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BUSI46Y15: OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (TAUGHT)

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Type Tied
Level 4
Credits 15
Availability Not available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Management and Marketing

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • Operations and Supply Chain Management (Online)

Aims

  • To provide students with an in-depth understanding at an advanced level of the complexities of managing operations and supply chains.

Content

  • Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management.
  • The Design Process.
  • Inventory Planning and Control.
  • Quality Planning and Control.
  • Purchasing and Supply Base.
  • Buyer-Supplier Relationships.
  • Information and Demand.
  • e-Supply Chains.
  • Logistics and Future Trends.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • To be able to understand the challenges involved in identifying, acquiring and managing the various resources which are required in both manufacturing and service industries.
  • To be familiar with the language required to discuss the use of these techniques with functional experts.
  • To have specialist knowledge of the pitfalls in trying to manage such complexity within the business environment.
  • To have a critical appreciation of the assumptions, implications and limitations of operations and supply chain management.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • To be able to recognise the need/opportunity to use the main operations and supply chain management techniques

Key Skills:

  • Written communication;
  • planning, organising and time management;
  • problem solving and analysis;
  • using initiative;
  • computer literacy.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of taught input, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading and specially-written self-study material.
  • The summative assessment of the module is designed to test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge and critical understanding, and skills of application and interpretation within the business context.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Workshops (a combination of taught input, groupwork, case studies and discussion), timetabled in blocks24 
Preparation and reading126 
Total150 

Summative Assessment

Component: AssignmentComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Individual written essay3,000 words100Same

Formative Assessment

Group-based discussions and case study exercises.

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