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.
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.
Extra study material during the course can be put on Canvas.
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.
The task is also meant to learn how to work in team.
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:
Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Grades from the task can be kept for the second session.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Accountancy-fiscaliteit of Financie- en verzekeringswezen (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Logistiek Management of Professionele bachelor toegepaste informatica (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Marketing (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Engineering: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Industriƫle wetenschappen of Ingenieurswetenschappen (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Minor Political Science (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Minor Law (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Minor Sociology (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Minor Philosophy and Moral Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Minor Management and Policy in Health Care (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Accountancy-fiscaliteit of Financie- en verzekeringswezen (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Logistiek Management of Professionele bachelor toegepaste informatica (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Verkort traject na vooropleiding Professionele bachelor Bedrijfsmanagement met Afstudeerrichting Marketing (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Business Economics: Minor Minor Education (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Photonics Engineering: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Physics and Astronomy: Minor Economy and Business
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Business Economics: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)