Graduate Certificate in Competitive Systems and Practices - MSS80316
Vative
Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Postgraduate
CRICOS:
This qualification reflects the role of individuals exercising leadership or change management functions in an organisation using lean principles and other competitive systems and practices.This qualification provides specialised skills and knowledge in competitive systems and practices with an emphasis on value chain liaison and development of a supporting culture within an organisation. It builds on previously acquired skills and knowledge and applies to team leaders, managers and technical experts responsible for implementing competitive systems and practices in an organisation or who are working in part of a value chain linked to an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices.No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
Structure
4 electives
Subjects
- Design an experiment
- Lead a process to determine and solve root cause for a complex problem
- Review operations practice tools and techniques
- Audit the use of competitive tools
- Identify and respond to external sustainability factors for an organisation
- Capture learning from daily activities in an organisation
- Undertake a qualitative review of a process change
- Facilitate improvements in the external value stream
- Analyse data for relevance to organisational learning
- Analyse cost implications of maintenance strategy
- Develop models of future state operations practice
- Develop a Balanced Scorecard
- Manage benchmarking studies
- Analyse process changes
- Review continuous improvement processes
- Develop problem solving capability of an organisation
- Design a process layout
- Determine process loss through mass or energy balancing
- Lead sustainable strategy deployment
- Develop the value stream
- Improve visual management in the workplace
- Respond to a major non-conformance
- Undertake value analysis of product or process costs in terms of customer requirements
- Prepare for and implement change
- Develop quick changeover procedures
- Adapt a proactive maintenance strategy for a seasonal or cyclical business
- Introduce competitive systems and practices to a small or medium enterprise
- Apply the theory of constraints
- Facilitate improvements in the internal value stream
- Analyse and determine organisational risk areas in sustainability
- Develop the competitive systems and practices approach
- Develop a levelled pull system for operations and processes
- Optimise cost of a product or service
- Apply environmental legislation, codes and standards
- Build relationships between teams in an operations environment
- Develop and refine systems for improvement in operations
- Develop sustainable energy practices
- Develop a proactive maintenance strategy
- Determine and improve process capability
- Manage application of six sigma for process control and improvement
- Develop knowledge systems and learning processes for an organisation
- Adapt a proactive maintenance strategy to the process operations sector
- Manage a value stream
- Analyse and map a value stream
- Develop workplace policy and procedures for environmental sustainability
- Manage 5S system in an organisation
- Optimise office systems to deliver to customer demand
Standard entry requirements
Entrants to the MSS80316 Graduate Certificate in Competitive Systems and Practices are required to have one or more of the following:a Certificate IV qualification or higher in competitive systems and practices, management, technical or related disciplinework experience at a team leader or technical specialist role or higher in an organisation.
Further information
For the purposes of this qualification the term 'vocational practice' is defined as experience in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices with responsibility for implementation for a team, area, site or part of the value chain of the organisation. A relevant qualification should include aspects of administration, operations, office administration, logistics or manufacturing processes, including features such as productivity measurement, efficiency and effectiveness.
