Course Features

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Duration

7 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Intermediate

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Effort

4 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

Have you ever wondered about the right methods to improve productivity, configure your supply chain or address the demand on hand?

In recent years, businesses have strived to improve productivity and quality, reduce costs and delivery times, and embrace flexibility and innovation. These strategies are part of the Operations Management (OM) activities that service and manufacturing organizations engage in.

Operations Management helps you to understand the role of OM in a firm and to develop abilities to structure and solve operations related problems. The course will empower you with skills to address important aspects of business operations including capacity, productivity, quality, and supply chain.

You will understand how operations in an organization are configured and factors that can potentially drive the complexity of managing such operations. We will also introduce concepts like estimating capacity, identifying bottlenecks, and de-bottlenecking.

Throughout the course, you will join us in discussions on productivity improvement methods, development of quality assurance systems and configuration of supply chains.

The course will equip you with the right tools, techniques and skills to estimate, compute, analyze and configure key elements of operations management.

Course Overview

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International Faculty

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Post Course Interactions

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Basic concepts in statistics such as Mean and Standard Deviation

What You Will Learn

Identify an operations system with some known standard configurations

Make an assessment of the complexity of an operations system

Compute cycle times for operations and estimate capacity of the system

Understand the various components of a supply chain and the need to configure them appropriately

Identify methods for reducing bullwhip effect in supply chains

Understand and relate the concept of Lean Management to one’s own business situation

Initiate process & productivity improvement using NVA Analysis

Use specific tools and techniques to analyze quality problems

Monitor a process using control charts

Course Instructors

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B. Mahadevan

Professor, Operations Management at IIM Bangalore

B. Mahadevan is a Professor of Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he has been teaching since 1992. He received his Ph.D. from IIT Madras. He was a visiting s...
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