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2010-2011 University Catalog

EEP 608 - Optimization of Supply Chains

Credits: 3
Focuses on supply chain optimization from enterprise-wide perspective, and supply chain optimization from business-to-business e-commerce perspective. Explores optimizing value of goods and services and assuring reasonable return on such sales. Describes heuristic and exact algorithms for scheduling, production, inventory management, logistics, and distribution. Presents new software that enables such optimization, and new techniques to handle risk, quality of data, and robustness of solutions. Outlines manufacturing and service examples from public and private sectors. Students perform case studies using state-of-art software.

Prerequisites
MATH 203 and 213, and graduate standing.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0