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KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The course aims to give to the students the competences necessary to support Operations Management Departments of manufacturing companies.
In more detail, the course allows the students to:
- understand the strategic importance of using Operations to compete, as the benefits deriving from supply chain integration;
- know the key process strategy decisions, the main inventory control systems, the Operations planning strategies;
- understand the strategic relevance of adopting innovative systems of Operations management.

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The course aims to support the students to:
- analyse processes evaluating the performances of Operations systems;
- conducting economic analysis of new projects;
- comparing different inventory control systems;
- evaluating constraints and costs of different Operations planning strategies;
- supporting resource planning according to the Material Requirements Planning system (MRP);
- scheduling jobs at a workstation applying the different priority sequencing rules.

MAKING JUDGEMENTS
In the end of the course, the student is able to compare the main Operations Management decisions as to support the Operations Managers to take decisions.

COMMUNICATION
The student is able to interact and to communicate with the Operations Managers, as he learned the basic technical language spoken in Operations Management.

LIFELONG LEARNING SKILLS
In the end of the course, the student learned the competences necessary to enroll for Operations Management specialization and master programs.