Course Catalog 2008-2009 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Mikko Kaataja

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 2 : Monday 9 - 13, TB222

Requirements

- Passing grade for exam, based on lectures and literature. - Passing grade for written assignment.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

The course contents are delivered to the students through five different methods: (1) Independent study: the course text book, which students study independently, forms the basic body of knowledge. Students are, through independent study, expected to master the main contents of the book. Supplements and cases support the learning, but are not expected to be mastered in the examination. (2) Lectures: the contents of the course book are enhanced in two ways during the lectures: the most important contents are emphasised, and some issues which receive little attention in the course book are elaborated further. The lectures should therefore provide the students with a solid overall understanding of the basics as well as further insights into the material. (3) Discussions during the lectures: The theory is connected instantly with students’ reality and experiences through small discussions and group exercises during the lectures. This helps students to reflect the material learnt and project it into practise. (4) Exercises: Calculations and other tools are put into practise through guided exercises. (5) Practical assignment: students carry out in groups an independent assignment, where they search information about a specific company and apply the core contents of the course into the information found, reflecting thus the operations management, operation system design and operation strategy in a practical context. Furthermore, the group assignment teaches students co-operation skills, project management and cross-cultural skills as well as business intelligence through the search of information.

Objectives

The objective of this course is to give students an overview of the operations environment, the operation system design and operations management. Lectures will cover a number of components within these themes, while simultaneously providing a forum for students to discuss and share their own views and experiences. Group assignment is intended to supplement the students’ learning through a practical perspective. At the completion of the course students should be able to combine these various aspects and formulate appropriate design and management of operations, to meet the strategic objectives of businesses.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Operations management & operations strategy Introduction to the course; Introduction to Operations Management; Competitiveness, Strategy and Productivity
2.	Production systems design Product and service design, Process selection and facility layout, Design of Work Systems, Location Planning and Analysis
3.	Capacity & Quality Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and Services, Scheduling, Management of Waiting Lines; Management of Quality, Quality Control
4.	Demand Planning & Materials Management Forecasting, Aggergate Planning, Inventory Management, MRP & ERP
5.	Managing the Whole System Project Management, JIT and Lean Operations, Supply Chain Management

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Operations Management	William J. Stevenson			9th ed. 2006, McGraw-Hill/Irwin		English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Lectures: Marja Blomqvist Exercises: Mikko Kaataja For more information visit course Moodle homepage (link below) or contact teta-1406@tut.fi	Lectures Excercises	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	23.06.2009
Modifier	Mikko Kaataja