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Modeling: Logistics
Instructor: Spyros Reveliotis
Office: Room 316, ISyE Bldng
tel #: (404) 894-6608
e-mail: spyros@isye.gatech.edu
homepage: www.isye.gatech.edu/~spyros
Course Logistics
TAs:
3103A: Siddhartha Maheshwary
3103B: Chayakrit Charoensiriwath
Homework: 25%
Midterm I: 20% (Tent. Date: Monday, February 16)
Midterm II: 20% (Tent. Date: Monday, March 29)
Final: 35% (Date: TBA)
Exams are closed-book, with 2 pages of notes per exam
Make-up exams and Incompletes: Only for very serious reasons, which are officially documented.
Reading Materials:
Course Textbook: Supply Chain Management by S. Chopra and P. Meindl, Prentice Hall, 2001.
Material posted at my homepage or the library electronic reserves
Course Objectives
(What is this course all about?)
How to design and run contemporary supply chains
A systematic description of the operations taking place in
contemporary supply chains
A conceptual characterization of the underlying design,
planning and control problems
An introduction to the mathematical models and tools that
can support the systematic analysis of the aforementioned
problems
Familiarization with the computational tools that can
support the implementation of the methodology presented
in class (mainly through homework assignments)
Wal-Mart
DC
Chemical
Manufacturer
Plastic
Producer
Tenneco
Packaging
Oil
Industry
Timber
Paper
Manufacturer
Industry
Wal-Mart
Store
Customer
Manufacturer
Distributor
Retailer
Customer
Supplier
Manufacturer
Distributor
Retailer
Customer
Supplier
Manufacturer
Distributor
Retailer
Customer
Material
Information
Funds
Stages
Customer
Replenishment Cycle
Distributor
Manufacturing Cycle
Manufacturer
Procurement Cycle
Supplier
Replenishment Cycle
All the processes involved in replenishing retailer inventory.
The primary objective: Replenish inventories at the retailer at
minimum cost, while providing a certain product availability to
the customer.
Major Phases:
Manufacturing Cycle
All processes involved in generating the product that will fill the
customer, retailer and distributor orders. It is driven by
the actual orders placed with the manufacturer,
forecasts for expected future demand, and
the current product availability in the manufacturers finished-product
warehouse.
Procurement Cycle
All the processes necessary to ensure that materials are available
for manufacturing to occur according to schedule.
Major Phases: similar to the cycle characterizing the interaction
between distributor and manufacturer.
However, demand is driven by the manufacturers production
schedule rather than more exogenous market factors / customer
behavior.
A problem break-down
Strategy or design issues: How to structure the supply chain (scope: years)
Logical configuration of the supply chain processes and their various operational cycles
Physical configuration of the supply chain
Location and Capacity of Production and Storage facilities
Transportation links and modes
Information technology (IT) infrastructure
Planning issues: Determining the operational policies that will drive the short-term decision making
(scope: months)
Operational issues: Implement the operating policies in the best possible manner (scope: shifts, days or
weeks)
Reading Assignment
Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3 from your textbook.