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Study programmes 2007-2008Last update : 7/05/2008
GEST0805-1  Production Management
Duration :  45h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
management engineering, 1st yearPremier quadrimestre5
"licencié" in management sciences, 1st yearPremier quadrimestre5
"licencié" in company management, 1st yearPremier quadrimestre4
"licencié" in company management, 1st yearDeuxième quadrimestre4
Holder(s) :  Yves Crama
Language :  Langue française
Course contents :  Production management includes conception, planning and control of all the activities that compose the production process of goods or services. This course includes an intoduction to the basic concepts of production management placed in a hierarchical decisions context. Questions of operational level (workshop scheduling, stock management), tactical level (mid-term planning, MRP and just in time) and of strategic / long term level (conception of a new product, of a new facility) will be successively studied.
The last part of the course present two techniques of Operations Research used to solve these problems : linear programming and integer programming.
Course objective :  To give basic notions of quantitative approaches used to solve production management problems. To introduce fundamental problems encountered in production management and some methods to solve them.
Prerequisites :  Fundamental notions in management,
mathematics and statistics.
Workshops :  Exercises included in lectures.
Organization :  Lectures including exercises.
Schedule : chaque vendredi de 11h à 13h et de 13h30 à 15h, au "Durkheim", bat. B31 (EGSS).
Written notes :  Syllabus.
References
[1] BAGLIN G., O. BRUEL, A. GARREAU, M. GREIF et Chr. VAN DELFT, Management Industriel et Logistique, Economica, 3ème Edition, Paris, 2001.
[2] GIARD V., Gestion de la production et des flux, Economica, 3ème Edition, Paris, 2003.
[3] F.S. HILLIER et G.S. LIEBERMAN, Introduction to Operations Research, 6ème édition, Mac Graw-Hill International Editions, Singapour, 1995.
[4] J.O. McClain, L.J. Thomas et J.B. Mazzola, Operations Management, 3ème édition, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1992.
Assessment :  Written examination.
Contacts :  Enseignant :
D. DE WOLF
Email : daniel.dewolf@ulg.ac.be

Assistant: M. BAY
Phone : 04 366 31 05
Email : Maud.Bay@ulg.ac.be

Secretary :
C. BROSE-VODON, Bât. B31, Local II/54
Phone : 04 366.27.21
Email : Claude.Vodon@ulg.ac.be


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