Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Master in management, professional focus in global supply chain management | 5 crédits | |||
Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course delves into the essential aspects of Operations Management, emphasizing strategic, tactical, and operational planning and control for the production of goods and services. Students will learn how to use effective planning and resource management techniques to meet customer demand.
The course covers a wide range of quantitative decision-making models in operations management and, consequently, students are expected to understand and apply various mathematical models.
The covered topics include capacity planning, lot sizing, scheduling, process improvement, and purchasing.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the concepts tied to strategic, tactical, and operational capacity management.
- Apply quantitative models and methods for decision-making in operations management, particularly for capacity planning, lot sizing, and scheduling.
- Recommend effective resource management strategies to meet customer demand for goods or services in various contexts.
- Evaluate and improve the performance of production processes of goods and services using adequate planning strategies and continuous improvement techniques.
- Understand the main aspects of the purchasing function in companies.
- Develop supplier selection strategies aligned with the organization's objectives.
- Use insights from scientific literature to inform decision-making and problem-solving in real-world operations management scenarios.
- Apply theoretical frameworks from scientific literature to analyze and solve complex operational challenges in supply chain management.
- Utilize analytical tools and specialized software to model and solve operations management problems.
- Effectively communicate analyses and recommendations.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
This course uses several quantitative techniques to solve decision making problems.
Students who take this class should feel comfortable with:
- Basic concepts of supply chain management (including MRP computations) ;
- The normal distribution and its properties ;
- Mixed integer linear programming models such as those introduced in courses of Supply Chain Management and Quantitative Methods in Management (e.g. LOGI0011 and MQGE0005).
Regarding linear programming, the notations related to sums, sets, and index domains are assumed to be known.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Learning activities in the classroom are composed of ex-cathedra lectures, directed exercises and discussions about readings. Some topics may be studied using a flipped approach
Softwares are used to implement and solve some of the studied decision-making models.
Each week, the teacher provides students with material to work on, out of the classroom, for the next course session (e.g. readings of scientific articles, exercises, ...).
Moreover, an optional project is proposed to students who want to deepen their mastery of the studied concepts and their capabilities to implement those concepts in practical environements.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Face-to-face course
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Documents that can be found on the virtual campus Lol@:
1. The PowerPoint presentations used during the lectures will be available on the virtual campus Lol@.
2. Any additional material will also be available on Lol@ (articles, exercises, videos...)
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Further information:
The course grade is the grade obtained for the final written exam.
An optional group project is proposed to the students during the semester and may allow them to improve the exam grade (for both the first and second sessions). However, it is not possible to retake a project during the second session.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The course is given in English during the second semester.
Contacts
Veronique FRANÇOIS (veronique.francois@uliege.be)
HEC Liège, building N1a, office 3/34