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BUS M&L 881 Winter '09 Schedule

Date Lecture Subject Readings Due

Jan 5 Course Overview and Intro to Forecasting

Jan 7 Intro to Time Series Approaches

Jan 12 Dealing with Trend & Seasonality

Jan 14 Forecasting

Forecasting in Practice / Demand Management #1, #2

Jan 19 MLK Day Holiday

Jan 21 Modeling Solution Methods - Heuristics, Optimization & Simulation #3, #4, #5Project

#1

Jan 26 Optimization: Formulating and Solving Integer Programs

Jan 28Introto

Modeling

Simulation: Concepts and Software (Demo)

Feb 2 EXAM 1 1:30-3:18 PM @ 305 GERLACH

Feb 4 Building Blocks

Feb 9 Vehicle Routing (issues, using the sweep and savings methods)

Feb 11 Routing&

Scheduling

Guest Lecture Topic TBAProject

#2

Feb 16 Facility Location (issues, grid methods, median problem)

Feb 18 The Next Step: Intro to Network Design

Feb 21 Guest Lecture from Logictools (To be confirmed)Project

#3

Feb 25 Lab @ Mason 345

Feb 27 Lab @ Mason 345

Mar 2 Open Lab @ Mason 345, 3:30-5:30 PM

Mar 4

NetworkModeling

Lab @ Mason 345 #6, #7, #8

Mar 9 Discuss Readings Project#4

Mar 11 Course Review

Mar 16 FINAL EXAM TBA

# Required Readings (see list on p. 3)


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BUS M&L 881 Course Readings

Forecasting #1 Demand Forecasting: Reality vs. Theory Steve Robeano

#2 The Demand Management Process Croxton, Lambeand Rogers

Intro toModeling

#3 Heuristics: Rules of Thumb for Logistics Decision Making Ballou

#4 Simulation in Logistics: A Review of Present Practice and a Look to theFuture

Bowersox & Clo

#5 Optimization Models for Logistics Decisions Powers

NetworkModeling

#6 Designing an Integrated Distribution System at DowBrands, Inc. Robinson, GaoMuggenborg

#7 Strategic Service Network Design for DHL Hong Kong Cheung, Leung

#8 Global Supply Chain Management at Digital Equipment Corporation Arntzen et al

Note: JBL is the Journal of Business Logistics

All articles (except #1, #2) can be found in the library or on-line. To find them on-line, go to the course wehttp://carmen.osu.edu. If you choose to access the articles through Business Source Complete go to http

click on "Research Databases", go to "B" and click on "Business Source Premier." From there you can cocombination of the author, the article title, or the journal title. Once you find the article, you should be abledownload the article in PDF format.


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BUS M&L 881 Optional Readings(On reserve in the Business Library)

Makridakis, Spyros G.; Wheelwright, Steven C.; and, Hyndman, Rob J. (1998), Forecasting Methods andApplications, 3

rded., John Wiley and Sons: New York, NY.

1. Chapter 2 Section 2/4: Measuring Forecast Error Section 2/5: Prediction Intervals Section 2/6: Least Square Estimates Section 2/7 : Transformations and Adjustments Appendix 2-A: Notation for Quantitative Forecasting Appendix 2-B: Summation Sign some rules.

2. Chapter 4 Exponential smoothing methods

Section 4/1: The Forecasting Scenario Section 4/2: Averaging Methods Section 4/3: Exponential Smoothing Section 4/4: A Comparison of Methods Section 4/5: General Aspects of Smoothing Methods

Ballou, Ronald H. (1992),Business Logistics Management, 3rd

ed., Prentice Hall Inc.: NJ.

3. Classic Time-Series Decomposition (pp. 125-130)

Lawrence, John A. Jr.; Pasternack, Barry A. (1998),Applied Management Science A Computer-Integrated

Approach for Decision Making, John Wiley and Sons: New York, NY.4. Chapter 9: Forecasting

5. Chapter 3: Linear Programming

6. Chapter 4: Linear Programming Applications

7. Chapter 5: Integer Linear Programming

8. Chapter 6: Network Models Section 6.4: The Traveling Salesman Problem Section 6.5: The Shortest Path Problem Section 6.6: The Minimal Spanning Tree Problem

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