Master in Operations and Logistics Management
Escuela de Negocios Alto Nivel - Universidad Panamericana de Guatemala
Key Information
Campus location
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Languages
Spanish
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
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Pace
Part time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Jul 2024
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Introduction
The Master's Degree in Operations and Logistics Management is defined as the most advanced studies, from a professional and academic perspective, in the direction and management of operations and logistics. The challenges of the business environment demand professionals capable of creating and running companies of all kinds at a national and international level. Given this, the Master's Degree in Operations Management and Logistics from Universidad Panamericana, pursues the training of professionals in the areas where they participate as part of the supply chain, in the assumption of responsibilities and in the development of the main competencies directives of this branch.
To this end, the Master's Degree presents a learning and specialization program in the best management practices and in the development of the necessary skills and attitudes that facilitate decision-making and the resolution of operations and logistics problems, which students as executives in the real world and in their day-to-day life they can face and carry out all these procedures and decision-making based on and relying on business simulators from the technological partner CompanyGame®. It is the perfect option for those who want to run the operations and logistics area within a company or corporation and have excellent analytical skills, since they will have to learn to provide market solutions with real and potential customers.
The Directors of Operations have a very strong relationship with the other areas of the company, but the central work of the operations and logistics professional guarantees that the process of production and delivery of goods is carried out in the most appropriate way, responding to market demand. same. Students who access and fully pass the Master's Degree in Operations Management and Logistics from Universidad Panamericana , in addition to having these acquired skills and knowledge, access a degree with validation endorsed by CEPS
Modality
100% online with specialized tutors.
Professional field
It is the perfect option for those who want to run the operations and logistics area within a company or corporation and have excellent analytical skills, since they will have to learn to provide market solutions with real and potential customers. The Directors of Operations have a very strong relationship with the other areas of the company, but the central work of the operations and logistics professional guarantees that the process of production and delivery of goods is carried out in the most appropriate way, responding to market demand. same. It is in this relationship that the specialist must demonstrate his skills and knowledge to support and improve the objectives set by the operations and logistics management, which he will develop through this master's degree from Universidad Panamericana (Guatemala) in addition to having these skills and knowledge acquired, access a degree with validation endorsed by the CEPS.
Admission profile
- Professional graduated and graduated at the degree level of any university degree from a university recognized by the CEPS in Guatemala.
- Graduated from engineering or business administration.
- Possess qualities and attitudes towards respect, appreciation and ethical commitment.
- Possess a positive mentality to be able to face and solve problems.
- Want to improve decision-making ability after in-depth analysis.
- Have experience in the areas of production, warehouses, transport, purchases, verifiable of at least 2 years in medium or high positions.
- Comply with the enrollment requirements established at Universidad Panamericana.
Graduation Profile
Evaluate the environment of the company to make pertinent decisions.
Structure strategies for the management of operations and logistics processes for various types of companies.
Design purchasing policies to maximize operating costs
Implement development plans for operations and logistics staff.
Proposes solutions to operational problems of production, storage and transport or anticipates them, through analysis and timely situational diagnosis.
Stimulates the capacity for teamwork among its collaborators during the decision-making process.
Apply management and negotiation skills necessary to ensure success in your working life.
Design logistics planning to place the product in the distribution channels on time.
Design processes under the Lean Six Sigma philosophy to reduce costs due to shrinkage and waste
Study pensum
Bimester 1
- Purchasing and Supplier Management
- Human Resources Department
semester 2
- Inventory management
- business culture
semester 3
- Order and Stock Management
- Strategy Fundamentals
semester 4
- Cost accounting
- Lean Manufacturing
semester 5
- Management and negotiation skills
- Warehouse design and organization
semester 6
- Operations and Production Processes
- logistics planning
semester 7
- Safety and risk prevention in the warehouse
- Operations Directorate
semester 8
- Total quality
- Logistics chain optimization
semester 9
- simulator propaedeutics
- discharge simulator
Egress System
Students will graduate by preparing a final degree project that will be developed in the simulators provided for this purpose. The students will have the support of a specialist and the classroom and face-to-face training of the two previous simulators and their final development with the GlobalMarket model described. This point is possible due to the fact that this Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Universidad Panamericana (Guatemala) is professional in nature, which means that graduates have a completely applied and cutting profile, in this case, managerial. For this reason, the traditional thesis and its preparation are accepted and replaced by the use of simulators provided for this purpose, and the practical application within the virtual environment that is presented of everything learned and received at a theoretical level is evaluated. This will give the student a more enriching and profitable experience for their future by bringing them closer to a business environment in a more direct way.
Discharge Administrative Processes
Students who have closed their curriculum and approved their final report based on what was developed in the Business Simulator III Final Project (described above) in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Universidad Panamericana (Guatemala), must complete the following steps of the administrative process of discharge:
a) Be enrolled in the Universidad Panamericana as a regular student.
b) Request their cash solvency, stating that they have no debts with the University.
c) Request library solvency.
d) Request solvency in Academic Control.
e) With the respective solvencies, request the respective opinions from the faculty secretary.
f) Submit to the Secretary of the Vice-Rectory the printed version of the result of their final work, including the opinions for a last revision of form in the main pages of the document that will be sent to print.
g) When the graduation work is printed, three printed copies and one digital version will be delivered to the central library and one will be filed in the dean's office.