Operations Management: Course Outline(MBA-Management)

INTRODUCTION

• Introduction to Operations Management
• Competitiveness, Strategy, and Productivity

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT MODELS

• Forecasting
• Decision Making
• Transportation models
• Waiting lines models
• Learning curves

SYSTEM DESIGN

• Product and Service Design: Reliability
• Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and Services:  Decision Theory
• Process Selection and Facility Layout:  Linear Programming
• Design of work systems: Learning Curves
• Location Planning and Analysis:  The Transportation Model

QUALITY

• Management of Quality
• Quality Control:  Acceptance Sampling

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING

• Inventory Management
• Aggregate Planning
• MRP and ERP 
• JIT and Lean Operations:  Maintenance
• Scheduling

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

• Supply Chain Strategies
• Vendor selection, Internet purchasing, Supplier quality and reliability
• Benchmarking
• Types of Facilities and location analysis techniques
• Transportation and distribution system

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Project life cycle
• Project planning
• Project scheduling
• Project monitoring and control
• Project evaluation

LAYOUT STRATEGY

• Basics layouts
• Designing process layouts
• Designing product layouts
• Warehousing and storage  layouts
• Assembly line balancing
• Hybrid Layouts