BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Business & Media

MODULE: Operations Management

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 36 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

The goal of this program is to show the principles of operations and how they relate to making a firm more competitive. Another objective is to teach the strategic importance of good supply chain design, planning, and operation for every product. The operations manager should understand how weaknesses in supply chain design, planning, and operation can hurt the performance of a firm. This program identifies inventory, transportation, information, and facilities as the key drivers of successful operations management.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Operations Planning & Control

Supplier Quality Management

Academic Supervisor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Operations Planning & Control

This course addresses the need for planning and control in operations management. It shows how to identify operations problems and how and use software tools and new technologies to implement solutions. Operations problems covered are demand forecasting, aggregate planning and scheduling, material requirements, just-in-time systems, facility location, inventory planning, and personnel scheduling.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

Supplier Quality Management

This course reviews supplier quality assurance principles and techniques stressing the methods for obtaining quality products and services from suppliers. It discusses supplier evaluation and selection, communication of quality requirements, legal aspects, performance measurements and solving supplied item quality problems.

Instructor: Fouad A. Assaf

Transportation & Logistics

This course emphasizes the optimization of managing, planning and controlling all the steps of the transportation process from supplier to customer. It covers various transportation modes, tactical and strategic uses of freight consolidation, warehousing operations, and international shipping. It deals with the logistics choices and decisions on strategic, tactical and operational levels.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

Production Strategy

This course shows the importance of production planning, control and strategy in modern manufacturing organizations. It covers production and operations strategy, subjective and objective forecasting, inventory planning and control. It also reviews Just-in-time Production (JIT), Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), and Optimized Production Technology (OPT).

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

Manufacturing Systems Integration

This course explains the need for the integration of manufacturing systems, and deals with the multitude of practical problems involved with it. Engineering details covered include the types of communication links available between systems, communication standards, and hardware platform alternatives. Management concepts covered include the top-down design/bottom-up implementation approach to system integration, long-range planning and management of integration projects, security issues, and human factors.

Instructor: Earle Taylor

Supply Chain Management

This course focuses on the analysis and management of material and information flows throughout the supply chain, including aspects of product design and configuration, inventory modeling and planning, network configuration, and supply channel flow management and forecasting.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

This course explores manufacturing principles, metal cutting technology, and forms and methods of computer integrated manufacturing. It explains the planning, combination and design of machines, robots and control systems for handling equipment and manufacturing, and the integration of information and material flow in manufacturing to develop a successful computer integrated manufacturing strategy.

Instructor: Patrice Boisseau

Logistics

This program addresses today's complexity of logistics. Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and occasionally security.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

Software & Hardware Management

This course explains the use of hardware and software functions to solve applications and needs commonly found in information technology systems, computer environments, database systems, networks, peripherals, and telecommunication systems.

Instructor: John Stanley Bircham

Automation Management

This course is an evolutionary process perspective on technology strategy, automation and innovation. It covers managing innovation, technology life cycles, forecasting, and managing R&D, personnel and projects, to emerge with the knowledge of how to integrate technology and automation to further develop the firm's technological competencies and capabilities. It also covers current methods, tooling and associated equipment that is used for automated processes in industry today.

Instructor: Earle Taylor

Process Improvement Management

This course focuses on technical and teaming skills necessary to be an advocate for quality in a process. Topics include: understanding quality, the improvement cycle, quality tools, eliminating complexity from work, and implementing quality in processes, activities and organizations. It also covers statistical process control and methods employed in the assurance of product conformance to quality specifications. It provides an analytical approach to solving problems in quality engineering process design and costs.

Instructor: Earle Taylor

Operations Management

This course provides an analytical approach to solving problems in production and operations management. It examines quantitative methods for designing and analyzing manufacturing operations, simulation of manufacturing operations, and recent issues in manufacturing including just-in-time production, synchronous manufacturing, and agile manufacturing. It also covers current competitiveness-enhancing techniques like continuous improvement, benchmarking, and business process re-engineering.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.