Supply Chain Engineering

Meeting Times
Note: Live class IE-GY 7993-BW is held concurrently with the Live Virtual Learning class
IE-GY 7993-LVL1.
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Campus: Brooklyn, NY
Place: Jacobs Academic Building, Room 674.

To Contact the Professor

Adjunct Professor: Sufian Ikhmeis, PhD. IE
Department: Technology Management and Innovation
Email: si605@nyu.edu
Backup Email: sufian.ikhmeis@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Rogers Hall, Room 614
Course Prerequisites
This course is for graduate students in Industrial Engineering. There are no course prerequisites.
Course Description
Students in this course gain an understanding of how companies plan, source, make, deliver and
return products and related services with a global competitive advantage. This course stresses the
engineering components in designing and operating an integrated supply chain network that meets
a network requirements specification. It looks at the supply chain network infrastructure and the
velocity and variability tradeoffs of different models. The focus is on understanding and detecting
the constraints of the infrastructure and implications to the underlying information system.
Students gain an understanding of the role of network logistics with the associated tradeoffs
between information and inventory. Operationally, the synchronization of supply and demand is
examined in detail looking at how the vocalization of demand and visualization of inventory is
used to maximize throughput and defeat the bullwhip effect. Finally, this course defines a set of
global performance measures that are used to compare supply chain network alternatives and
manage potential network risks.
Course Objectives
Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:
 Develop a network requirements specification to meet customer needs.
 Map the plan, source, make, deliver and return relationships of a supply chain network from
product bills of materials upstream and fulfillment channels downstream.
 Engineer an echelon by echelon cost budget to meet a product pricing objective considering
supply alternatives, logistics alternatives and distribution alternatives.
 Analyze the cash-to-cash cycle velocity and variability for the factory and the distributor.
 Use a set of principles based and financial based performance measures to analyze the
relative competitiveness of alternative network designs.
 Locate the supply chain network push/pull boundary while understanding fundamental
differences in the planning methods used within the push zone and the pull zone.

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 Engineer the proper levels of inventory echelon by echelon to meet product delivery lead
time and inventory investment objectives.
 Optimize demand vocalization and inventory visualization in the operation of a supply chain
in order to maximize throughput.
 Understand the use of performance measures and network diagnostics to tune supply chain
performance to specification.
 Use scenario planning to consider probable supply chain risks.

Teaching Methods
Interactive lectures follow a blueprint to design a supply chain network container and to fill this
container with product contents. Practice problems are begun during each lecture. These practice
problems along with textbook related questions are completed out of class to be collected and
graded in four batches. A term long team project involves reverse engineering a supply chain
network to add an existing product into a distributor’s product offering and to plan and establish
inventory levels sufficient to operate within the distributor’s parameters. The team project is
graded based on PowerPoint and Excel presentations. There are mid-term and final exams.

Required Materials
Text: Walker, W.T. 2015. Supply Chain Construction: The Basics for
Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash,
CRC Press. ISBN 13:978-1-4822-4046-7.
Available on www.crcpress.com, www.amazon.com, and in the NYU
Bookstore.

NYU Classes: The syllabus is posted on-line in NYU Classes/

IE-GY7993Supply Chain Engineering/Syllabus. Course notes and project information are posted
on-line.
NYU Classes/IE-GY7993Supply Chain Engineering/Resources. Practice problems/questions are
posted on-line in NYU Classes/
IE-GY7993Supply Chain Engineering/Assignments.
Class structure is posted on-line in NYU Classes/IE-GY7993Supply Chain Engineering/Lessons.
Class video is posted on-line in NYU Classes/IE-GY7993Supply Chain Engineering/Recordings.

Grading Policy

Each component of your grade will be scored from 0 to 100 based for the following max points:
Practice Problems/ Questions #1 due May 31st 5% final grade 5 points max
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Practice Problems/ Questions #2 due June 7 5% final grade 5 points max
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Mid-Term Exam on June 7 25% final grade 25 points max
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Practice Problems/ Questions #3 due June 21 5% final grade 5 points max
Practice Problems/ Questions # 4 due June 28th 5% final grade 5 points max
Team Project due June 28th 25% final grade 25 points max
Final Exam on July 5th 25% final grade 25 points max
Class Participation (Forum for LVL Students) 5% final grade 5 points max
100% final grade 100 points max

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Your final grade in the class will be determined based on the summation of the number of points
that you acquire. The following point spread corresponds with the following grade.
A>90, A->85, B+>80, B>75, B->70, C+>65, C>60, F

Example: A student receives practice problem/question scores of 75, 88, 93 and 76; a team project
score of 90; mid-term and final exam scores of 85 and 92, and a class participation score of 100.
(75x5%+88x5%+85x25%+93x5%+76x5%+90x25%+92x25%+100x5%)=88.35
The course grade is A-.

Please do not try to lobby for rounding up of grades, extra-credit assignments, or grade changes.
You are responsible for doing the work, preparing and meeting deadlines. Grading is final and will
not be changed. Practice problem/question, project, and exam grades will be reported by the
following class.

Graded Practice Problem/Questions Assignments

Four sets of practice problem/questions are assigned on NYU Classes/Assignments. The practice
problems are related to the solution of the team project and the computational style of questions
on the midterm and final exams. Assigned practice problems are started collaboratively during the
lecture and completed individually after class. Students submit their solutions plus the answers to
multiple choice questions related to the assigned textbook readings on NYU Classes/Assignments
for a grade. Students sign an honor pledge that the multiple choice answers reflect their own
understanding of the course work.

Graded Course Project

Dollar Tree, Inc. is an 8.6B$ (2014) operator of 5,367 discount variety stores with a 7.0% net
profit. Each product sold through Dollar Tree retails for $1.00 each. How is this possible? In this
project you will be assigned a product to bring to market through Dollar Tree stores. During this
semester long project, you will learn and practice how to:

 Specify a supply chain network container and its product contents

 Develop a product Bill of Materials from a model
 Estimate inbound, midbound, and outbound logistics costs
 Analyze end-to-end supply chain price/landed costs
 Locate the push/pull boundary
 Determine inventory lot sizes, reorder points, and lead times
 Calculate the distribution requirements plan (DRP), the
master schedule (MPS), and the materials requirements plan
(MRP)
 Analyze supply chain inventory turns echelon by echelon
 Validate the supply chain solution meets requirements

Students are paired in teams of two or three for the project. Students are expected to interact to
find solutions to both the Dollar Tree network design and Dollar Tree operations for the assigned
product. The team is to provide the course instructor with a PowerPoint presentation file and an
Excel workbook file using NYU Classes/Assignments by 12 noon eastern time on Tuesday, July
5th, 2016 which is before any presentation. File size cannot exceed 3Mb. Each team is then
scheduled to make a live 30-minute presentation on Tuesday, July 5th, 2016.
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class teams will present live, while LVL teams will present using NYU Classes/Meetings. Each
team member is expected to present a significant portion of the presentation. Each team member
receives the same grade for the Dollar Tree project.

Graded Exams
The midterm and final exams are two hours, computational, and closed book. The midterm covers
topics related to network design and the final covers topics related to network operations. Smart
phones and laptops are not allowed to be present during the mid-term or the final. Students need a
calculator to complete the midterm and the final; smart phones may not be used as calculators. No
make-up exams will be given. In-class students will take their exams in class, while LVL students
will take their exam on-line using ProctorU.

Interaction Policy

Class participation for LVL students will be graded on comments posted to NYU Classes/Forum.

Student Course Evaluation

Each student is expected to complete a Student Course Evaluation at the end of the summer
session.

Academic Misconduct
Academic integrity is essential to maintaining an environment that fosters excellence in teaching,
research, and other educational and scholarly activities. Academic misconduct involving
cheating or plagiarism is not tolerated at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. The complete
policy can be found at: http://www.nyu.edu/about/policies-guidelines-compliance/policies-and-
guidelines/academic-integrity-for-students-at-nyu.html

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Class Schedule

Class Session Date Subject Assignments / Notes

1A 6:00-08:30PM Lec.01: Introduction and Blueprint Ch. 1 & 2 (pp. 1-66)
05/24/016
1B 8:35-11:00PM Lec.02: Network Infrastructure Ch. 3 & 4 (pp.67 - 139)

2A 6:00-08:30PM Lec.03: Make and Source  Practice Problem / Question # 1 Due

2B 8:35-11:00PM 05/31/016 Lec.04: Logistics and Deliver  Ch. 5 & 6 (pp.141 - 207)
 Ch. 7 (pp. 209 – 239)

3A 6:00-08:30PM Lec.05: Information Systems and Review Practice Problem / Question # 2 Due
06/07/016
3B 8:35-11:00PM Lec.06: Midterm Exam Closed Book

4A 6:00-08:30PM Lec.07: Performance Measures  Ch. 8 (pp.241 - 283)

06/14/016  Ch. 11 (pp. 365 – 405)
4B 8:35-11:00PM Lec.08: Network Operations Ch. 9 (pp. 285 – 296)

5A 6:00-08:30PM Lec.09: Demand Planning  Practice Problem / Question # 3 Due

5B 8:35-11:00PM 06/21/016 Lec.10: Inventory Management  Ch. 9 (pp. 297 – 318)
 Ch. 10 (pp. 319 – 364)

6A 6:00-08:30PM Lec.11: Dynamic Network Operations  Practice Problem / Question # 4 Due

06/28/016  Ch. 12 (pp. 407 – 425)
6B 8:35-11:00PM Lec.12: Presentation PowerPoint and Excel files due

7A 6:00-08:30PM Lec.13: Startup Diagnostics, Risk Ch. 12 (pp. 426 – 436)

07/05/016 Management, and Review
7B 8:35-11:00PM Lec.14: Final Exam Closed Book

Expectations of the Student

Students are expected to read the assigned text, complete the practice problems/ questions, attend
every class, work with an assigned partner on the team project, participate in discussions and ask
questions.

Ground rules include:

 Be on-time.
Bring class notes, the textbook and a calculator to every class.
Email, web surf, text and use smart phones and iPads before and after class – not during.
Group learning is encouraged; individual testing is demanded.
 Engage in class discussions.
 Please cleanup your area when leaving the classroom.
 Attendance at every class is expected.

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This Course Has Practical Value for You…

 If you become an entrepreneur and start you own company,
 If you work for a family business,
 If you work for corporate America,
 If you decide to earn a Ph.D. in supply chain management,
 If you become involved in disaster relief and the rebuilding of infrastructure,
 Even if you decide on a career unrelated to your major
…because supply chains are an essential part of all business and commerce

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