Supply Chain Optimization

Lecturer: Jenn-Rong Lin (林振榮)

Email: jrlin@mail.ntou.edu.tw 

Phone: 02-2462-2192#7016 

Webpage: tsweb.ntou.edu.tw/p/412-1072-6966.php?Lang=zh-tw 

Course ID: M68010P9

Credits: 3

Course Prerequisites: Operations Research 

Course Description and Goals:

This course is designed for first-year graduate course on optimization as applied to supply chain management. The focus of this course is to enhance the students’ technical skill and system perspective in problem solving, in particular model formulation. After completing this course, students will have learned the most modern skills available for the design, operation, and evaluation of supply chain systems 

Schedule Type: Lectures along with case studies 

Course Schedule (subject to change):

1. Introduction to course (1 week) 

2. Linear programming (1 week) 

3. A graphical solution procedure for solving linear programming (1 week) 

4. Multi-objective linear programming (2 weeks) 

5. Integer Programming and applications (3 weeks) 

6. Prelim (1 week) 

7. Network flow problems (2 weeks) 

8. TSP & VRP (3 weeks) 

9. Final project presentation (2 weeks) 

10. Case Study (1 week) 

11. Field Trip (1 week)