MBA Syllabus

MBA 614: OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

• Introduction: Nature and Scope of operations management.  
• Planning & Controlling the Operations.
• Aggregate planning, Linear programming applications in aggregate planning.
• Capacity Planning Management and Operations Scheduling, Dealing with capacity change.   
• Reliability Engineering, Failure, Measures of reliability, the Bath-tub curve, System reliability.   
• Learning curves.   
• Purchasing objectives and Policies, Organizing purchasing.    
• Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP II), Optimized Production Technology (OPT).   
• Just-in-Time Manufacturing, (JIT) philosophy, Implementing Just-in -Time systems.    
• Workstudy fundamentals, Productivity concepts, Measurement of productivity.   
• Principles of ergonomics, Human factors engineering.   

Books Recommended :

• Theory and Problems in Production and Operations Management by S.N.Chary.   
• Production and Operations Management by Alan Muhlemann, John Oakland & Keith Lockyer.
• Production and Operations Management - Concepts, Models & Behaviour by Everette E Adam, Jr. & Ronald J.Ebert.
• Production/Operations Management by Roger W Schmenner.

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