Supply Materials Management
Overview
1. The Master Scheduling concept and its relationship to Production Plans
a. Master Production Schedule process
b. Rough-cut capacity planning
2. Material Requirements Planning
a. MRP objectives, roles and process
b. Basic MRP techniques
c. Bills of Material, their formats and use
d. MRP management
3. Capacity definitions and concept
a. Capacity Requirement Plan (CRP) and its inputs
b. Loading
c. Production Activity Control
d. Theory of Constraints and Drum-Buffer-Rope scheduling
4. Factors influencing product and process development
a. Make-or-buy decision
b. Purchasing
c. Supply Risk and Profit Impact Model
d. Suppliers selection and management
5. Inventory classification
a. Aggregate and item inventory management methodologies
b. Independent and dependent demand
c. Inventory valuation methods
d. Inventory audits
6. Inventory costs
a. ABC classification
b. Order quantities and methodologies
c. Lot-size decision rules
d. Order Point System
e. Safety stock
f. Periodic Review System
g. Lean production impact on inventory
Interactive lectures and case analysis
Group case project 20 - 30%
Assignments 15 - 20%
Participation 0 - 10%
Midterm 20 - 25%
Final 25 - 35%
Note: Students must achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined examination components to pass the course.
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
After completing this course, successful students will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding and use the supply chain and materials management terminology and concepts;
- Apply Master Scheduling and the Master Production Schedule (MPS);
- Determine requirements and keep priorities current using Material Requirement Planning (MRP) and Bills of Material;
- Apply Theory of Constraints (TOC), capacity planning and Production Activity Control (PAC);
- Use the technique of Backward scheduling;
- Analyze and apply measures of efficiency and utilization;
- Apply inventory management techniques including inventory valuation using financial statements, performance measures and inventory audits, lot-size and safety stock decision rules, ABC classification, and aggregate and item inventory methodologies;
- Evaluate make-or-buy decisions and purchasing and supplier relations, and
- Analyze factors affecting product and process development.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students:
Arnold, J.R. Tony, S.N. Chapman, and L.M. Clive, Introduction to Materials Management. Latest Edition (Pearson Prentice Hall)
and Stevenson W. J., M. Hojati, Operations Management. Latest Edition (McGraw-Hill)
or any alternative textbook/s approved by the Business Department
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
Institution | Transfer Details for BUSN 3386 |
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Athabasca University (AU) | AU MGSC 3XX (3) |
Capilano University (CAPU) | CAPU IBUS 3XX (3) |
College of the Rockies (COTR) | COTR MGMT 3XX (3) |
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) | No credit |
Northern Lights College (NLC) | No credit |
Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
University Canada West (UCW) | UCW BUSI 2XX (3) |
University of Northern BC (UNBC) | UNBC COMM 3XX (3) |
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) | UFV BUS 3XX (3) |
University of Victoria (UVIC) | UVIC COM 3XX (1.5) |
Course Offerings
Winter 2025
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
16167
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Wed | Instructor Last Name
Dickens
Instructor First Name
Charles
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Course Status
Open
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BUSN 3386 002 - This section is restricted to Business Management Diplomas, BBA Management, PBD International & PDD Supply Chain Management, and PBD Advanced Human Resources Management until Monday, December 02, 2024, at 9:00 am.
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
17281
|
Wed | Instructor Last Name
Dickens
Instructor First Name
Charles
|
Course Status
Open
|
BUSN 3386 003 - This section is restricted to Business Management Diplomas, BBA Management, PBD International & PDD Supply Chain Management, and PBD Advanced Human Resources Management until Monday, December 02, 2024, at 9:00 am.