IMMG 32062

>< Title : Advanced Operations Management
>< Type/Status : Elective Course
>< Teaching and learning objectives:
This course focuses on using operations function in building organizational competitiveness and introduces practical tools for achieving organizational goals.
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to apply various techniques studied in class for enhancing organizational competitiveness
>< Course Content

Operations/Manufacturing strategy and competitiveness, Job design. Work Study, Productivity and performance measurement, Total Quality Management (TQM), International Standards on Quality, Quality awards, Materials planning and control, Production control, Dependent demand inventory models, MRP, MRPII, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), advanced schedulers, Optimized Production Technology, Supply Chain Management, Modeling and Simulation in operations management. Software for Operations Management, issues of computerization.

>< Methodology:
The course will be delivered in a combination of lectures and case analysis.
>< Scheme of Evaluation:
End-of-semester examination and continuous evaluation.
>< Recommended Reading:
1. Chase, Aquilano, and Jacobs, “Operations Management: Manufacturing and Services”, 8th Edition, 1998, McGraw Hill - Irwin.
2. Nigel Slack, Sturat Chambers, Robert Johnston, “Operations management”, 3rd Edition, 2000, Prentice Hall.
3. William J. Stevenson, “Operations Management”, 7th Edition, 2001, McGraw-Hill- Irwin.

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