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Decision Support System for Managers

Prof. Kunal Kanti Ghosh, Prof. Anupam Ghosh and Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya · IIT Kharagpur

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About

This course is designed with the purpose of making the participant an effective user as well as a builder of Decision Support systems (DSS). The course is application oriented and particularly focused towards solving semi-structured decision problems faced by managers in manufacturing and service organizations.

INTENDED AUDIENCE :Management, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and related disciplines.

Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 01 : Introduction to decision support systems YouTube
  2. Lecture 02 : Components of a decision support systems YouTube
  3. Lecture 03 : Components of a decision support systems ( Contd. ) YouTube
  4. Lecture 04 : Models in decision support systems YouTube
  5. Lecture 05 : Models in decision support systems ( Contd. ) YouTube

Week 2

  1. Lecture 06 : Structured , Semi - Structured and Unstructured problems ; Models YouTube
  2. Lecture 07 : Purpose of models ; classification of models YouTube
  3. Lecture 08 : Solution Techniques - Optimization : Linear Programming YouTube
  4. Lecture 09 : Solution Techniques - Optimization : Linear Programming ( Contd. ) YouTube
  5. Lecture 10 : Solution Techniques - Optimization : Integer Programming YouTube

Week 3

  1. Lecture 11 : Decision Support Systems for Forecasting YouTube
  2. Lecture 12 : Decision Support Systems for Forecasting (Contd.) YouTube
  3. Lecture 13 : Decision Support Systems for Forecasting (Contd.) YouTube
  4. Lecture 14 : Decision Support Systems for Forecasting (Contd.) YouTube
  5. Lecture 15 : Decision Support Systems for Forecasting (Contd.) YouTube

Week 4

  1. Lecture 16 : Decision Making for Warehouse Location : Factor Rating & Break - Even Method YouTube
  2. Lecture 17 : Decision Making for Warehouse Location ( Contd. ) :Centre of gravity ; Ardalan heuristic and transportation cost models YouTube
  3. Lecture 18 : Estimation of space requirement in a warehouse and concept of economic order quantity ( EOQ ) YouTube
  4. Lecture 19 : Economic order quantity ( EOQ ) ( Contd. ) YouTube
  5. Lecture 20 : ABC - FSN - VED Analysis ; space calculation in a warehouse - for Staging area YouTube
  6. Lecture 21 : Space calculation in a warehouse : Space calculation for racks YouTube
  7. Lecture 22 : Order Picking ; Material handling equipments YouTube
  8. Lecture 23 : Material Safety and Safety Equipments YouTube
  9. Lecture 24 : Automated storage & replenishment systems ( AS / RS ) YouTube
  10. Lecture 25 : Managerial Decision making in the context of warehousing and materials management YouTube

Week 5

  1. Lecture 26 : Issues in HR ; Employee Selection YouTube
  2. Lecture 27 : Employee Selection ,Promotion and Deployment Method - Lp Method YouTube
  3. Lecture 28 : Employee Selection ,Promotion and Deployment Method - Rating & ranking Method ; Clustering YouTube
  4. Lecture 29 : Employee Selection ,Promotion and Deployment Method - BCG YouTube

Week 6

  1. Lecture 30 : Strategizing for Business , the SWOT and Porter's Framwork Revisited YouTube
  2. Lecture 31 : Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid , GE , Rule of Three YouTube
  3. Lecture 32 : Self Actualisation Needs , Rural Marketing Challenges YouTube
  4. Lecture 33 : Rural Marketing ; Balanced ScoreCard YouTube

Week 7

  1. Lecture 34 : Evaluating Investment Proposls : NPV , IRR YouTube
  2. Lecture 35 : Costing and Pricing for Public Transport YouTube
  3. Lecture 36 : Costing and Pricing for Hospitals YouTube

Week 8

  1. Lecture 37 : Decision Support Systems for Marketing : Decision Support Systems for Media Selection Model YouTube
  2. Lecture 38 : Decision Support Systems for Marketing : Decision Support Systems for Media Selection Model ( Contd. ) YouTube
  3. Lecture 39 : Decision Support Systems for Marketing : Decision Support Systems for Product Pricing Model YouTube
  4. Lecture 40 : Pricing : Model Selection Using Cross - Validation YouTube

Week 9

  1. Lecture 41 : Taxation and the Distribution Network YouTube
  2. Lecture 42 : Transhipment ; Flexibility and Six Sigma YouTube
  3. Lecture 43 : Flexibility and Total Cost of the Network YouTube
  4. Lecture 44 : Risk Analysis for the Distribution Network YouTube
  5. Lecture 45 : Echelons in the Network YouTube

Week 10

  1. Lecture 46 : Concept of Variability and Six Sigma YouTube
  2. Lecture 47 : Concept of Variability and Six Sigma ( Contd. ) YouTube
  3. Lecture 48 : Roadmap to Six Sigma ; Ishikawa Diagram and SIPOC YouTube
  4. Lecture 49 : Service Systems : Characteristics ; Failure and Recovery YouTube

Week 11

  1. Lecture 50 : Decision Support Systems for Inventory Management YouTube
  2. Lecture 51 : Decision Support Systems for Inventory Management ( Contd. ) YouTube
  3. Lecture 52 : Decision Support Systems for Inventory Management ( Contd. ) YouTube
  4. Lecture 53 : Decision Support Systems for Inventory Management ( Contd. ) YouTube
  5. Lecture 54 : Decision Support Systems for Inventory Management ( Contd. ) YouTube

Week 12

  1. Lecture 55 : Decision Support Systems for Operations Management YouTube
  2. Lecture 56 : Decision Support Systems for Operations Management ( Contd. ) YouTube
  3. Lecture 57 : Decision Support Systems for Operations Management ( Contd. ) YouTube
  4. Lecture 58 : Decision Support Systems for Operations Management ( Contd. ) YouTube
  5. Lecture 59 : Decision Support Systems for Operations Management ( Contd. ) YouTube
  6. Lecture 60 : DSS for Multi - Item Production - Distribution Planning YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kharagpur
Department
Management
Taught by
Prof. Kunal Kanti Ghosh, Prof. Anupam Ghosh, Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya
Level
Graduate
Language
English
Subjects
Business and management
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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