Operations and Project Management

This course focuses on the core elements of Operations and Supply Chain Management, offering students the opportunity to analyze, evaluate, and apply these principles effectively. It introduces key concepts, challenges, and techniques in project management, emphasizing its role in driving strategic change within organizations.

Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how supply chain operations and management contribute to creating and adding value. The module equips learners with the skills to design organizations that achieve high productivity through empowered people, while maintaining accountability, responsibility, and robust quality assurance systems.

Key Focus Areas

Operations Excellence

• Nature and History of Operations: Explore operational models and theories.
• Operations and Management: Understand organizational structures, the role of management, decision-making, and the design, planning, control, and evaluation of operations.
• Quality Management: Learn about quality measurement, standards, costs, and assurance systems.
• Continuous Improvement: Examine methods and theories, including Total Quality Management (TQM), Lean Principles, and Lean Thinking.

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

• Introduction to SCM: Gain insights into the value chain, materials management, and capacity planning.
• Key Topics: Forecasting, quality assurance, work breakdown structures, scheduling, resource management, cost management, and outsourcing.
• Make vs. Buy Decisions: Understand service-level agreements and the integration of supply operations.

Project Management

• Foundations: Introduction to project management principles, including project selection, evaluation, and using projects for strategic change.
• Project Manager Role: Explore career paths, required competencies, and typical challenges faced by project managers.
• Core Functions: Learn about communication, problem-solving strategies, conflict resolution, decision-making, and time management.
• Project Control: Dive into task management, the use of software tools, and handling common project challenges.
• Project Reviews: Understand the necessity and execution of project reviews, along with common management techniques and styles.

What You'll Gain

This module provides a holistic view of how supply chain operations and management create and add value to an organization. Students will learn to design high-performing organizations that achieve productivity through people while ensuring accountability and quality. Contemporary models and theories of world-class operations, with a focus on continuous improvement strategies, are integral to the curriculum.

This course is funded for eligible learners. The Micro-Credential Course Learner Subsidy, under the HCI Pillar 3, offers a subsidy rate of 50 per cent for courses. The fee for eligible applicants is €500

This course is offered over 6 Saturdays and is online;

11th of January, 25th of January, 15th of February, 8th of March, 22nd of March and 5th of April