Academic Catalog

MGT 713 Operations Management

This is a graduate level course in Operations Management. Operations management is the management of systems or processes that create goods and/or provide services. The specific critical roles of an operations manager include (but are not limited to): forecasting, product and service design, capacity planning, facility layout, location planning, inventory management, scheduling, and quality management. This involves exploring a variety of key functions supporting the operations manager to include task and work flow analysis, manpower management, quality control procedures within processes selected, supply chain management, and project management. This course will focus on achieving the learning objectives through selected textbook readings, discussion forums, case analysis, selected chapter problems, and short essay papers. By successfully completing this course, students will further develop their operational management skills needed to meet the challenges facing today’s complex business organizations.

Credits

3

Offered

Online, On Campus