Management 502

Pictures and Images

  • What is Operations Management?
  • Operations Strategy: A Model
  • The Operations Strategy Process
  • Just-in-Time: The Water and Rocks Analogy
  • An Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Example
  • Periodic Review Inventory Systems
    • Post Office Article:
    The following article is taken from OR/MS Today (December, 1996, pp. 38-42). The article provides an interesting description of some of the changes the post office is making to better deal with the huge volumes of mail which it processes. The article may prove helpful in discussing the post office case. To get the article, click on the appropriate page number below (pages 1-5).
    Powerpoint Materials
    Materials presented in class using Powerpoint are available in the following directory in ANY of the DePaul University student computer labs. To gain access, just go to one of the labs and use the file manager to go to that directory on the Q drive. You are then welcome to copy any of the files to your own disk, or use powerpoint to view the files directly on the screen.

    Q:\COMMERCE\MGT\KBOYER\PPT

    FILES (listed in order of use in class, but they may be changed somewhat before class is held):