Operations Management by IIMB (edX)

This course is part of the MicroMasters program offered by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, on edX. This course is open to anyone with an interest in business operations. Operations Management teaches you about the role of OM in a company and how to structure and solve operational problems. The course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to address critical aspects of business operations such as capacity, productivity, quality, and supply chain.

You will gain an understanding of how operations are configured in an organization and the factors that can potentially drive the complexity of managing such operations. We will also cover concepts like capacity estimation, identifying bottlenecks, and de-bottlenecking. Throughout the course, you will participate in discussions about productivity improvement methods, quality assurance system development, and supply chain configuration. The course will provide you with the necessary tools, techniques, and skills to estimate, compute, analyze, and configure key operations management elements.

What you'll 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
• View the course Welcome video from instructor B. Mahadevan.

Highlights

• Learn the standard business operations configurations to apply innovative techniques for improvement
• Analyze operations cycle times and system capacity to configure business supply chain
• Understand the concept of Lean Management and apply the same to your business setup
• Through NVA Analysis, identify bottlenecks and defects in operations system and implement processes to resolve them
• Use chart controls to monitor business processes

Duration: 7 Weeks
Rating: 4.4/5

Enroll here: edx.org/course/operations-management