Diseño de Sistemas de Operaciones (18BBA40002)
General information
Type: |
OB |
Curs: |
2 |
Period: |
S semester |
ECTS Credits: |
4 ECTS |
Teaching Staff:
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
Language |
| Sec: A |
Ignasi Alguero Redonnet |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
CAT |
| Sec: A |
Annachiara Longoni |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
CAT |
| Sec: A |
Enrique Herreiz Bordas |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
CAT |
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
Language |
| Sec: B |
Annachiara Longoni |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
ESP |
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
Language |
| Sec: C |
Ignasi Alguero Redonnet |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
CAT |
| Sec: C |
Annachiara Longoni |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
CAT |
Workload distribution
Workload distribution:
Lectures: 20 hours
Participatory sessions: 20 hours
Independent Study: 60 hours
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
The course contributes to the programme by ensuring that students:
1. Master the basic language related to the business world, introducing the fundamental concepts and tools for operations management.
2. Develop the necessary skills that enable them to form both a comprehensive and broad vision of organisations and the environment in which they operate beyond their functional aspects.
3. Develop an analytical capacity and systemic vision of complex organisations in order to undertake business modelling and search for the best solution for an organisation when understood as a whole.
Course Learning Objectives
On completing this course students should:
1. Understand the Operations function as an area in organizations that transforms inputs into outputs and thereby generates value for the end customer.
2. Be familiar with the current perspectives on operations management, which include innovation, production, logistics and quality.
3. Be aware of how operations can generate value in industrial and service companies through greater efficiency, quality, product and/or service innovation, etc.
4. Know how to define an operations strategy on the basis of a competitive strategy.
5. Be aware of the existence of methods and tools developed through research to solve problems and know how to use them.
6. Know how to model complex organisational systems and apply methods and tools that enable us to find an optimum solution for operation planning problems, service design and improvement and, finally, project planning and control.
7. Take full advantage of the results obtained and use them as the basis for management and/or strategic decision-making.
Competences
| 18. Teamwork and collaboration |
| 2. Application of knowledge to achieve results |
| 1. Knowledge acquisition, comprehension and structuring |
| 4. Conveying information and/or knowledge |
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CONTENT
1. Introduction to Operations |
2. Operations strategy in industrial firms |
3. Operations strategy in service companies |
4. Location decisions |
5. Capacity decisions |
6. Decisions to produce versus to buy (outsource) |
7. Project management |
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Methodology
ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN
| Description |
% |
| Individual exam(s) |
50 |
| Case studies and exercises |
30 |
| Class Participation |
20 |
Assessment criteria
The exam counts for the 50% of the final grade. A minimum mark of 5 out of 10 is required to pass the course.
Case studies and exercises: The average final grade for the case studies will be adjusted according to the peer evaluation. Each member of the team will assess their fellow team members on the basis of their collaboration and participation.
Both at the first sitting of the exam (January) and the exam resit (June), the final mark for the course will be calculated according to the following percentages: 50% individual exams + 30% average mark for case studies adjusted to the peer evaluation + 20% participation and individual tests.
Bibliography
Short bibliography:
Krajewski, L.; Ritzman, L.; Malhotra, M.: (2012): Operations Management: Process and Supply Chains. Pearson. 10th Edition.
Timetable and sections
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
| Sec: A |
Ignasi Alguero Redonnet |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
| Sec: A |
Annachiara Longoni |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
| Sec: A |
Enrique Herreiz Bordas |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
Timetable Sec: A
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
| Sec: B |
Annachiara Longoni |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
Timetable Sec: B
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
| Sec: C |
Ignasi Alguero Redonnet |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
| Sec: C |
Annachiara Longoni |
Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences |
Timetable Sec: C
