- Welcome to my Global MBA Supply Chain Management class. Please read these announcements first whenever you have a question. If your question is not answered, e-mail me.

- HW questions are coming from course notes not from the textbook but they may refer to textbook.

- Please read LP and Transportation, Location formulations under Supplements.

- Formulation examples and solutions for quiz preparation.

- If your Microsoft Office does not come with solver add-in, what to do? First secure the following files from a friend: Solver.xla (microsoft excel add in), Solver.cnt (cnt file), Solver (help file), Dotprd32 (microsoft excell xll add in), Solver32.dll. Copy these files into Program files/Microsoft office/Library/Solver. Before you need solver in excel click on Solver.xla, allow for macros. Go back to Excel, you will find solver add in under Tools menu. If you are brave enough, you may want to load Windows from scratch (not suggested due to instability) and set options to extensive set up.

- There is a short discussion on probability at the begining of inventory course notes, but this discussion is by no means sufficient to learn the concepts. It is rather to remind you the concepts.

- So what really is the difference between 1. and 2. editions of the textbook? You may read a review for both editions here .

- I reserve the right to modify course notes before I discuss them. Any modification after the discussion will be announced here. Since the course materials can be updated during the course, do not print all of them.

- Sections and questions in course notes that start with the word "PhD" require a higher level of understanding and can be skipped by non-PhD students.

- Late hw submissions delay the process of grading and posting. Please do not submit late unless you get permission to do so. Unauthorized late submissions will be subject to grade adjustments.

- § is the section sign, for example § 1.9 is the first chapter section 9 of the course notes.

- What is the difference between notations A:=B and A=:B? You may see these rarely in the notes. A:=B means A is defined to be equal to B. A=:B means B is defined to be equal to A. In both cases, A=B. But := and =: tell us whether B existed first or A existed first. This is a kind of a chicken and egg issue. However the notation can be helpful in exposition.

- FYI: CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, www.cscmp.org) is a nation-wide society that also arranges roundtable talks in DFW (www.dfwcscmp.org).

- For supply chain issues/questions/discussion/job announcements, join Yahoo's Supply Chain Management Group .

- You may want to join APICS , a US wide organization of operation management professionalls. I am told that student membership is $20/year and student members receive discounts from APICS certification tests. For more info e-mail: apicsutd@yahoo.com .

- If you have graduated from UTD, keep in touch with us via Alumni Link .