Operations management

Teacher(s)

Laurier Wim;

Language

French

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

Define the basic concepts of operations management Recognise the basic principles of operations management in business applications Paraphrase the mathematical and statistical foundations of these basic principles Illustrate these basic principles with examples Model concrete problems, and Solve these problems.

Content

The foundations of operations management are taught through the following subdomains (This list is indicative and non-exhaustive):
• Demand forecasting
• Stock management
• Planning
• Just-in-time
• Waiting-lines
• Quality management
• Project Management

Teaching methods

Face-to-face, 30 hours of theory et 15 hours of exercises.
Ex cathedra presentations and exercises.

Evaluation methods

An examination consisting partly of a written component and partly of an oral component, conducted without reference materials (closed book).
The oral part of the examination covers the theoretical component of the course and assesses the ability to define, recognise, paraphrase and illustrate fundamental concepts.
The written part of the examination covers the practical work and assesses the ability to model and solve real-world problems.
The final mark is the arithmetic mean of the marks for the theoretical and practical components.

Faculty or entity

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