OPAC - Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control

1. OPAC - Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control SimmeDouwe Flapper OPAC master project coordinator

2. Research organization • Different (industrial) domains: • Capital Goods Operations • Physical Distribution and Logistics Management • Healthcare Operations • Process, Pharma and Food Industries • Accounting, Finance, and Game Theory • Linked to many research projects • Linked to many real-life decision problems within companies / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

3. Domains • Different mentors participate in more than one domain • Company involvement is usually based on our networks • Detailed information is available on: • Our OPAC website • http://w3.ieis.tue.nl/nl/groups/opac • http://w3.ieis.tue.nl/en/groups/opac • Personal webpages from (some) mentors / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

4. Capital Goods • Some topics: • Design for complete life cycle (incl. maintenance, final disposal) • Planning & control product development activities (multi-project planning with uncertainties in activities, duration activities) • Planning and control actual production capital goods (job shop like) • Planning and control after sales activities, incl. warranty, leasing, servicing, maintenance activities (parts, men, tools) • Location allocation decisions (parts, tools, service men) • People primarily involved: Geert-Jan van Houtum, Tarkan Tan, SimmeDouwe Flapper, HaoPeng (Reliability) • Other: Henny van Ooijen, Marco Slikker (Game • theory) / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

5. Physical Distribution and Logistics Management • Some topics: • Network design for efficient transportation operations • Port and Hinterland logistics • Distribution Center and store location decisions • Planning and scheduling vehicles: Vehicle Routing Problems, Vehicle Fill rate improvements • In-store operations: e.g. handling, inventory, assortment planning, etc • People primarily involved: Tom Van Woensel, Jan Fransoo, Peter de Langen, Ton de Kok, DorotheeHonhon, Rob Broekmeulen, Karel van Donselaar • Other: Marco Slikker (Game theory), Nico Dellaert / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

6. Process, Pharma and Food Industries • Some Topics: • Planning and control of supply of input materials • Production planning and control (e.g., silos; technical batch sizes; sequence dependent setup times and costs; storage time restrictions; alternative recipes, routings; deteriorating stocks) • Distribution planning and control • Location allocation decisions (network design) • Investment decisions • Sustainable production and distribution • People primarily involved: Jan Fransoo, SimmeDouwe Flapper • Other: Tarkan Tan, Henny van Ooijen, Ton de Kok, ZűmbűlAtan / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

7. Accounting, Finance, and Game Theory • Some Topics: • Collaboration (between different parts of one company, different companies) • Contracting • Operations management and Finance (double degree Tilburg) • People primarily involved: Marco Slikker (Game theory), Matthew Reindorp, Fehmi Tanrisever, Arun Chockalingam / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

8. Healthcare operations • Some Topics: • Planning and control of supply to hospitals, incl. ambulances • Planning and control of patient flows (men, tools, materials; emergency, regular (repeat) visits) • Internal logistics (e.g., food delivery to patients in a hospital, daily help people in a nursery home) • Planning and control of helping people at home ("thuiszorg") • Planning and control of human resource availability, e.g., temporary workers, working in shifts (rosteringproblem) • Planning and control of materials, tools availability • People primarily involved: Nico Dellaert Other: Henny van Ooijen / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

9. Available OPAC mentors for thisround Mentor # students to accept Broekmeulen 1 de Kok 0 de Langen 1 Dellaert 1-2 Flapper 2-3 Fransoo 1-2 Slikker 1 Tan 1 v. Donselaar 1-2 v. Houtum 1 v. Ooijen 2-3 v. Woensel 1-2  Atan 1 Chockalingam 1 Honhon 1 Peng 1 Reindorp 1 Tanrisever 1 / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

10. OPAC course requirements 1CM22 Integrated Financial & Operations Management 1CM25/1CM10 SCOP/MAMS obligatory for all OML Masters obligatory for OPAC Masters 1CM05 Design of Oper. Pl. Control Systems 1CM10/1CM25 MAMS/SCOP (the otherone!) 1CM15 Project andProcess Management 1CM30 Service Supply ChainsCapitalGoods 1CM36 Game Theorywithapplicationsto SCM 1CM40 Retail Operations 1CM55 Strategic and operational decision making in transportation and logistics 3 out of 6 for OPAC Masters, supervisor has to agree / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel

11. Information meeting research domains OPAC Date: Friday, May 11, 2012 (Upcoming Friday) Time: 10:45 – 12:30 Location: Pav. A12b (links) If you would like to attend, please send an e-mail, preferably before the end of the day to M.Slikker@tue.nl It would be helpful if you use subject “Information meeting research domains OPAC”.

12. Program 10.45 uur: • Intro Marco Slikker • Healthcare Operations Johan Vuegen • Physical Distribution and Logistics Management Bart van Gessel Break (around 11.30-11.45) • Capital Goods Operations Nadine Loeffen • Process, Pharma and Food Industries Jeroen Brouwer

13. OPAC intake process • Advice: talk with SimmeDouwe Flapper • Mentor availability • Interests matching • S.D.P.Flapper@tue.nl • Good alternative: go directly to a mentor • Be prepared! • Provide CV, interests, grades, etc by email • Prepare your face2face meeting with the mentor • Do not wait too long before making appointments / School of Industrial Engineering - prof.dr. Tom Van Woensel