Manuel Filipe Mouta Lopes

Production management
Operations management
Organizations

After successfully going through this unit, the student should be able to understand the logic or working of the main areas of Operations management, to manage stocks, apply methods like Kanban and just in time, optimize the costs related to stock administration and apply methodologies of production management such as PERT, critical path and Gantt scheme.

1. Introduction to production management
2. Means of production and forecast of demand
3. Production: Scheduling and Aggregate Planning
4. Methods of Project Management 
4. Stock management, just in time and MRP
6. Statistical quality control

Coursebook:
ROLDÃO, Victor Sequeira; RIBEIRO, Joaquim Silva (2014), Gestão das operações, Lisboa, Monitor

Complementary Bibliography:
COURTOIS, A.; PILLET, M.; MARTIN, C. (2007), Gestão da Produção, Lisboa, LIDEL.
CHASE; JACOBS; AQUILANO (2006), Administração da Produção e Operações para Vantagens Competitivas, McGraw-Hill.
PINTO, J. P. (2010) Gestão de operações na indústria e nos serviços, Lisboa, Lidel.
RODRIGUES, R. (2008), Introdução à Gestão das Operações, Lisboa, Rei dos Livros

E-learning.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).

Good computer skills; Word processing; Internet