IE 406Prereq: IE 320 and MTH 309
IE 406: Production Planning and Scheduling
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- Forecasting, aggregate planning, MRP/ERP systems, inventory management, job shop scheduling, sequencing heuristics, and lean manufacturing principles.
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- Industrial and Systems Engineering
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- Chi Zhou
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