The course is about analyzing, planning, and improving processes that produce goods or services. The course is useful to students who seek careers where they will be involved in the planning process; be it as a planner, a controller, a finance manager or as a management consultant.
After completing the course, the students will be able to:
Knowledge
- Understand the importance of operational planning and the challenges an organisation encounters.
- Understand how operational strategies are developed.
- Understand basic relationships of production processes and how these affect business performance.
- Understand how variability is a major challenge for most businesses.
Skills
- Analyse, plan and improve processes for the production of goods or services.
- Plan and manage production processes in different types of businesses.
- Apply basic analytical methods to make operational decisions.
- Handle variability in operational processes.
Competence
- Use analytical methods to plan and optimize the production of goods or services.