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| LOGI0013-1 | Operations planning
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Performance Management and Control, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Financial Engineering, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Management Engineering, professional Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Intrapreneurship, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Modelisation and Technologies, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Supply Chain Management, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focusin Performance Management Systems, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Yasemin Arda |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| The course presents advanced models of production and inventory management (aggregate production planning models, hierarchical production planning, lot-sizing models, scheduling in manufacturing and services, pull production systems and Kanban policies) and familiarizes students with real world production and material flow management problems through two case studies. The first one is an INFORMS case study and the second one is a real case that analyses the production planning problem of a multinational enterprise. Students are wanted to use the modelling tool AIMMS to treat these logistical problems, conduct detailed analysis, drive conclusions, and propose original improvement opportunities. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Intended key learning outcomes:
- Gaining the knowledge and understanding of the chosen concentration field.
- Understanding and being able of using modelization methods.
- Integrate autonomously researched information, tools, knowledge and context to build and propose, either individually or as part of a team, original, creative and viable solutions to concrete complex management problems whether real or simulated.
- Providing concrete solutions to a management problem, integrating modelization methods and/or a dimension of technology, innovation or production.
- Being capable of professional team work.
- Developing a critical sense (arguing).
- Creative conception of solutions.
- Professional capacity for oral communication.
- Professional capacity for written communication.
Specific learning outcomes of the course:
- Deepen knowledge in production and inventory management.
- Learn new models and techniques used to manage production and material flows.
- To be able to solve frequently faced problems of production and material flow management.
- To be able to recognize the situations where production and material flow management techniques can be used as decision making tools and to interpret correctly the conclusions which can be derived using these techniques.
- To be able to make critical analysis of these different techniques.
- Understand the advantages and limitations of these kinds of approaches for real world applications.
- Understand the difficulties of treating real world data and managing real world production and material flow systems.
- Learn how to use the mathematical modeling tool AIMMS to treat real world logistical problems.
- To be able to conduct detailed analysis, drive conclusions, and propose original improvement opportunities for real world logistical systems using these techniques and tools.
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Basic concepts of supply chain management, production planing, and inventory management |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Lectures
Discussions
Factory visit / Invited speaker: A factory visit is organized to familiarize students with real world operations planning problems.
Two group projects: A session of 2 hours is organized for each project to help students in their analyses and in using AIMMS.
Oral presentations of the group projects: A session is devoted to the oral presentations of each project. The groups have 10 minutes to present the role of each teammate in the project, the tool that they have developed using AIMMS, the analyses that they have conducted, the conclusions of theses analyses, and the improvement opportunities that they are proposing. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Documents that can be found on the virtual campus Lol@:
1. Syllabus: The course notes and the PowerPoint presentations used during the lectures can be found on the virtual campus Lola@. The students are wanted to be in possession of these documents during the lectures.
2. Articles, book chapters, case studies |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written exam (~ 50%): An oral exam is organized in the second session instead of a written one.
Group projects (~ 50%): The projects are prepared in groups of 2 or 3 students and evaluated based on the quality of the written reports and the oral presentations. The weight of the first project is 40% while the weight of the second one is 60%.
Each student has an opportunity to evaluate the contribution of his/her teammates to group projects during the semester by filling a peer evaluation. Taking these peer evaluations into account as well as the participation in class along the year, professor may decide, by a justifiable opinion, to give different grades to students of a same team. Motivation must take into account criteria such as quality of work different from other team members, a greater or lesser involvement in the mission.
For the second session, if the concerned student wants to resubmit a project (alone this time), he/she has to contact the professor. If such a request is not received until an acceptable date, the project grades obtained in the first session are automatically taken into account to calculate the second session grade of the course.
The students are wanted to participate in all the sessions and in the factory visit. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| The course is given during the second semester.
The course is given in English. |
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Contacts :
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| Lecturer:
Yasemin ARDA
(yasemin.arda@ulg.ac.be)
Assistant:
Guillaume AMAND
(guillaume.amand@ulg.ac.be) |
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