COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
END 3903 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Industrial Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALI SERDAR TAŞAN

Offered to

Industrial Engineering

Course Objective

To provide an understanding of fundamentals of inventory and materials management and how to model and solve various inventory problems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to define the principles of inventory management
2   Ability to determine inventory costs
3   Ability to model inventory problems
4   Ability to solve inventory problems
5   Ability to use current approaches to inventory management

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to inventory management
2 Introduction to inventory management
3 Independent demand systems
4 Independent demand systems
5 Independent demand systems
6 Independent demand systems
7 Discrete demand systems: Deterministic models
8 Discrete demand systems: Deterministic models
9 Discrete demand systems: Deterministic models
10 Mid-Term Exam
11 Independent demand systems: Probabilistic models
12 Dependent demand systems
13 Presentations
14 Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Principle of Inventory and Materials Management, Richard J. Tersine, Prentice Hall, 1994

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Instructor notes will be given using blackboard and visual presentations. Additionally, it will be further supported by homework and student presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm (25%) + Assignments (25%) + Final Exam (50%)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Tel: 301 76 19, e-mail: serdar.tasan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 3 33
Tutorials 1 3 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 102

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.1533
LO.243
LO.34544
LO.4454
LO.53