Undergraduate Course: Management Science and Operations Planning (BUST10020)

Course Outline
School	Business School	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Course type	Standard	Availability	Available to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Credits	20
Home subject area	Business Studies	Other subject area	None
Course website	http://www.bus.ed.ac.uk/programmes/ugpc.html	Taught in Gaelic?	No
Course description	Management Science techniques can be applied to a wide range of problems that arise in planning the operations of many organisations. The Management Science techniques will be selected from inventory management, maintenance and replacement, queueing theory, simulation & dynamic programming. The techniques will be introduced and their application in operations planning will be demonstrated.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	Business Studies Honours entry.
Additional Costs	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	Visiting students should have at least 3 Business Studies courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)			Learn enabled: Yes	Quota: None
Web Timetable	Web Timetable
Class Delivery Information	There will also be 7 optional tutorials (a one-hour tutorial at the end of each of the 5 modules plus 2 computer labs). The 5 review tutorials are Fridays 11.10am-12.00noon on 27 Sept. (Week 2), 11 Oct.(Week 4), 1 Nov.(Week 7), 15 Nov.(Week 9), 29 Nov.(Week 11) in Seminar Room 2.14, Appleton Tower; the 2 COMPUTER LABS are Friday 11.10-12.00noon on 8 November(WEEK 8) and 22 November(Week 10) in Room 1.12 Computer Lab, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place.
Course Start Date	15/09/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 20, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Revision Session Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 172 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info)	Written Exam 80 %, Coursework 20 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name	Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)		2:00

Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)			Learn enabled: No	Quota: None
Web Timetable	Web Timetable
Class Delivery Information	There will also be 7 optional tutorials (a one-hour tutorial at the end of each of the 5 modules plus 2 computer labs). The 5 review tutorials are Fridays 11.10am-12.00noon on 27 Sept. (Week 2), 11 Oct.(Week 4), 1 Nov.(Week 7), 15 Nov.(Week 9), 29 Nov.(Week 11) in Seminar Room 2.14, Appleton Tower; the 2 COMPUTER LABS are Friday 11.10-12.00noon on 8 November(WEEK 8) and 22 November(Week 10) in Room 1.12 Computer Lab, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place.
Course Start Date	15/09/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 20, Revision Session Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Objectives/Learning Outcomes Knowledge & Understanding On completion of the course students should: a) be able to describe the features of practical operations planning problems; b) be able to discuss critically the practical use of the techniques covered; c) be able to solve a range of operations planning problems using the techniques covered. Cognitive Skills On completion of the course students should: a) demonstrate that they can use management science techniques; b) demonstrate that they can discuss the results of their analysis. Key Skills On completion of the course students should: a) demonstrate their ability to apply Microsoft Excel to support the analysis of operations planning problems; b) demonstrate that they can plan and carry out a quantitative analysis of a real-world operations planning problem; c) demonstrate that they can present the findings of a quantitative analysis in a concise written report. Subject Specific Skills On completion of the course students should: a) have developed their modelling skills.

Assessment Information
By one project (max 3,000 words) (20%) and a degree examination (80%). Visiting Student Variant Assessment: Project(max 3,000 words) 50% and One Essay (max 3,000 words) 50%.

Special Arrangements
None

Additional Information
Academic description	Not entered
Syllabus	The course is divided into 5 modules: Inventory Management, Maintenance and Replacement, Queuing, Simulation and Dynamic Programming.
Transferable skills	Not entered
Reading list	There is no set textbook for this course, but the following books will prove useful: 1. Taha H. A., Operations Research � An Introduction, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007. 2. Anderson, D.R. Sweeney, D.J., Williams, T.A. and Martin, K., An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making, Twelfth edition, Thomson South Western, 2007. 3. Taylor, Bernard W., Introduction to Management Science, Ninth edition, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006. 4. Albright, Christian S. and Winston, Wayne L., Management Science Modelling Thomson South-Western, 2005. 5. F.S. Hillier and G.J. Lieberman, Introduction to Operations Research, Fifth edition, McGraw-Hill, 1995. 6. W.L. Winston, Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, Third edition, Duxbury, 1994. 7. S French, R Hartley, L C Thomas and D J White, Operational Research Techniques, Arnold, London, 1986 (Out of print, but in library).
Study Abroad	Not entered
Study Pattern	Not entered
Keywords	MSOP