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Operations Strategy and Execution, 7.5 Higher education credits

Verksamhetsstrategi och implementering, 7,5 Högskolepoäng

Established: 2024-06-04

Established by: Department of Engineering Science

Applies from: H24

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• explain the relationships between corporate strategy and production strategy.
• explain different supply chains, production chains, strategies between supplier and customer, and strategies for growth.
• describe the meaning of differentiation versus cost advantages, technology/process and plant strategy, strategic purchasing and supplier contracts, strategies for customer management, and capacity building.
• demonstrate the ability to critically and systematically integrate knowledge within business strategy to formulate a production strategy in an industrial perspective even with limited information.
• demonstrate the ability to critically, independently, and creatively make assessments for a qualified strategy analysis work.

Entry requirements

General entry requirements and approved result from the following course/courses:

LOV600-Operations and Supply Chain Management or the equivalent.

The forms of assessment of student performance

Groupwise written report. Individual oral presentation.

Course contents

The course is based on operations and supply chain management and builds further to shed light on collaboration between production systems and organizations' strategy design. The course deals with themes such as corporate strategy, business strategy and supply chain in collaboration from a competitiv perspective.

Other regulations

Course grading: F/Fx/E/D/C/B/A - Insufficient, Insufficient- more work required before the credit can be awarded, Sufficient, Satisfactory, Good, Very Good, Excellent

Course language: The teaching is conducted in English.

General rules pertaining to examination at University West are available at www.hv.se.

If the student has a decision/recommendation on special support due to disability, the examiner has the right to examine the student in a customized examination form.

Cycle

Second cycle

Progressive specialization

A1F - second cycle, has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Main field of study

Industrial Engineering and Management