N91448 Operations Management

The course aims to provide a first knowledge base on the problems of operating industrial plants and to provide students with the necessary knowledge, on the one hand, to identify the competitive objectives of a production system and, on the other hand, to orient the choices that characterize the management accordingly, respecting the technological, plant and financial constraints imposed by the context. 

At the end of semester the student will be able to:

measure the efficiency and effectiveness performance of a production system;
choose the alternative investment in production investment looking only at significant revenue and cost items;
calculate the variable unit cost of production in the case of complex production processes characterized by waste;
formulate a sales forecast;
formulate an aggregate production plan;
formulate a MRP plan or give the specifications to those who have to develop a tool to support the generation of the operational plan.

• introduction to production systems and their classification;
• the performance of production systems;
• production flows;
• the costs for decisions and the variable cost of production;
• introduction to planning;
• demand forecast for planning;
• aggregate planning;
• materials management;
• schedluing;
• bases of just in time production.

Each class will be composed of a frontal lecture combined with practical sessions represented by numerical exercises and real-life case studies.

The exams will be closed books and closed notes and are constituted by a written test with exercises and open questions focused on the topics studied during the classes.

The same kind of exam will be for the 1st exame date in summer 2020.