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| LOGI0016-1 | Quality and performance in operations management
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Yves Crama |
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| Substitute(s) : | Alireza Faraz |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Course contents :
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| The management of organizations and projects requires designing, planning, executing and controlling activities. This course focuses on a variety of concepts, methods and processes aimed at improving the efficiency of the execution of supply chain management processes, and at ensuring that they deliver results in line with the plans and with the strategy of the organization. This involves, in particular, putting in place specific quality management processes, and developing indicators of the performance of the supply chain. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| At the end of this course, the students will understand the main objectives pursued by quality management and performance management programs. They will be familiarized with fundamental concepts like total quality management, quality assurance and certification, statistical process control, lean management, critical success factors, key performance indicators, and performance measurement models.
Intended Learning Outcomes addressed by the courses :
- Strengthening knowledge and understanding of basic management disciplines in order to use them to perform a rigorous analysis of a management situation and provide pertinent solutions
- Ability to speak 2 foreign languages: C1 in English and B2 in one other language
- Capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem, to perform a rigorous analysis of it and to suggest pertinent solutions
- Being capable of professional team work
- Developing a critical sense (arguing)
- Developing a transversal, global vision
- Professional capacity for oral communication
- Professional capacity for written communication
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Fundamentals of supply chain management: production systems, logistics, inventory management, and their relation with the strategic objectives of the firm.
Inferential statistics: confidence intervals, regression models. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Presentations by guest speakers.
Readings (book chapters, professional and academic literature).
Case studies and applications.
Presentations by the students. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face and homeworks. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Final grade based on individual and group work (50% each).
Relative weigthing of individual assessment : 50% |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Instructor: Y. CRAMA HEC-Management School (Building N1) Phone. : 04 366 30 77 Email : Y.Crama@ulg.ac.be |
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