Course teacher(s)
Evelyne VANPOUCKE (Coordinator)ECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
english
Course content
Operations management is a vital topic that every business student needs to understand as it is at the heart of the creation of wealth for businesses, value for customers, and the improvement in the living standard of citizens of all countries. Operations managers are responsible for the production of services and products in an ethical and environmentally responsible way while being responsive to the market. Add to it the need to manage supply chains of materials, information and funds reaching to all areas of the world. While challenging, there are concepts, tools, and method that managers use to deal with operating problems in a global environment. The mission of this course is to provide you with a comprehensive set of concepts, tools and models for addressing decision-making in operations management.
Topics: Operations/supply chain strategy, Quality management, Project management, Lean management, Process management, Lay-out of facilities, Supply chain uncertainty, MRP, inventory management, forecasting, S&OP and Scheduling.
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
Understand the concepts and terms used in the area of operations management.
Use decision tools, based on statistics, to implement operations management tools and decision-making at operational, tactical and strategic level.Prerequisites and Corequisites
Required and Corequired knowledge and skills
Statistics and basic mathematics
Teaching methods and learning activities
- Lectures in the auditorium
- Exercise sessions
- Group works
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
Slides, readings and other course information can be found on UV.
Course notes
- Syllabus
- Université virtuelle
Contribution to the teaching profile
LO1.1 Integrate sustainable development into problem analysis.
LO1.2 Master and apply key economic and managerial concepts, frameworks and theories in a professional context.
LO1.3 Embed scientific and technologic processes to formulate a business issue into a well-defined problem and suggest solutions
LO1.4 Translate a strategy into an actional plan including the financials
LO2.1 Adapt a scientific approach to data management (analysis and providing solutions)
LO2.1 Display critical thinking
LO3 Apply quantitative and qualitative techniques to support analysis
Other information
Contacts
Assistant: Sebastiano Bertulini (sebastiano.bertulini@ulb.be)
Campus
Solbosch
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- Personal work
- written examination
- Group work
Personal work
written examination
Group work
1) Assignments during the year
2) Written exam
3) Participation
Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)
Evaluation ill be based on three parts:
1) Assignments during the year (35%)
2) Written exam (60%)
3) Participation (5%)
The grading of the course will be based on class participation (5%), group works (35%) and a final examination (60%). The group works only counts if the exam grade is ≧ 8/20. The exam is a closed-book exam. For the re-sit, each part of the grade that is ≧ 10/20 should not be redone. It is not possible to redo the participation in the resit session.
Language(s) of evaluation
- english