6 ECTS credits
167 u studietijd
Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1021594BNR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend bachelor niveau.
This series of lectures and exercises deals 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 function 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. In this course, the role of operations and logistics in an organization is described, along with the strategic, tactical and operational decisions that are made. The history and current trends of operations management are discussed and the link towards practice is kept very close by inviting guest speakers from the field.
A fee of approximately 30 euros per student will be charged for participation in the business game “The Fresh Connection”.
Teaching methods
- Lecture: collective contact-dependent moments during which the lecturer engages with learning materials
- Seminar, Exercises or Practicals (Practical): collective or individual contact-dependent moments during which the students are guided to actively engage with learning materials
- Independent or External Form of Study (Self): independent study
This description of the teaching methods is indicative, in order to assess the expected study load.
Lecture: 24 hours (8 x 3 hours)
Practical: 27 hours (9 x 3 hours)
Self: 116 hours
GENERAL COMPETENCES
After following this course, students should be able to define all fundamental concepts in operations management and logistics. They can make strategic, tactical and operational decisions in this domain. Students can solve realistic problems related to demand forecasting, inventory management, sales and operations planning, material requirements planning, statistical quality control, facility layout, job scheduling, capacity planning and facility location decisions, using the tools and models taught in the course. They should also have insight in how particular concepts are influencing the sustainability of the whole supply chain.
TEAM WORK
In the business game “The Fresh Connection”, groups of 4 students run a virtual company and learn to cooperate to achieve a common goal. Next, the students submit a group report related to this business game.
De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 75% van het eindcijfer
Examen Praktijk bepaalt 25% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Binnen de categorie Examen Praktijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Participation in both the Written Exam and the Practical Exam (i.e. playing the business game and submitting the group report) is required to succeed for this course. The mark for the group report is maintained in case of a second-chance exam. The business game can only be played in the first semester according to a fixed schedule.
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor of Business Economics: Business and Technology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Business Economics: International Business (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Master in de ingenieurswetenschappen: werktuigkunde-elektrotechniek: voertuigtechnologie en transport
Master of Electromechanical Engineering: Sustainable Transport and Automotive Engineering (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)