Teaching Inventory Management and Control

Session organizer: Matthew Drake, drake987@duq.edu

Inventory management and control is an important concept for operations and supply chain management students at all levels to understand; however, they often find the concepts and the required analysis to be difficult to master. This session will contain presentations that discuss innovative methods related to teaching all aspects of inventory management and control. Attendees will be able to take ideas and techniques from the session and implement them with their own students.

This session will include presentations covering all aspects of inventory management and control including, but not limited to:

  • General strategies for teaching inventory management and control
  • Classroom exercises for teaching inventory management and control
  • Games and simulations for teaching inventory management and control
  • Inventory management and control case studies
  • Strategies for conducting inventory-related course projects with external organizations
  • Innovative methods for overcoming common challenges that students have in understanding inventory management and control concepts and techniques

If you are interested in joining these sessions, then please do the following:

  • Send me an email so that I know that you will submit an abstract (drake987@duq.edu)

If you are not sure whether your topic would fit, then please send me an abstract on the basis of which I can form an opinion.

When you submit you can denote that you want to join the sessions on Teaching Inventory Management and Control

Abstract submission deadline: 31 March 2018

Contact details of the session organizer:

Matthew Drake,
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management,
Duquesne University
E-mail: drake987@duq.edu