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Jayant Rajgopal
1032 Benedum Hall
Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Tel. +1 412 624 9840
Fax +1 412 624 9831

rajgopal@pitt.edu

Production and Operations Analysis (7th Edition), by Steven Nahmias and Tava Lennon Olsen, Waveland Press, Long Grove, IL (2015).

You are required to print the handouts and other teaching materials to be found in the "Course Materials" section (it's all free!) and bring these to class with you every session.

1. Supply Chain Engineering, by Ravi Ravindran and Donald Warsing, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (2012).
   
2. Supply Chain Management (5th Edition), by Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl; Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, N.J. (2013).
3. Designing & Managing the Supply Chain (2nd Edition), by David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky and Edith Simchi-Levi; McGraw-Hill Irwin, New York, NY (2003).

This course provides an overview of Supply Chain Analysis with an emphasis on operations and a strong quantitative/analytical orientation.  Topics to be covered include a general introduction to operations analysis; supply chain strategies; sourcing decisions; demand forecasting; aggregate production planning; managing supply and demand; production and inventory control systems; dealing with uncertainty; distribution networks; transportation decisions; coordination & integration. Some topics may be deleted and other added depending on time constraints. 

NOTE: There’s really no single book that covers all the topics mentioned above to my satisfaction.  Students are therefore expected to attend lectures and make use of class notes, and to read books such as the references listed above.