Inhalte

Procurement Management • Economic Order Quantity • Warehouse Types • Inventory Analysis Methods • Inventory levels and Inventory valuation • Ordering under Uncertainty • Purchasing Process and Procurement Strategies • Model Changes and Product Discontinuity • Sourcing Strategies and Dependencies • Purchasing Simulation under Uncertainty Production Management • Work Preparation and Work Plan Creation • Bill of Materials Types and System Integration • Material and Information Flow • MRP and ERP Systems • Production Organization and Resource Management • Assembly Systems and Production Capacity Utilization • Production Systems and Production Principles • Simultaneous Bottleneck Optimization • Process Optimization, Production and Demand Planning • Overall Planning and Order Control • Production Line Design Logistic Management • Transportation, transportation methods, • transportation planning, transportation optimization • Route and Journey planning • Supply chain Optimization • Dynamic Effects and Bullwhip Effect • Supply Chain Simulation Industrial Purchase and B2B Negotiations • Importance of Procurement for Production Networks • Segmentation of purchased parts • Negotiation Training • Types of Negotiations • Negotiation Strategies • Cultural peculiarities Product Development • Product Design and Product Structures • Variety and Variant Management • Modularization and Complexity Management • Project Planning, Critical Path Scheduling, • Incentives and Network Planning Techniques Globalization and Global Production • Phases of Globalization • Causes of Accelerated Globalization • Goals of Global Production • Location-Specific Manufacturing Technology • Simple parts: Establishment of Local Procurement • More complex parts: Targeted Local Skills Development • Design of Global Production Networks • Management of Global Networks

Lernziele

After completing this module, students will be able to: • Apply key concepts and tools of Operations Management (according to contents) • Select and confidently apply appropriate methods of Operations Management • Independently expand their knowledge in Operations Management • Analyse and structure complex tasks in Operations Management • Generate and implement new ideas in Operations Management • Continually prepare and evaluate source material of Operations Management • Assess current trends in Operations Management • Present ideas and concepts confidently and convincingly

Prüfungsleistung

• Two individual exercises (Calculation and/or text approx. three page each) for 5% each (total 10%) • Group exercise A (Calculation and/or text approx. 6 written pages) for 10% • Group exercise B (Text approx. 6 written pages) with presentation (approx. 30 minutes) for 10% • Written exam of 85 minutes for 70%

Literatur (6)

Jacobs, Chase, Operations and Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill/Irwin 2014
Slack, Brandon-Jones, Johnston, Operations Management, Pearson 2013
Bozarth, Handfield, Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management, Pearson 2013
Hill, Hill, Essential Operations Management, Basingstoke 2011
Stevenson, Operations Management, McGraw-Hill Irwin 2009
Case studies will be announced at the beginning of the course