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MSE 334Operations Planning and Inventory Control

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Management Science and Engineering

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This course exposes students to production planning and inventory control approaches in industrial and service systems. Production planning topics cover capacity and resources planning, production scheduling, manufacturing resource planning, just-in-time and lean manufacturing. Inventory control topics cover lot sizing policies, deterministic and stochastic inventory policies. The course involves a design project of a production and/or inventory system.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Complete 1 of the following
      • Must have completed the following:
        • MSE131 - Work Design and Facilities Planning (0.50)
      • Must have completed the following:
    • Complete 1 of the following
      • Must have completed at least 1 of the following:
        • CHE220 - Probability and Statistics (0.50)
        • CIVE224 - Probability and Statistics (0.50)
        • ECE307 - Probability Theory and Statistics 2 (0.50)
        • ENVE224 - Probability and Statistics (0.50)
        • ME202 - Statistics for Engineers (0.50)
        • MSE253 - Probability and Statistics 2 (0.50)
        • MTE201 - Experimental Measurement and Statistical Analysis (0.50)
        • STAT206 - Statistics for Software Engineering (0.50)
        • STAT231 - Statistics (0.50)
        • STAT241 - Statistics (Advanced Level) (0.50)
        • SYDE212 - Probability, Statistics, and Data Science (0.50)
      • Must have completed at least 1 of the following:

Antirequisites

  • Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in any of the following:
    • MSE432 - Production and Service Operations Management (0.50)

Leads to

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 00150420 / 96MW 13:00–14:20
LEC 701203783 / 9999Online or by arrangement
LAB 20150440 / 96M 14:30–15:50
TUT 10150430 / 96W 14:30–15:20

Reviewed on UW Flow

43% liked it66% easy41% useful

From 23 ratings and 3 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • This is my favorite course in my 3A. I personally find the concept are so interesting as they are closely related to my co-op experience. As long as you study, your grade would be very ok!! The professor and the TA helped me and my teammate A LOT!!! They deliver concepts very clearly (slides and examples are amazing)

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  • It's a supply-chain course, so it's not very applicable to the majority of students who won't be working in an industrial job after graduating. The course content isn't particularly difficult and there isn't too much memorization. Based on the class averages, people consistently scored high in the assignments and labs, so it's not difficult getting a high grade in this class. However, the way the course is set up also enables academic dishonesty as seen in the open collaboration between students or individuals during labs, pop quizzes, and I'm sure for assignments and the project as well.

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  • Interesting and useful for those going into logistics or manufacturing probably

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

One post or comment in 1 thread mentions MSE 334, April 2024 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Winter 2024

Questions for Management Engineering students: this program or UTSG CS? 1 point, 11 comments

u/KINGBLUE2739046: “- It’s an Engineering workload, it’s a lot better than ECE, much more time to do side projects, almost a joke honestly, other programs will be making fun of you for not being real engineers, no big …”

u/nyephe: “… paste from the MSE 251/253 tutorials but it's never tested I remember Excel being used in MSE 100/131/251/253/331/263/334/431/332/333/343, and this is only up to 3B and excluding TEs”

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