TPPE16 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Industriell ekonomi
Manufacturing Strategies
Active · next start HT 2026
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TEN2 · 24 Oct 2025 · 61 students
100%
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TEN2 · 61 students
Part of 3 programmes
Exam
TEN2 Witten examination
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Ordinary exams
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Re-exams
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
PRA4 Project
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UPG1 Assignment
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UPG4 Cases, group assignment
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UPG5 Case
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PRA3 Project
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Other module
KTR1 Written examination
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Later rounds
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- Get 4 or 5: 91% (139 students)
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About the course
Aim
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
- describe and analyze problems in Operations strategy for different industries
- describe and reflect upon terms in Operations strategy
- apply the most common models for analysis of an Operations strategy for a factory in new settings
- apply the most common models for analysis of Operations strategy for Supply networks and international manufacturing networks
Content
- Manufacturing Strategy: Relationship to corporate strategy and functional strategies. Manufacturing philosophies.
- Competitive Priorities: Quality, delivery speed and reliability, cost effeceincy, flexibility. Order winners and order qualifiers. Special focus on manufacturing flexibility: different types of and means of providing flexibility.
- Manufacturing Strategy Content: Strategic issues and operations regarding capacity, facilities, process vertical integration, quality, organization, and control systems, expecially manufacturing planning and control systems.
- International manufacturing networks
- Performance Measurement: Productivity. Different types of measures for feedback to different planning and control levels.
- Supply Chains
- Sustainability related to long term planning of manufacturing
- Industry 4.0, Smart factories, IT as manufacturing strategy
- Examiner
- Veronica Lindström
- Scheduled hours
- 34 h
- Main field of study
- Industriell ekonomi