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Principles of Operations management

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The main objective of this course is to provide students with a broad understanding and knowledge of operations management concepts, methods and tools used in both service-oriented and product-oriented organizations to gain a competitive edge. By the end of the course the students will be able to: • Demonstrate knowledge on production planning and control systems in industrial environment • Develop mathematical models describing actual and hypothetical production systems to the optimal utilization of resources • Solve production and operation management problems • Work in teams to formulate and solve real life case studies
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Climate Action

Requirements

MDP432

Description

  • English Description

    Competitiveness, Strategy and Productivity, Forecasting and time series analysis (qualitative techniques: Sales force polling, Customers’ opinion, Delphi technique, Quantitative techniques: Smoothing methods, Averaging Methods, Linear regression), Product and service design, Capacity planning (defining capacity, rough-cut capacity planning, detailed capacity planning), Aggregate production planning,
  • Arabic Description

    Competitiveness, Strategy and Productivity, Forecasting and time series analysis (qualitative techniques: Sales force polling, Customers’ opinion, Delphi technique, Quantitative techniques: Smoothing methods, Averaging Methods, Linear regression), Product and service design, Capacity planning (defining capacity, rough-cut capacity planning, detailed capacity planning), Aggregate production planning,
  • Department
    Design and Production Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (25) + tr.Major Assessment (30 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 15% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 20% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
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  • - F. Robert Jacobs and Richard Chase (2020). Operations and Supply Chain Management.16th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN10: 1260238903 ISBN13: 9781260238907.
  • - Heizer, Jay; Render, Barry; Munson, Chuck (2017). Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, 12th ed, England. Pearson Education Limited.