1GE303 Operations

Management

Course Introduction

 The main objective of the course is to provide the students with

a sound understanding of the concepts, techniques, and

applications of production and operations management.
At the end of the course students are expected to be able to:

Identify strategic areas in operations and propose solutions

Manage inventories

Plan capacities and identify critical resources

Make production plans and operations schedules

Define and reformulate layouts

Understand the main ideas of Just-In-Time

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Course Outline
1. Introduction to Production Systems

2. Product and Process Design

3. Inventory management
4. Aggregate Production Planning
5. Materials Requirements Planning

Test on these topics on November 3 at 18:00.

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Course Outline
6. Operations Scheduling

7. Facility Layout
8. Project Management
9. Quality Management
10. Just-In-Time Production (JIT) and Lean thinking

Test on these topics on December 16 at 17:30.

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Evaluation
1.

Regular examination period (poca normal).

1.

Distributed evaluation without final exam

a.

Two tests (50% + 30%) and assignments (class

attendance and/or work) (20%) or

b.

Two tests (50% + 50%).

2.

Final exam, open book on January 20 at 8:30.

3.

Reassessment examination period (poca de

recurso) or classification improvement.
Final exam, open book on February 3 at 11:30.
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Bibliography
Operations management for competitive advantage, 11th Edition,

R. Chase and F. R. Jacobs, and N. Aquilano, McGraw-Hill, 2006

Course contents
Topics
Book
chapters

10

1 4, 5, 6 15 14 16 17 6, 11 3

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Communication
1.

Materials will be available through Sigarra

2.

Pay attention to official email

3.

Do not let the email box become full

4.

Dalila Fontes
Office 234
Email: fontes@fep.up.pt