EIN4343 (Section 8231): Inventory and Supply Chain Systems

Course Schedule: T 6-7 (12:50pm-2:45pm) and R 7 (1:55pm-2:45pm) at FAC 0127. (UF Campus Map.)

Instructor: Siqian Shen, homepage, facebook
Contacts: sshen@ufl.edu, Weil Hall 401
Office Hours: Tue and Thu, 3:00pm-4:00pm at Weil 408, or by email appointments.

TA: Dincer Konur
Contacts: dincer@ufl.edu, Weil Hall 450
Office Hours: Mon and Wed, 11:00am-12:30pm at Weil 408 (or Weil 450)

Recommended Textbooks:

  1. Michael Hugos. Essentials of Supply Chain Management (2nd Edition). Wiley, 2006. (Required)
  2. Wayne Winston. Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms (4th edition). Duxbury Press, 2003. (Chapter 15, 16, 18, 24).(Required)
  3. Steven Nahmias. Production and Operations Analysis (6th Edition). McGraw-Hill, 2008.
  4. Gerard Cachon and Christian Terwiesch. Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations (2th Edition). McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Sorted SCM Vocabulary: A Supply Chain and Logistics Glossary© Edward H. Blickstein
For News Vendor problem, and Service Level EOQ: Standardized Loss Function and Normal Function Form