Materials Management HYIT (5cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Objective

Purpose:
Materials management can have a significant impact on a company's profit, logistics efficiency and customer service. In global supply chains and e-commerce, the importance of material management components, such as demand forecasting, inventory level management, selecting production strategy and planning capacity, is becoming increasingly important. In this course you will learn how to plan and manage material flows. After completing this course, you will understand the basic principles, key concepts and theories of material management and their implications for business.

Competencies:
- Investigations and information retrieval
- Knowledge and understanding
- Purchasing
- Intralogistics
- Business

Learning outcomes:
- You will understand the importance of demand forecasting in business and the most common methods of forecasting.
- You will understand the basics and importance of product data management and bill of materials in business point of view.
- You will understand how material flows and inventory levels can be managed and controlled. You understand how to minimize costs of material flow and inventory can be minimize.
- You will understand the basic principles of production control management as well as the different production strategies and their importance for business.
- You will understand how machine, space and personnel capacity is can be determined and understand the basic principles of capacity management.

Content

- Demand forecasting
- Inventory management and material requirements planning
- Product data management
- Production control management
- Capacity management

Materials

Online course materials

Preferred literature:
Introduction to materials management. 2017. Chapman, Stephen N. Harlow : Pearson Education Ltd.

Teaching methods

This is a virtual course. The learning will happen through online lessons, literature and the material in Moodle/Optima.

There will be learning assignment(s) for every course topic.

Exam schedules

There are no exam on this course.

Student workload

Proximally total of 135 hours of work including individual studying and online lectures

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1: Student has gained knowledge at all the subjects described in the learning outcomes.
2: Student has gained knowledge at all the subjects described in the learning outcomes and is able to can utilize this knowledge.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3: Student understands all the subjects described in the learning outcomes and is able to apply the skills one has learned.
4: Student has attained an excellent level in almost all the subjects described in the learning outcomes and is able to apply the skills one has learned.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5: The student has attained an excellent level in all subjects described in the learning outcomes and is able to apply the skills one has learned.

Further information

Course assessment is based on assessment criteria from learning objectives.