IIT Kharagpur - Decision Support System for Managers

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Decision Support System for Managers
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Overview

Duration	12 hours
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Intermediate
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Decision Support System for Managers
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Highlights

IIT Kharagpur
Instructors - Prof. Kunal Kanti Ghosh, Prof. Anupam Ghosh, Prof Sujoy Bhattacharya
AICTE approved FDP course
INDUSTRIES SUPPORT: Tata Group of Industries, Multinationals, L&T, and similar such manufacturing and service organizations including IT companies

Decision Support System for Managers
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Simulation Forecasting

Who should do this course?

Management, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and related disciplines.

More about this course

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.

Decision Support System for Managers
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Curriculum

Week 1: Introduction to Decision Support Systems (DSS) ? Different types of Managerial Decision Problems and the Role of a DSS in solving them. Management Information System versus DSS, Range of Capabilities of a DSS, Components of a DSS, Examples of DSS, Basics of DSS Design Cycle

Week 2: Models in Decision Support Systems ? What is a Model? Classification of Models, Purpose of Modeling in DSS, Solution Techniques: Optimization, Heuristics, and Simulation, Traditional approach to modeling and its weaknesses, Desirable features for Models in DSS, Models and Managers: The Concept of a Decision Calculus

Week 3: Decision Support System for Evaluation of Investment Proposals

Week 4: Decision Support System for Materials Managers

Week 5: Decision Support System for Forecasting Demand for Independent Items ? single and multi-period forecasting, forecasting for products with intermittent demand

Week 6: Decision Support System for Determination of Product Mix ? product choice and bundling decisions, product mix decisions

Week 7: Decision Support System for Production Distribution Problem for a Multi-Product and a Multi-Unit Organization Week 8: Decision Support System for Vehicle Scheduling

Week 9: Decision Support System for Customer Centric Value Driven Decisions ? designing the service system

Week 10: Decision Support System for Human Resources Function

Week 11: Decision Support System for Distribution Network Design in a Supply Network

Week 12: Decision Support System for Pricing Decisions