Base Knowledge
Mastery of MS-Excel as an intermediate user.
Basic Statistics Mastery
Teaching Methodologies
Expository classes to present the fundamental concepts supported by the discussion of cases and real life examples.
Classes oriented to problem solving, assisted work and presentation / discussion of works.
Assignments to be done during the semester, with presentation/discussion and written test/exam.
Learning Results
To understand the basic principles of organization and management of companies and organizations, from the strategic level to the operational, providing an integrated view of its processes and different functional areas, with a particular focus on operations management, creating a common domain of knowledge between engineers and managers.
Specifically:
Understand the influence of economic, social, technological and political environments on organizations and the main determinants of the strategic management.
Understand the functioning of a company and the development of its main management policies, in different functional areas.
Master the concept of forecasting and apply some forecasting methodologies.
Identify the different planning horizons of the operations.
Anticipate needs, plan and scale resources, ensuring compliance with goals and optimizing operations.
Apply project planning and control techniques.
Analyze and solve problem, applying the knowledge acquired.
Collect, process and interpret information relating to the management of organizations.
Program
1. Introduction to Management and Organizations. Basic Management concepts. Companies, managers and labourship.
2. Management Policies. Organizational structures. Human Resources Management. Organizational Behavior.
3. Strategic Management. The market orientation of companies; Competitiveness and Resources of Companies; Analysis and strategic formulation. Communication and marketing. The Marketing plan.
4. Forecasting methodologies in management. Demand forecast. Qualitative methodologies and quantitative methodologies.
5. Operations Planning and Programming. Planning horizons: strategic, aggregate and operational. Shop-floor control and production routing. Scheduling.
6. Programming and Materials Management. Capacity Planning. Inventory management with dependent and independent demand. Deterministic models and stochastic models.
7. Project Planning and Control. Graphic networks and critical path determination, CPM and PERT. Agile project management – new approaches.
8. New approachs of production management. Mass production versus Lean production. The Lean Tools. The digital factory.
9. Business Finance. The financial statements. The time value of money and the economic analysis of investment projects.
Curricular Unit Teachers
Ana Carla Vicente VieiraInternship(s)
NAO
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