Operations Management

Catalog description

This course covers basic concepts, practices, and current themes of Operations Management in both production and service industries. Students learn how to make operations decisions such as those relating to capacity planning, inventory management, quality control, facility layout, and product design. Analytical and qualitative tools, as well as key metrics, are applied to real life and realistic problems. The class also emphasizes the interrelatedness and complexity of real -life operations and their place i n strategic, global, and ethical contexts.