Operations and Logistic Management

6 ECTS credits
167 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1020402BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Studenten die dit opleidingsonderdeel opnemen, moeten minstens 30 ECTS-credits op bachelorniveau behaald hebben. Studenten die ingeschreven zijn in de verkorte bachelor toegepaste economische wetenschappen: handelsingenieur, kunnen inschrijven voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool

Department

Business Technology and Operations

Educational team

Philippe Lebeau (course titular)
Arne Vanhoyweghen
Soukaina Bayri

Activities and contact hours

24 contact hours Lecture
27 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
116 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

These series of lectures and exercises will deal with operations and logistics management and the decision support systems that can be used in this area. Operations management is the business function responsible for planning, coordinating, and controlling the resources needed to produce a company's products and services. The logistics functions has to provide the different resources at the right time on the right place. The overall aim is to advocate principles and to recommend tools for investigating managerial decision problems via so-called prescriptive models with the ultimate goal of providing decision-makers with means for finding good solutions to realistic decision problems. The role of operations and logistics in an organization is described, along with operations decisions that are made. The differences between manufacturing and services are described. The history and current trends of operations management are discussed. The interaction between operations and other business functions are described. We will see the different types of decisions to be taken ranging from strategic decisions (such a deciding on an operations strategy and deciding which where to locate a facility) to more tactical and even operational decisions.

Course material

Handbook (Required) : Operations Management, An integrated approach, Reid, Dan R.; Sanders, Nada R., 7de, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 9781119668176, 2020
Digital course material (Recommended) : De slides die gebruikt worden tijdens de lessen, zullen beschikbaar, Canvas

Additional info

Extra study material during the course can be put on Canvas.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

In this course the concepts of Supply Chain Management will be learned in depth. The link towards practice will be kept very close by inviting guest speakers from the field. Insights on how chosen supply chain concepts are influencing the sustainability of the whole system, should be a focus of the students after this course.

Team work

The task is also meant to learn how to work in team.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 75% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 25% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Written Exam with a relative weight of 75 which comprises 75% of the final mark.

Note: schriftelijk examen (gesloten boek, formularium wordt voorzien) dat de inhoud van de hoorcolleges, gastcolleges en oefeningensessies behandelt. Het examen kan bestaan uit meerkeuzevragen met giscorrectie, open vragen en oefeningen.

Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Group Assignment with a relative weight of 25 which comprises 25% of the final mark.

Note: door middel van peer assessment wordt bij de beoordeling van de taak rekening gehouden met de individuele bijdrage.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Grades from the task can be kept for the second session.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context