4) Material Management:

Introduction to the concepts of operations and Operations
Management Development of Production Function.
Relation of Production with other functions like design function, purchase function, plant layout maintenance etc.
Product Classification, Product selection (steps for identifying
the product for manufacturing),
Product development (market pull, technology push, inter functional approach).
Brief description / importance of Research, Development and
Design of a Product
Facilities planning (how much to produce, level of automation,
facilities required for manufacturing, where to produce
arranging required facilities how to produce etc).
Production System
Plant Layout Differences between various types-of layout
(Product layout, Process layout, Cellular layout, Static of layout
etc)
Various types of Material Handling Systems.
Their guidelines /principles, distinguishing features uses
Overview of various types of maintenance systems
Meaning / Functions Nature of Production, Planning & Control
Importance of Materials Management (corporate policy,
organization, research, planning, source selection)
Value analysis and Value Engineering
Purchase management importance of purchasing various R’s
of purchasing systems.
Need for forecasting price / policy on seasonal commodities
and capital equipments.
Simple problems on various types of forecasting including exponential smoothing.
Inventory management, its prime importance in our country
today.
Inventory Control Techniques – ABC, FSN, GOLF, VED, SOS,
HML, Make-or-buy decisions. Problems on ABC analysis.
Warehousing and stores management.
Centralized and decentralized stores.
Brief introduction to various methods of stores accounting.
Need for stock verification.
Management of scrap / waste / surplus / obsolete materials.
JIT, KANBAN, KAIZEN, Push V/s Pull concept.
Materials Requirement Planning.
Explanation of EOQ – its advantages / limitations
modifications.
Types of inventory systems (P-system and the
Q-system). Need for safety stock / reserve stock.
(Simple problems on these topics.)
SQC. Techniques of SQC.
Control Charts X-bar chart, RChart,
P-Chart, C-Chart, Graphical representation.
(Direct problems on them)