Scheduling

Lecturer: Tristan Becker

Course description:

Scheduling is a form of decision-making that plays a crucial role in manufacturing and service industries. In the current business environment, effective and efficient scheduling has become a necessity to gain an edge over competitors. Companies have to meet shipping dates promised to customers, as failure to do so may result in lost goodwill or penalties. Furthermore, activities have to be scheduled in a way to use the available resources most efficiently.

We introduce students to important theoretical models from the scheduling literature, exact and heuristic solution algorithms for scheduling problems, and several real-world applications of scheduling. These include the fields of Supply Chain Management, Health Care, and Workforce Scheduling.

The course enables students to classify scheduling problems according to scheduling theory, apply/implement exact and heuristic algorithms for important scheduling problems and also provides an overview of real-world scheduling problems. As part of the tutorials, we will implement selected solution algorithms and mathematical models for scheduling problems using Python 3 and Gurobi.

Prerequisites:

We recommend having visited an elementary course in Operations Research.

Credit Points: 5

Course Language: English

Dates and Timeslots:

The lecture will take place every Wednesday from 2.50 - 4.20 pm. Room: HSZ/0201/U

Further, there will be a tutorial every Thursday from 9.20 - 10.50 am. Room: BAR/0E85/U

(!) Please note:

• The first lecture will take place on Thursday 16 April, 9.20 - 10.50 am in BAR/0E85/U (during the tutorial timeslot).
• On Wednesday 15 April, 2.50 - 4.20 pm there will be no lecture/tutorial.
• The first tutorial will take place on Thursday 23 April, 9.20 - 10.50.

We will provide a detailed schedule and additional organizational information in the first lecture. The slide set for the first lecture will be available at the beginning of this course. Please also regularly check for announcements in the learning room.

Literature

Pinedo, M. L. (2009). Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services. Springer New York.

Pinedo, M. L. (2022). Scheduling. Springer International Publishing.

Modules:

WW-D-120-SCHE / WW-MA-120-SCHE (neue PO)

MA-WW-BWL-1016 / D-WW-WIWI-1016 (alte PO)