Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics

Department of Business Administration

Chair of Production and Operations Management
(Lehrstuhl für Produktion und Logistik)
o. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Richard F. Hartl
Univ. Prof. Dr Karl Dörner

 040051 KFK PM/SCM/TL: 

Seminar A (E)
4 ECTS points

"Losgrößenplanung"

Lecturer

Dates & Places

  • Tuesday 16:45-18:15 SE 1
  • Starting on March  1, 2016

Study Programs

  • Mag. internationale Betriebswirtschaft (KFK Production Management,  KFK SupplyChain Management, KFK Transportation Logistics)
  • Mag. Betriebswirtschaft (KFK Production Management,  KFK Supply Chain Management, KFK Transportation Logistics)
  • partly also KFK Operations Research
  • QEM - Quantitative Economics Master

Course Content

  • This course (Seminar) will focus on "Litsizing (Losgrößenplanung)."
  • Basic models and approaches from the literature will be discussed and some recent research articles will be presented. 

Requirements

  • Regular presence and participation in discussion
  • Literature study
  • Presentation using slides (power Point or PDF)
  • Term paper (Seminararbeit)

Prerequisites

  • This course (Seminar) is intended as the final course in a KFK. Thus, it should only be taken after some other courses in the corresponding area have been successfully completed.
  • The topic is related to "Production Management", but it is not necessary, that the corresponding KFK course has been taken before. 
  • Minimum requirement for admission is
    • "Transportation Logistics (TL)", "Production Analysis", or "Supply Chain Management" (current "Studienplan")

Basic Literature  

  • Drexl, A., Kimms, A.: Lot Sizing and Scheduling - Survey and Extensions. In: European Journal of Operational Research (1997) 99 , S. 221-235.   (download via moodle)

Schedule "Würfelteil"

  • The first part of the course is a so called "Würfelseminar", i.e. certain topics are to be prepared by all participants. Every 10 minutes, say, a different person will be asked (at random -> Würfel) to present the next pages of the underlying literature. The purpose is
        (i) to obtain some common knowledge base by all participants, and 
        (ii) to facilitate discussion.
  • Literature for the "Würfelseminar": see "basic literature" above
Tentative schedule: 
  • March 1 , 2016introductory session
  • March 8, 2016:  basic literature 
  • March 15,2016 basic literature
  • April 12 , 2016: basic literature
  • May 31, 2016 : presentation
  • June 21, 2016: presentation
  • June 28, 2016 presentation

Schedule "Spezialteil"

In the second part each group of typically 2 participants will be given a special topic which has to be prepared and presented some weeks later (mainly in June). Also a term paper (Seminararbeit) must be written on this topic.







Term paper (Seminararbeit)

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