Education

The POMS Teaching Initiative will develop a vision for the role that POMS can play in improving teaching in the operations management profession.

This mission will be led by the POMS Education Committee and accomplished through sharing of best teaching practices and dissemination of teaching materials through the POM journal, POMS website, and conferences.

Accordingly, on this page you will find links to our materials in this regard. Check back often, we plan to post valuable information on an ongoing basis!

• Harvard Business School
• Darden (University of Virginia)
• Ivey Business School (University of Western Ontario)
• The European Case Clearing House (Cranfield)
• Tuck Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies (Dartmouth)
• List of Distributors for Materials
• Interesting Resources for Students

• The CIBER Web
  Resources for Faculty from The Centers for International Business Education and Research.
• The OM Encyclopedia
  An Encyclopedia of OM terms in PDF format.
  From Arthur V. Hill, Professor of Operations & Management Science,
  Curtis L. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
• Supply Chain and Operations Management Glossary
  Glossary hosted by LINDO Systems.

• XanEdu(tm)Course Packs (www.xanedu.com)
  Faculty can create the ultimate custom course materials¯print or digital-for their business students. XanEdu's comprehensive and extensive services offer unparalleled access to billions of pages of pre-copyright cleared material- cases, trade and academic journals and newspapers, book chapters-through their intuitive online tool. If it's not in their current collection of content, their editorial team of experts will get the permissions for you!
• MetaText (www.metatext.com)
  MetaText offers over 250 digital textbooks from publishers including Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, and Houghton- Mifflin. Digital textbooks provide a range of interactive teaching and learning tools through the convenience of the web. This technology enables unlimited textbook customization and information sharing, at a price that is more than affordable to students.
• Forelife.xls
  An Excel workbook that forecasts the remaining lifetime demand using both a finite and an infinite geometric series model. Regression is used to estimate the parameters. Donated by Professor Art Hill (University of Minnesota), ahill@csom.umn.edu
• Lotsizing.xls
  An Excel workbook that implements several methods for lotsizing for time varying demand, including a very efficient implementation of the Wagner-Whitin algorithm. Donated by Professor Art Hill (University of Minnesota), ahill@csom.umn.edu
• Netsolver.xls
  An Excel workbook that implements a minimum cost flow network optimization algorithm using VBA code. Donated by Professor Art Hill (University of Minnesota), ahill@csom.umn.edu
• Factory Schedule Show, by Professor Khoshnevis, Khoshnevis Industrial & Systems Engineering University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0193 (213) 740-4889 (213) 740-1120 (fax) khoshnev@usc.edu, free of charge to those who may be interested. FSS is a Windows based software which provides a graphical demonstration of factory operations schedule and machine loads. The system is also capable of showing relevant statistical data and performance measures. Here is the URL: http://www- rcf.usc.edu/~khoshnev/
  • Click on "Major Software Developed" - Click on FSS to download.
  • To run FSS: Run FSS.EXE - Select 'File', Select 'Open' - Select the 'demo.fss' input file. The FSS windows will be activated.
• www.bussim-ed.com
  BusSim provides three simulations that relate Operations Management content to real world applications.
  BusSim Operations is a manufacturing based simulation that focuses on the operations function.
  BusSim Manufacturing is a manufacturing based simulation that teaches broader management responsibilities.
  BusSim Transportation is a service based trucking industry simulation.
  These simulations provide excellent assessment of student learning and all programs are downloadable for free on the website. Donated by Professor David A. Jordan, CSI (Geneva College)