2019/20 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5965M Operations and Supply Chain Management

15 creditsClass Size: 200

Module manager: Gary Graham
Email: g.graham@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Sep to 30 Nov View Timetable

Year running 2019/20

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

This module aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in Operations and Supply Chain Management. The module covers the relevant fundamental theory and practices for these key functions. The module gives an insight into the diversity of the functions and what the key issues and concerns are related to strategy, design, planning & control and improvement.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the nature and significance of Operations and Supply Chain Management as an organizational practice.
- Critically analyse the role and typical responsibilities of the Operations and Supply Chain Manager.
- Apply key theories relevant to Operations and Supply Chains to various contexts
- Critique the impact on the Operations and Supply Chain Management functions of organizational pressures and other external forces – including understanding the pressures for ethical and sustainable behaviors.
- Critique approaches to innovation management in this context.

Skills outcomes

1. This module aims to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in Operations and Supply Chain Management.
2. The module covers the relevant fundamental theory and practices
for these key functions.
3. The module gives an insight into the diversity of the functions and what the key issues and concerns are related to strategy, design, planning & control and improvement.

Discipline specific skills:
1. To be able to analyse and critique contemporary issues in operations and supply chain management.
2. To be able to apply relevant operations and supply chain management theories and models to a range of organizational contexts.

Transferable skills:
1. To communicate as an effective operations/supply chain manager.
2. To work within an operations/supply chain team.
3. To organize production/supply chain activity.

Syllabus

- The nature of operations and supply networks; the role of management; systems approaches and other key theoretical lenses.
- Operations management; concepts, models, tools and strategies.
- Supply chain management: concepts, models, tools and strategies.
- Strategy: strategic role of operations and supply chain management; innovation management.
- Design: network and value chain design; operations design for goods and services; process design; layout design; role of technology.
- Planning and control: supply chain planning and management; capacity planning; scheduling; inventory and purchasing; project planning.
- Philosophies: supply chain management; material requirement planning; distributed resource planning; lean; total quality management and six sigma; quality gurus; quality planning and control techniques; philosophies as management innovation.
- Improvement: continuous vs. radical improvement; performance measurement and benchmarking of supply chains and operations.
- Challenges for innovation, change and for ethical and sustainable behaviour.
- Future of Operations Management.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
On-line Learning	5	1.00	5.00
Workshop	5	2.00	10.00
Lecture	5	2.00	10.00
Private study hours			125.00
Total Contact hours			25.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

We design supporting on-line material to enhance and develop student ability to independently solve operational problems whilst deepening their understanding of the taught content. We use a mixture of short quizzes and guided reading, indicative questions and summary case exercises, online problems, real life issues often as they are breaking news (i.e. the horsemeat scandal, Amazon) , future trends, short simulations. The formal assessment will require the student work in groups, be effective in their time management and combine their joint academic skills effectively. They will research a current operational problem and prepare a presentation outlining their solution. Furthermore, we supply web links to newspaper articles and live online interviews for the students to read and watch in their own time. Usually with accompanying questions for them to answer. The structure material supplied guides the student to solve problems and answer questions in an interesting and time efficient format.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

During the sessions the student will receive feedback and be able to monitor your progress on an ongoing basis through class discussion and student presentations during sessions focused on the case studies. Where applicable outline solutions will be provided, however the student should bear in mind that with many case studies there is no one correct solution. Outside of the sessions, they will be given the opportunity for feedback via telephone and/or email discussions with the LUBS tutors. This will enable them to further monitor your progress. This should enable the student to benchmark your progress and identify areas where they can improve.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Oral Presentation	Group presentation	30.00
Report	2,500 word report	70.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Resit is by 2 hour exam for 100% of the module mark

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 30/04/2019

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