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COURSE OUTLINE
Course Design Rationale
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The course provides an overview of operations & production management.
Principles and decision analysis related to the effective utilization of the factors
of production in not just production / manufacturing but also in non-
manufacturing activities mainly service sector environment.
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A large canvas has been taken. Accordingly length & breadth, rather than
depth is intentionally behind the detailed course outline design that follows.
Pre-requisites:
Operations management focuses on carefully managing the processes to
produce and distribute products and services.Major overall activities often Basic knowledge of applied
include product creation, development, production and distribution. Mathematics, Operations Research /
Quantitative Methods for Management.
Operations management is in regard to all operations within the organization.
Related activities include managing purchases, inventory control, quality Suited more to MBA first year & B.Tech
control, storage, logistics and evaluations. final year / M.Tech Industrial
Engineering 1st year students.
A great deal of focus is on efficiency and effectiveness of processes.
6 Process Strategy 1
20 Learning Curves
1
21 Work Sampling
29 Lean systems 1
Total 40
Hours
References:
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