Basics of industrial engineering and management (OPEN UNI)

From

25.8.2025

5 cr

Operations and productivity, operations strategy, forecasting, accounting and cost accounting, investments and financial planning, sustainability, capacity management, location decisions, layout strategies, human resources management, supply chain management, subcontracting, inventory management, production planning, MRP & ERP, production scheduling, Just-in-Time & Lean operations, maintenance.

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Fields

Engineering and technology

Scope

5 cr

4 components

Code

AY555225P

What you need to know before the course

What you will learn

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to: - describe what industrial engineering and management (or operations management) means - explain the core concepts of business operations and utilise these concepts in describing and analysing operations of an organisation - explain in general terms the factors that affect economic performance of organisations - utilise the terminology used in industrial engineering and management (operations management), describe the financial processes of companies and based on this describe the use of cost accounting in organisational decision-making - calculate unit costs in various simplified settings, calculate various alternatives, as well as perform planning and goal oriented calculations based on given data, and draw conclusions based on the calculation results

Learning material

Additional information

Organiser

Oulun yliopisto

Contact details

avoin.yliopisto@oulu.fi

Belongs to themes:

Change management and analytics