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MBA - Supply Chain Management

Managing Operations

Programme Objectives

The programme aims to provide graduates and working professional who desire of becoming successful consultants in the competitive consulting industry, with first-hand knowledge of the tools and techniques used by successful consultants in the competitive management consulting industry. They will get a detailed understanding of the global consulting industry; how it works, its dominant players, key success factors and the management issues that drive it.

The MBA - Management Consultancy is a specialist high value Professional Masters Degree developed in collaboration with the International Professional Managers Association-UK, in consultation with the West Africa Federation of Institutes of Administration & Management Consultants, thus giving the degree the critically important professional flavour that is often lacking in many academic qualifications of its nature.

Benefits

At the end of the programme the successful student will have the ability to:

  1. Develop a business strategy through their understanding of
    • Management Processes
    • Management Functions
    • Strategic Management
    • Individual Behaviour
    • Group Behaviour
  2. Develop analytical and critical skills to evaluate new concepts, techniques and arguments in organisational and project management
  3. Develop research skills to advise clients to improve their business and management effectiveness
  4. Develop communication skills to explain and justify range of options devised for the benefit of their clients
  5. Advise clients on restructuring and improving business performance
  6. Exercise creativity in solving management and business problems
  7. Enable the student to improve their career and entrepreneurship prospects
  8. Enable the student to have the confidence to apply knowledge and understanding to improve business practices in diverse business and cultural environments

Programme Content

Overview

This module focuses on the following issues:

  • Critical evaluation of the operations management philosophies of “push” and “pull”.
  • Examination of the practicality of the philosophies of flexibility and agility currently being explored by many large organisations around the world.
  • Development of thinking regarding the manner by which organisations can gain competitive advantage from managing their operations in an innovative and strategic way.

Student centered learning will be strongly encouraged and developed. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning will be infused into the teaching-learning-assessment strategies.

Group discussion, case analysis and self directed learning resources will be available to support the delivery and the appropriate assessment tools / tasks will be used to assess the intended learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • Critically evaluate the established approaches to managing operations from both a strategic and tactical viewpoint.
  • Develop and justify a strategic operations management approach for an organisation.
  • Evaluate the transformations required to change the operations philosophy of an organisation.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to strategic operations management
  • Operations strategies
  • Operations management and product design
  • Capacity planning
  • Work Study, Diplomacy And Sensitivity
  • The management of the inventory
  • Facility layout and flow
  • Business process re-engineering and quality management

Resources

  • Course Materials provided by IPE.
  • Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers, Operations Management, 6th Edition, 2009, FT Prentice Hall.
  • Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Operations Management, 9th Edition, 2010, Pearson International Edition.
  • Online resources on OCTAL Portal
  • Online data bases from IPE’s E Library