Management, including crashing – how to speed up a project at
minimum cost – and simulating a project to factor in that real project
activities don’t always finish exactly according to schedule.
2.
Learn more
about Simulation in general with a couple of examples.
3.
Learn the basics
of Inventory Control including the EOQ Model.
Notes:
·
Video Greeting from Dr.
Huggins
·
Explanation of Grading System for the rest
of the term.
·
Explanation of Grading System for the rest of the
term, part 2.
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Office Hours
o
I will post official Zoom office hours soon. I’m thinking about MWF from 10am to noon and from
5pm to 6pm (cocktail hour!). from 4pm to 5pm (no one was using the 5pm to
6pm time).
o
My Zoom meeting address has been moved to Canvas to
help prevent Zoom bombing. Look it up.
o
I will answer text [(970) 946-9077] and email
[huggins_e@fortlewis.edu] questions ASAP.
o
I should also be able to hold Zoom meetings at most
other times of the day if I’m not in the middle of doing something else, and I
quite literally have nothing else to do most of the time. Contact me via text or email and we’ll work
out a mutually agreeable time.
Online
Week 1
·
Online Class Activity 1: Respond to email that I sent on 3/23/20 so
that I know that you’re OK out there somewhere!
You will get credit just for responding to a few straightforward
questions. Due:
4/3/20.
·
Online
Class Activity 2. Due: 4/3/20.
- Crashing Handout and Online Class
Activity 3 Due 4/10/20 but start now!!!
- Notes on how to solve crashing problem
on first page of above document.
- See the Project
Management chapter on Canvas to learn about crashing.
- Zoom Videos for
crashing.
- Video 1: Intro
- Video 2: Part a) of crashing handout
- Video 3: Part b) of crashing handout
- Video 4: Part c) of crashing handout
- Crashing Example from
Class with Solver
- Video 5:
Solving crashing problem with
Solver
Online
Week 2
Simulation:
·
Online Class Activity 4 and accompanying
spreadsheet. Due 4/10/20.
o
Video 1
o
Video 2
o
Video 3
o
Video 4
·
Online
Class Activity 5. Due 4/10/20.
·
Online
Class Activity 6. Due 4/17/20.
Online
Week 3
·
Online Class Activity 7 and Inventory Simulation. Due 4/17/20.
·
Online Class Activities 8 and 9. Due 4/24/20.
Online
Week 4
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OCA 10 and Inventory/EOQ handout. Due Wednesday 4/22/20, note non-Friday deadline!!!
o
Inventory Cheat Sheet A and Video A (Hopefully fixed this video to where
I share the screen correctly.)
o
Inventory Cheat Sheet B and Video B
o
Inventory Cheat Sheet C and Video C
§
Video C got cut off just at
the end, been having internet connection issues. Wanted to post it ASAP so all that’s missing
at the end is going over the last two calculations, you’ll figure them out, you
got this!
·
OCAs 11 and 12. Due
4/24/20.
Online
Week 5
·
Take Home Exam 3 (30 points). Due Friday 5/1/20.
This is it – complete this exam and submit it on Canvas and you are done
with the course. Congrats! It wasn’t easy going online for me, I imagine
it may have been even more difficult for you as a student. You may work together (remotely) on this one,
but please submit only your own work.
The deadline is firm since I need to get final grades in two days later.
o Note: I made a few minor changes to problem
1). They will not affect your answer if
you already did this one, but if you were a little confused they may clear some
things up.
Exam 1 Material:
·
Take Home Exam 1: StoneAge Data (Due on
Friday 2/7 by 2:30pm)
·
In Class Exam 1: Your choice
to take on Wednesday 2/5 or Friday 2/7 at 9:05am (EBH 061) or at 1:25pm (EBH
108).
·
In
Class Key, Take Home Key
Notes: Week 1,
M 1/20: Finish DA Example A),
Expected Value, Do DA Example B) on MS Excel, W 1/22: EVPI & Minimax
Regret, F 1/24: ICE 2, Week 3
Intro to OM:
· Chapter: Intro to OM -- Available on Canvas.
Topic 1: Decision Analysis
- Should American Airlines expand to DRO?, YES!
Old
Article and New
Article
- Decision
Analysis Intro and HW2
- Homework 2 Comments: For problem 1),
the answer is 180 pounds for $99.50 and for problem 2), the answer is 2
rafts for $10,200.
- Chapter: DA -- click link or find on
Canvas.
- Excel Version of Problem B
- ICE
2
- Break Even Analysis Example
·
Minimax Regret:
o Videos
and Wikipedia Example
Decision Analysis Extra
Credit
Topic 2: Forecasting
- Chapter: FC -- This chapter is available on
Canvas.
- Forecasting Spreadsheet with Notes
- Practice (Only click this link to
check your answers. No peeking!)
- ICE 3
- Seasonality Handout, Seasonality Spreadsheet
Exam 2 Material:
· Take Home Exam 1.5, Ska Data (Due on Monday 3/2)
o Key, Excel
· Take Home Exam 2 (Due on Friday 3/6)
o Key, Excel
· In Class Exam 2 will be on Friday 3/6.
· No Class on Monday 3/2. This will be a “hybrid” day. Two assignments will be due (THE1.5 and HW3) and you may use this day to complete other assignments too.
Notes:
Week 5: Return E1, Linear Programming Examples A) and B), Week 6: More LP, ICE 4,
Weeks 7 & 8: Complete four assignments, Exam 2 on F 3/6, M 3/9: Return
Exams, Work on HW 4, W 3/11: Intro
to Project Management/CPM, F 3/13: ICE 6 and HW 4 due.
Topic 3: Linear Programming:
- Chapter: LP -- Click on this link or find
this chapter on Canvas.
- Linear Programming Handout and Homework 3 Skip the last two problems for now!! (HW 3 is due on
Monday 3/2)
- LP Solver Example
A)
- ICE
4
- Example C)
- Hard LPs, Gasoline example from class with Excel Answer
- ICE 5: Two ways to get credit
for this one: Easy Way – be in
class on Friday 2/21 working on these assignments, automatic 10/10. More Challenging Way – you can skip
class on Friday but you must solve either Hard LP 5 from the handout or
solve problem 16 or 18 from the online chapter. And by “solve” I mean show me the final
answer and it must be correct! Good
luck.
- HW 4: Solve at least four of the Hard LPs –
either from the Hard LP handout (excluding number 1 that we did in class)
or the last two problems of HW 3, 16 and 18. You may work together on this assignment
in groups of up to three students.
Print out your LP models with answers from Solver. Extra
Credit for every additional problem you solve. (Due on Friday
3/63/13)
Topic 4: Project Management:
- ICE 6
- Chapter:
Project Management -- Available on
Canvas.