Analysis of Inventory Systems, Class Activities
21 activities, most of them worked by hand on the printed PDF ·
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Ch 1
Introduction to Inventory Systems
Keeping the state
Work in pairs. 25 minutes.
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Which costs move?
Work in threes. 20 minutes.
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Ch 2
Managing Inventory
ABC by hand, then by a second criterion
Work in pairs. 20 minutes.
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The cycle count
Work in pairs. 20 minutes.
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Ch 3
Deterministic Lot Sizing
Drawing one cycle
Work in pairs. 20 minutes.
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Taking the discount
Work in pairs. 20 minutes.
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Ch 4
Multi-Item and Constrained Systems
Bisecting the multiplier
Work in pairs. 20 minutes.
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Building the exchange curve as a class
Work in pairs, then as a class. 20 minutes.
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Ch 5
Dynamic Lot Sizing
Wagner-Whitin on six periods
Work in pairs. 25 minutes.
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The heuristic race, then the rolling horizon
Work in threes. 20 minutes.
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Ch 6
Material and Distribution Requirements Planning
The spindle housing's record
Work in pairs. 14 minutes.
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Exploding the blade assembly
Groups of three. 20 minutes.
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Ch 7
Single-Period Stochastic Inventory
The last elbow, by marginal analysis
Work in pairs. 20 minutes.
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The newsvendor game
Work in threes. 25 minutes.
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Ch 8
Continuous and Periodic Review Systems
Watching an (r, Q) item
Work in pairs. 20 minutes.
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Evaluating a policy from the Poisson table
Work in pairs. 25 minutes.
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Ch 9
Multi-Echelon Inventory Systems
From the pipeline to the base stock
Work in pairs. 20 minutes.
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Spend the budget
Work in threes. 25 minutes.
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Ch 10
Multi-Echelon Systems with Batch Ordering
Two locations by hand
Work in pairs. 25 minutes.
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What a larger hub batch does
Work in pairs, with Chapter10Models.xlsx. 20 minutes.
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Ch 11
Simulating Inventory Systems
Two policies under common random numbers
Code-along, laptops, in pairs. 30 minutes.
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