Operations are present in everyday's life in companies, economic press, Internet. During the course, and individually, every student will have to prepare a report of economic press related to operations. The report will consist on a scanned press article and a ppt file with a maximum of 12 slides, in which the student will comment how that article relates to operations and what has been the impact of operations in the event described in the article. The report will emphasize those topics studied during the course that have relation with the article.
For your info the topics studied during course are the following:
Basic Concepts in the Design and Analysis of the Operations,Transformation processes in manufacturing and services,Operations Planning,Just-in-Time and Lean Operations (I): Lean Manufacturing,Just-in-Time and Lean Operations (II): Lean Service,Quality Management,The value of integrated SCM,Supply Chain Management - Main challenges,Supply chain integration for speed.