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Teaching at KLU

Management Science

The objective of this course is to introduce students to quantitative analysis approach of management science and scientific decision making. The course will consist of selected quantitative analysis techniques such as linear programming, sensitivity analysis, network models, probability concepts and applications, and decision analysis.

Research Topics in Operations Management

The objective of this course is to introduce PhD students to the state-of-the-art research in the fields of operations management (OM), to identify future research directions, to provide a forum to communicate research ideas, and to initiate students to formulate and analyze a research problem that eventually may extend to a research publication. The students are expected to present papers from both classical and emerging literature (with a special focus on interdisciplinary research) in different subfields of OM, and turn these presentations into learning experiences for the participants. Through presentations, discussions and assignments, the course aims to develop modeling, synthesis and presentation skills.

Inventory Management

The objective of this course is to introduce the students to the scientific theory of inventory management. The course will consist of demand forecasting techniques, deterministic inventory control policies, discounting, cycle inventories, safety inventories, concepts of continuous review and periodic review policies, the concept of optimal policies, product availability, newsvendor model, postponement, coordination in supply chains.

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