Advanced Planning in Produktion and Logistics
Content
Steadily growing customer requirements, such as the need for short delivery times with high quality and individual customer requirements despite mass production, present manufacturing companies with ever more complex planning problems. In order to meet these wishes and yet generate the optimum in added value, companies are forced to continuously improve their internal processes. The high complexity of and dependencies between individual planning processes of a company are major challenges. In order to meet these challenges, Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems (APSs) are increasingly being used to control corporate processes.
Educational objectives
The aim of the lecture is the communication of current and practical issues in the field of "Advanced Planning and Scheduling". One focus is on mathematical models of the various planning levels and the coordination of hierarchically structured planning processes through communication between the planning levels. The students should be able to handle complex planning problems based on hierarchical planning processes and to analyze practical planning problems on a scientific and management level.
Organisatorial information
- 2 SWS lecture + 2 SWS tutorial
- 5 CP
- Language: German
- Summer term
Type of exam: depending on the size of the class: written exam (60 minutes; 100%) or written exam (60 minutes; 85%) & written homework (15%) or written exam (85%) & presentation (15%). Registration via RWTH-online is now possible.
audience: MSc BWL, MSc WIBau, MSc WIEET, MSc WIWPT, MSc WIMB, MSc Wiwi
Important information
The event will be held in the firsthalf of the 2021 summer semester. The dates of the event consist of two consecutive lecture units.
Software
As part of this course, the programming language "Python" is used in conjunction with the commercial solver "Gurobi". A free student version of the solver is available at www.gurobi.com.
Ansprechpartner
Vladimir Stadnichuk, Simon Thomä