Managing Global Production/Operation

Catalog description

The objective of this course is to make the students to think about how supply chain management impacts all the areas and processes of the firm and its supply chain trading partners, to show how managers can improves their firm's competitive position by employing effective practices. This course of production and operations management involves all the processes, which combines and transforms various resources used in these subsystems of the organization into value added product/services in a controlled manner as per the policies of the organization. Major concepts like purchasing management, managing supplier relationships, ethical and sustainable sourcing etc., are explained in this course. Modern technologies like cloud computing, social media and advanced CRM are used as integrating the supply chain management concepts. This course is concerned with the transformation of that part of the organization that has a range of inputs into the required (products/services) having the requisite quality level.