Karen Smilowitz

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IE381: Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis

Application and development of mathematical modeling tools for the analysis of strategic, tactical, and operational supply-chain problems including facility location, customer assignment, vehicle routing, and inventory management. Related topics including the role of information and decision support systems in supply chains.

Syllabus: Fall 2006

IE480-1: Production and Logistics -1

First of two-course sequence. Introduction to operations research models of investment, including equipment replacement, depreciation, and capacity expansion.

Syllabus: Fall 2007

IE489: Transportation Network Design

Subjects covered include the interrelationship between transportation, inventory, and production costs, the design and operation of physical distribution and collection systems, one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many logistics systems, and the role of terminals and transshipments in transportation networks, as well as relevant analysis methodologies. While examples will be drawn mainly from freight transportation, the methods presented are also useful in the analysis of many passenger transportation systems.

Syllabus: Fall 2006

IE482: Routing and Scheduling

Ph.D.-level elective on modeling and solution methods for vehicle routing and scheduling problems.

Syllabus: Spring 2006

IE490-0: Terminal Design and Operation

This course begins with an overview of transportation terminals (seaports, railyards, airports, warehouses, etc.). We will study methodologies used in traditional facility layout problems and apply these methodologies to transportation terminal problems. The main objective of the course is to develop an understanding of methods for solving difficult logistics and system design problems that occur in transportation terminals.

IEMS 381 students playing the Beer Game