ELEARNING PORTAL LAGOS CITY POLYTECHNIC

PROGRAMME: Higher National Diploma in Business Administration and Management

COURSE TITLE: Production Management 2

COURSE CODE: BAM 325

CREDIT HOURS: 3 HOURS A WEEK

LECTURER: OBADIPE A.J.

PROGRAMME GOAL: This course is intended to expose students to the role and application of management science techniques to   production for the attainment of optimum allocation and                                              utilization of resources

OBJECTIVES:

At the end of this course, the students should be able to:

  • Know the concepts, meaning and nature of production management
  • Know the objectives and problems of inventory management
  • Understand the importance of work study and work measurements in production control
  • Understand the applications of work analysis in production management
  • Understand the role of purchasing in production
  • Understand the meaning and methods of production planning and application.
  • Understand the application of transportation and assignment models
  • Understand the need for, and methods of quality control in production management

 

COURSE OUTLINES

Chapter 1: MEANING OF PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

1.1       Introduction

1.2       Function of Production Department

1.3       The interaction between production and other functional areas of business organization.

1.4       Organization or Production function

1.5       Ways of organizing production function

1.6       Feedback and control

1.7       Components of feedback and control

1.8       Types of feedback and control

1.9       Merits of feedback and control

1.10     Demerit of feedback and control

1.11     Assignments

1.12     Quizzes

 

Chapter 2: INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

2.1       Introduction

2.2       Reasons for Keeping Inventory

2.3       Cost Associated with Inventory

2.4       Inventory Modelling

2.5       (EOQ) Deterministic Inventory Modelling

2.6       Limitations of The EOQ Model

2.7       Factors in Inventory Control

2.8       Probabilistic Inventory Model

2.9       Statistical Quality Control

2.10     Assignments

2.11     Quizzes

Chapter 3: WORK STUDY AND WORK MEASUREMENT

3.1       Introduction

3.2       Objectives of Work Study

3.3       Method Study

3.4       Labour Standard

3.5       Types of Labour Standards

3.6       Performance Rating:

3.7       Importance of performance rating

3.8       Criteria used by Performance Rating in assessing employees

3.9       Methods used in Measuring Labour Standards.

3.10     Methodostudy

3.11     Work measurement

3.12     Assignments

3.13     Quizzes

 

Chapter 4: NETWORK ANALYSIS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

4.1       Network Analysis

4.2       Difference Between Event and Activity

4.3       Critical Time, Critical Path and Slack Time

4.4       Project Management

4.5       Objectives of Project Management

4.6       Comparism Between Project Management and Other Form Production And Operation Management

4.7       Tools for Project Management

4.8       Project Evaluation Review Technique

4.9       Aggregate Planning

4.10     Assignments

4.11     Quizzes

Chapter 5: PURCHASING AND MATERIAL MANAGEMENT

5.1       Introduction

5.2       Objectives of Purchasing

5.3       Elements of Purchasing

5.4       Importance of Purchasing Department

5.5       Purchasing Procedures

5.6       Types of Purchases Relevant to Production

5.7       Storage and Warehousing.

5.8       Methods of Distributing Goods

5.9       Materials Management

5.10     Assignments

5.11     Quizzes

 

Chapter 6: PRODUCTION PLANNING AND ITS APPLICATON IN FORECASTING

6.1       Introduction

6.2       Forecasting

6.3       Forecasting Techniques

6.4       Weighted Moving Average

6.5       Exponential Smoothing

6.6       Production Planning and Control

6.7       Importance of Production Planning and Control

6.8       Problems of Production Planning & Control

6.9       Assignments

6.10     Quizzes

 

 

Chapter 7: APPLICATION OF TRANSPORTATION AND ASSIGNMENT MODELS

7.1       Transportation Model

7.2       The Transportation Models

7.3       Approaches to Solving Transportation Problems

7.4       Vogel Approximation Method (VAM)

7.5       Assignments

7.6       Quizzes

 

Chapter 8: QUALITY CONTROL

8.1       Introduction

8.2       Customer-Driven Definition of Quality

8.3       Quality as a Competitive Weapon

8.4       Quality Control Procedures

8.5       Benchmarking

8.6       How to measure quality

8.7       Objectives of quality control

8.8       Methods of quality control

8.9       Types of Quality Control

8.10     Cost Control

8.11     Concept of Sampling Plan, O.C Curve, F-Chart And Z-Chart

8.12     Assignments

8.13     Quizzes

 

Review Questions

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