année académique
2024-2025

Titulaire(s) du cours

Evelyne VANPOUCKE (Coordonnateur)

Crédits ECTS

5

Langue(s) d'enseignement

anglais

Contenu du cours

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.

Objectifs (et/ou acquis d'apprentissages spécifiques)

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. 

Pré-requis et Co-requis

Connaissances et compétences pré-requises ou co-requises

Statistics and basic mathematics
 

Méthodes d'enseignement et activités d'apprentissages

- Lectures in the auditorium
- Exercise sessions
- Group works
 

Références, bibliographie et lectures recommandées

Slides, readings and other course information can be found on UV.

Support(s) de cours

  • Université virtuelle
  • Syllabus

Contribution au profil d'enseignement

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

Autres renseignements

Contacts

Lecturer: Evelyne Vanpoucke (evelyne.vanpoucke@ulb.be)
Assistant: Sebastiano Bertulini (sebastiano.bertulini@ulb.be)

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Méthode(s) d'évaluation

  • Examen écrit
  • Travail de groupe
  • Rapport écrit

Examen écrit

Travail de groupe

Rapport écrit

Evaluation will be based on three parts: 
1) Assignments during the year
2) Written exam 
3) Participation

 

Construction de la note (en ce compris, la pondération des notes partielles)

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.

Langue(s) d'évaluation

  • anglais

Programmes