WITHEFFECT FR0M ACADEMIC YEAR2009-2010
ME 451
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Instruction 4 Periods per week
Duration of University Examination 3 Hours
University Examination 75Marks
Sessional 25 Marks
Unit-I
Inventory control:Deterministic and stochastic inventory models; variable demand, lead time, specific service level, perishable products and service.
Inventory control in application; concepts for the practitioners; saving money in inventory systems; ABC classifications.
Inventory control procedures; Quantity-reorders versus periodic inventory systems: material requirement planning (MRP); MRP as a scheduling and ordering system; MRP system components; MRP computational procedure; Detailed capacity planning; MRP -limitation and advantages; Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP-II).
Unit-II
Forecasting:Demand over time; dependant versus independent demand; Forecast error; Forecast models for operations; Qualitative models- Delphi, Nominal group technique, Time-series qualitative models; Single average; single movingaverage; Weighted moving average; Exponential smoothing; Smoothing coefficient selection; Adaptive exponential smoothing; Double exponential smoothing.
Unit-III
Marketing Management: Marketing concept-4P components of marketing mix management, product life cycle and its forecasting strategies.Marketing Research Techniques and different sales promotion methods.
Financial Management:Element of cost-establishing selling price of a product, overheads and its distribution.Nature of financial management.Time value of money, techniques of capital budgeting.
Unit-IV
Project Management:
Network analysis; Network fundamental; PERT/CPM; Scheduling the activities;Fulkersons’srule; Earliest and latest times; Determination of ES and EF in the forward pass; LS and LF in backward pass; Determination of critical path; Beta distribution; Deterministic and probabilistic models; Time-Cost trade-oils; Resource analysis and allocation.
Unit-V
Information Systems: Managerial functions and roles, comparison of the characteristics of the information systems used at operational, tactical and strategic planning levels, concepts of systems and organizations, Model of an information system, Strategic uses of information technology.Categories of computers, input/output devices, primary and secondary storage, introduction to operating systems.
SuggestedReading:
1. Everett F. Adam,Jrand Ronald J. Ebert,“Production andOperations Management—concepts, models and behavior“,51 h ed. 1998, (EEE), Prentice-Hall of India (P) Ltd.,New Delhi.
2. RobertSchultheis, Mary Summer,“Management Information Systems”Irvin McGraw Hill, 1998.
3.Laudon, KC.&Laudon, J.P.“Management Information Systems“,Pearson Education (India), 2002.
4. Khalid Sheikh,“Manufacturing Resource Planning MRP-II) with Introduction to ERP SCM and CRM”.Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd.,New Delhi, 2001.