Undergraduate - UnitMGX3771 - Operations management

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Daniel Prajogo

Synopsis

Unit covers the major activities within the operations function of businesses, both manufacturing and service. The essential role of operations is to deliver value to customers by providing the right products, at the right quality standard, in the right quantities, at the right times, and doing so at the right cost (efficiently). The key operations activities included in this unit starts from pre-production tasks (designing products and processes), resource and capacity planning, sequencing and scheduling of the operations, supply chain and inventory management, quality control, and improvement methods whereby the system and its procedures are modified in the light of learning process.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

identify and describe the components of the operations management function in different types of organisations
explain operations process planning and control including capacity, scheduling, inventory and materials requirements planning
examine the concepts of managing people and processes as part of a manufacturing system
analyse decision problems in operations and the relationship of operations decisions to other business decisions
communicate in writing the results of analysis of operations.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Daniel Prajogo

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

12 units (72 points)