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Business & Management · Year 3 · Operations, strategy and innovation
S5 Operations and analytics
Master costs and operations, organise the supply chain and inform decisions through data analysis.
236hours of coursework
24weeks at 10 h
3steps
16new courses
3universities
Target skills
- Management accounting: costs, budgets and variances
- Operations management, quality and lean
- Logistics, demand planning and sourcing
- Marketing strategy and mix
- Customer, operations, people and accounting analytics
Semester project
Optimising a product’s supply chain: demand forecast, safety stock, full cost and dashboard, with three costed recommendations.
Courses this semester
- 1University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignIntermediate
Stated prerequisites: Some related experience; statistics recommended
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis Intermediate 21 h 4.7 (1,385) Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions Intermediate 25 h 4.7 (652) Operations Management: Organization and Analysis Intermediate 14 h 4.7 (1,290) Operations Management: Quality and Supply Chain Intermediate 17 h 4.6 (1,232) Developing a Winning Marketing Strategy Beginner 17 h 4.8 (1,786) Developing a Marketing Mix for Growth Beginner 13 h 4.8 (746) - 2Rutgers the State University of New JerseyBeginnerMicrosoft Excel
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Supply Chain Logistics Beginner 10 h 4.7 (11,883) Supply Chain Operations Beginner 12 h 4.8 (4,370) Supply Chain Planning Beginner 14 h 4.7 (3,088) Supply Chain Sourcing Beginner 12 h 4.7 (2,117) Supply Chain Management Strategy — 16 h 4.8 (1,232) - 3University of PennsylvaniaBeginnerMicrosoft Excel
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Customer Analytics — 14 h 4.6 (11,993) Operations Analytics Beginner 12 h 4.7 (5,150) People Analytics — 11 h 4.6 (6,194) Accounting Analytics — 12 h 4.5 (3,029) Business Analytics Capstone Intermediate 16 h 4.5 (780)
Reading
Principles of Accounting, Volume 2: Managerial AccountingOpenStaxCosts, budgets and performance management.Free (OpenStax)
Introduction to BusinessOpenStaxAn overview of business: legal forms, marketing, operations, finance and human resources.Free (OpenStax)
Things to watch
- Value Chain Management (Illinois) assumes basic statistics: S2 prepares for it.
- Supply Chain Management (Rutgers) uses Microsoft Excel for planning.
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