Maricopa Community Colleges  MGT102   19942-20035 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 11/23/93
MGT102 19942-20035 LEC 2 Credit(s) 2 Period(s)
Introduction to Materials Management
Overview of control and flow of materials from the supplier to the consumer. Elements and interrelationships of the supply chain including supply management, manufacturing planning and control, and physical distribution. Prerequisites: None.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
MGT102   19942-20035 Introduction to Materials Management
1. Define the scope and benefits of the materials management approach to the control and flow of materials from the supplier through production and distribution to the consumer. (I)
2. Explain the differences between Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Closed-Loop MRP, and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRPII). (II)
3. Compare and contrast a make-to-stock, make-to-order, and an assemble-to-order environment and their impact on the master production scheduling function. (III)
4. Define the objectives, requirements, and process of materials requirements planning. (IV)
5. Describe the differences between resource planning, rough-cup capacity planning, capacity requirements planning, and capacity (input/output) control. (V, VI)
6. Explain the purchasing functions and process and their relationship with other business functions. (VII, VIII)
7. Define inventory management and inventory control and the objectives and elements of each. (IX)
8. Compare and contrast the differences between the order point, periodic review, and material requirements planning ordering systems. (X, XI)
9. Explain the important interfaces between physical distribution, marketing, and production. (XII, XIII)
10. List the elements of just-in-time and how it fits within the traditional production and inventory control sytems. (XIV)
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MGT102   19942-20035 Introduction to Materials Management
    I. Introduction
        A. Supply-production-distribution system
        B. What is materials management
          1. Manufacturing planning and control
          2. Inputs to the manufacturing planning and control system
          3. Physical supply/distribution
        C. Manufacturing systems
          1. Line flow manufacturing
          2. Intermittent manufacturing
          3. Project planning
      II. Production planning system
          A. Manufacturing planning and control system
            1. Business plan
            2. Production plan
            3. Master production schedule
            4. Material requirements plan (MRP)
            5. Purchasing and production activity control
            6. Capacity management
          B. Manufacturing resource planning (MRPII)
          C. Making the production plan
        III. Master production scheduling
            A. Relationship to production plan
            B. Developing a master production schedule-varied environment
            C. Production planning, master production scheduling, and sales
          IV. Material requirements planning
              A. Nature of demand
              B. Objectives of MRP
              C. Bills of material
              D. Material requirements planning process
              E. Using the material requirements plan
            V. Capacity management
                A. Capacity management
                  1. Planning levels
                  2. Other
                B. Available capacity
                C. Required capacity
                D. Capacity requirements planning
                E. Making the plan
              VI. Production activity control
                  A. Date requirements
                    1. Planning files
                    2. Control files
                  B. Order Preparation
                  C. Scheduling
                  D. Load leveling
                  E. Scheduling bottlenecks
                  F. Implementation
                  G. Control
                    1. Input/output control
                    2. Priority control
                    3. Priority rules
                  H. Production reporting
                VII. Purchasing
                    A. Purchasing and profit leverage
                    B. Purchasing objectives
                    C. Purchasing cycle
                    D. Establishing specifications
                    E. Functional specification description
                    F. Selecting suppliers
                    G. Price determination
                      1. Basis for pricing
                      2. Price negotiation
                  VIII. Forecasting
                      A. Characteristics of demand
                      B. Principle of forecasting
                      C. Collection and preparation of data
                      D. Forecasting techniques
                        1. Qualitative techniques
                        2. Casual techniques
                        3. Quantitative techniques
                      E. Tracking the forecast
                    IX. Inventory fundamentals
                        A. Inventory and the flow of material
                        B. Supply and demand patterns
                        C. Functions of inventories
                        D. Objectives of inventory management
                          1. Customer service
                          2. Operating efficiency
                        E. Inventory costs
                        F. ABC inventory control
                      X. Order quantities
                          A. Lot size decision rules
                          B. Economic order quantity
                          C. Variations of the EOQ Model
                          D. Quantity discounts
                          E. Use of EOQ when costs are not known
                        XI. Independent demand ordering systems
                            A. Order point system
                            B. Determining safety stock
                            C. Determining service levels
                            D. Different forecast and lead time intervals
                            E. Determining when the order point is reached
                            F. Periodic review system
                            G. Material requirements planning ordering system
                          XII. Physical distribution
                              A. Physical distribution system
                              B. Interfaces
                              C. Transportation
                              D. Legal types of carriage
                              E. Transportation cost elements
                              F. Total transportation costs
                              G. Transportation costs and the total system
                            XIII. Warehousing and distribution inventory
                                A. Warehousing
                                  1. Types of warehouses
                                  2. Objectives of warehousing
                                  3. Warehouse activities
                                  4. Cube utilization and accessibility
                                  5. Stock location
                                  6. Order picking and assembly
                                B. Packaging
                                C. Distribution inventory
                                D. Material handling
                                E. Multiwarehouse systems
                              XIV. Just-in-time manufacturing
                                  A. Philosophy
                                  B. Waste
                                  C. Environment
                                  D. Manufacturing planning and control
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