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Jayant Rajgopal
1039 Benedum Hall
Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Tel. +1 412 624 9840
Fax +1 412 624 9831

rajgopal@pitt.edu

• I have posted solutions to Assignment 9.
• All quiz and homework assignments that were not picked up in class are in an envelope in the plastic folder outside my office door.  If you want yours please pick them because I will be pitching all of it at the end of next week.  
• Reminder that the final exam is at noon on Thursday, December 16 in 157 BEH.   I will talk more about this on Tuesday and also post a study/review sheet.
• I still don't have all of your mid-term exams back - if you have not returned yours to me, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DO SO as soon as possible!

• I have posted Assignment 9 on MRP (due Dec. 02) as well as solutions to Assignment 8 on MPS.
• Have a great Thanksgiving break. 

1. I have posted Assignment 8 (due a week form today) as well as solutions to Assignment 7.  Be sure to check out the underlying cell formulas and the logic behind the calculations.
2. Please hand your Exam 1 back to me ASAP if you have not done so yet - I am still missing several of them.
3. For Assignment 2 (gas forecasting) my actual usage was 5.2 mcf.  If your one-step-ahead forecast was close let me know - the three closest forecasts get 10 bonus points!

1. I will post Assignment 7 on risk pooling and inventory aggregation within a day or two; this will be due in class a week from Tuesday (on November 16) , so you have a little more time.  However, this is likely to take you a little more time than usual, so please start early as possible.  You may work on this in pairs and hand in one report per team.
2. I have also posted solutions to HW 6.
3. If you have not yet done so, please hand back your exam to me once you are done looking at it.
4. Finally, class is canceled on Tuesday, Nov. 8 since I will be out of town at a conference.  We will meet again next Thursday as usual.

• I have posted Assignment 5 as well as solutions to Assignment 4.   
  
• Exam 1 is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 21.
  
• The exam will be a closed book / closed notes exam but I will allow you a hand-written crib sheet - one side of one 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of paper - on which you can put down whatever you want, and which you will hand in with the test.  The test will cover what we have seen until and including today's lecture - basically, supply chain fundamentals, forecasting, aggregate production planning, and deterministic inventory models.  You are not responsible for any material in the text that I did not cover in class, but conversely you are responsible for everything covered in class even if it is not in the textbook.  Please feel free to talk with me if you have questions about the test.  Here is a brief review sheet / study guide summarizing some of the important concepts learned thus far - you might find this useful as you study for the test.  Please keep in mind though, that that this is NOT a substitute for your own crib sheets and that you should make these up as you study for the test.

• I have posted Assignment 4 (due Oct 14). Please start early on this.
• There is no class next Tuesday (Oct 12) because of the Fall break (the University IS open on that day, but you will be following your Monday schedule...).
• Also, an early reminder that the mid-term is scheduled for Thursday, October 21.  More on this next week.

• Solutions to Assignment 3 have been posted. 
• HW/quiz that you did not pick up in class are in the folder outside my office door - please pick them up.

• Solutions to Assignment 2 have been posted. Please be sure to look at the Excel spreadsheet in particular, so that you are clear on the formulas used.
• I have also posted Homework Assignment 3, which will be due a week from today on Thursday, Sep. 30.

HW 1 can be downloaded from the Homework Assignments page; this will be due a week from today on September 16.

• I will update this page any time I have an announcement that I would like to make, or when I have a document for you to download off the web - typically, these will be homework assignments and their solutions which can be obtained from the Homework Assignments page.
• All documents will be made available as Adobe Acrobat files (with a .pdf extension).  In some instances, documents might also be posted as MS-Excel files (when there are spreadsheets). In order to download a document to your machine, simply click on the filename hot link. You may then print the document, save it or do whatever else you wish with it.
  
• As na example, here's a document that contains the course outline and description: course.pdf.
• I have collated copies of most of the overheads that I use for this class and put them together into a set of notes for the class which are required for this course. These have been transcribed into .pdf files and are available in the Course Materials section of this web site from where they can be directly downloaded and printed (Note: this page is password-protected). 
• Bring the notes with you to class EVERY session. That way, you can take down any notes directly on the copies that you have and listen to the lecture (rather than trying to copy into your notebook everything that you see on an overhead...).