Courses Bachelor Display 2013-2014

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Course title Project and Production Management
Course code EBC2050
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment None
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
4 3-2-2014 4-4-2014 X X
Level Intermediate
Coordinator Peter Bollen
For more information: p.bollen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
The course is directed at the following learning and competences:
- developing an awareness of the range, scope and complexity of the phenomena, issues and problems related to project and production management;
- developing an integrated and process oriented perspective on manging complex projects and team work;
- acquiring competencies in the usage of tools, techniques, methods and models for managing projects and production management.
Description
The development of new products, services and processes is predominantly carried out in project groups. That means that people from different sectors of the organisation are brought together on a temporary basis to accomplish a complex task. The project management part of this course offers an insight in the role of project management in different organisational contexts. Special attention is given to the following issues: project selection, the project manager, project planning, resource allocation and project control. The production management part of this course deals with issues regarding the management of production systems (that have been created as an outcome of a project). In this part of the course the following issues will be discussed: Operations strategy, Process management (Project, job, batch, line, continuous), Capacity, location and lay-out decisions, Inventory Management, Aggregate planning, (Enterprise) Resource planning; ERP, MPS, MRP-I, MRP-II, Lean production systems : JIT, KANBAN
Literature
Dr. Peter Bollen, 2013, Compilation Text Book "Project- and Production Management", Pearson Custom Publishing
Meredith, Mantel, Shafer, Sutton (2011), Project Management in Practice, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons,NJ, ISBN 978-0-470-64620-5
Literature reader
Prerequisites
The prior knowledge of the students on these topics is limited to parts of the organisation & marketing course. Exchange students should have prior knowledge of basic organisational and marketing concepts on an introductory level’
An advanced level of English
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Assignment / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Participation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
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