Busi­ness Ana­lyt­ics - Data Driv­en Op­er­a­tions

Course content

The course delves into operations management decision-making. The aim is to provide students with competences to develop analytical solutions to relevant operations management problems, and thoroughly discuss their implications to drive firm's operations and also to discuss the solutions' implications to big societal challenges. Various aspects of operations management are considered and illustrated through a number of exercises.

The following areas of operations management are considered: supply chain strategy & design, demand forecasting, aggregate planning, inventory management, and supply chain coordination. To each of these areas, the course explores operations management problems through a number of cases and exercises. To solve the cases and exercises, the course explores how to formulate the problem, appraise the input data, identify the quantitative relations, and then implement the solution approach.

Microsoft Excel is used as a solving tool. Note that throughout the course, and in the exam, we will be using Windows PC on CBS computers (Apple users need to work by themselves to adapt to the Windows PC environment).