Quality Management and Data Driven Decision Making

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Operations Management and Logistics

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 3, 4 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course is designed for students who have some experience with supply chain management methods and practices. It focuses on the international quality systems, e.g. ISO 9000 and other quality systems, which are applicable to supply chains and attracting the attention of the global competitive businesses that aim to implement these methods in the most efficient way.In the first part, the course covers conceptual principles of quality management, its major stakeholders, possible barriers to effective quality management and control, and the cost of quality management to businesses. Following that, the course is focused on techniques for quality management. These techniques include both quantitative and qualitative techniques. Following that the course will present challenges of identifying data, working with it, deriving management decisions based on that.As a concluding part of the course there will be a section on standard management practices and their importance for the company’s efficiency in implementing decisions and improvements.