Operations management decision support system

Walsh's work demonstrates a combination of scholarship and artistic creativity. This Project Demonstrating Excellence consists of software on two disks, an accompanying text, and a contextual piece.; Walsh has applied his academic and experience-based learning in Operations Management, Quantitative Methods, and Management Information Systems acquired prior to matriculation and his new learning in Management Information Systems subsequent to matriculation to the development of a general purpose, user-friendly, Operations Management Decision Support System. This system includes the following modules: Time Series Forecasting Analysis, Regression Analysis, Facilities Layout Analysis, Location Analysis, Linear Programming, Transportation Model, Assignment Model, Line Balancing, Inventory Analysis, Aggregate Production Planning, Material Requirements Planning, Statistical Process Control, Gantt Charts, Critical Path Method, and Program Evaluation and Review Technique. Walsh incorporates Object Oriented Programming and a Graphical User Interface to produce a high-level of user friendliness. He includes the ability to display and print graphics where appropriate.; The software is user-friendly, polished, and professional. It looks and feels like a Window's application but runs from DOS. There is an abundance of context-sensitive help windows. The text is an easy reading narrative with examples and problems on how to use the software. High quality screen prints and sample reports are inserted throughout where appropriate. The first chapter is an overview of the system. Each subsequent chapter covers one of the system modules.; The contextual piece reviews the current literature, includes Walsh's reflections on the theory of teaching Management Information Systems, traces the methodology he used in his software development, and reflects on the student and faculty testing of the software. Walsh recognizes that the design of superior information systems is a multidisciplinary activity. The contextual piece describes information systems as sociotechnical systems. Walsh researches and discusses the technical approaches of Management Science, Computer Science, and Operations Research and the behavioral approaches of Psychology, Political Science, and Sociology.