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Have you ever considered the best ways to boost productivity, streamline your supply chain, or manage demand effectively? In today’s competitive landscape, businesses aim to enhance productivity and quality, cut costs and delivery times, and adopt flexible, innovative approaches. These goals are at the core of Operations Management (OM), a vital function in both service and manufacturing sectors.
This course in Operations Management will help you understand the crucial role OM plays within a company and develop the skills needed to tackle operational challenges. You'll gain insights into key areas such as capacity, productivity, quality, and supply chain management. We’ll explore how operations are structured within an organization and the factors that contribute to their complexity. You'll also learn about critical concepts like capacity estimation, bottleneck identification, and process optimization.
Throughout the course, you’ll engage in discussions on productivity improvement techniques, quality assurance systems, and supply chain configuration. By the end, you’ll be equipped with the tools, techniques, and skills necessary to analyze, estimate, and optimize key elements of operations management.
What You'll Learn:
- Identify and understand standard configurations of operations systems.
- Evaluate the complexity of an operations system.
- Calculate cycle times and estimate system capacity.
- Grasp the components of a supply chain and the importance of proper configuration.
- Learn methods to reduce the bullwhip effect in supply chains.
- Apply Lean Management principles to your business.
- Initiate productivity improvements through Non-Value-Added (NVA) analysis.
- Use specialized tools to analyze quality issues.
- Monitor processes using control charts.
UNOCUE Masterclass
Operations Management
Know your Instructor
Mahadevan
B. Mahadevan is a professor of Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he has been teaching since 1992. Professor Mahadevan has more than 27 years of wide-ranging experience in teaching, research, consulting, and academic administration at IIM Bangalore and other reputed institutions such as IIT Delhi and XLRI, Jamshedpur. He was a visiting scholar at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1999–2000. He was also a retainer consultant to Deloitte Consulting LLP, USA, in 2001–2002. He was earlier Chief Editor of the IIMB Management Review.
Professor Mahadevan’s research interests include researching the possibility of using ancient Indian wisdom to address contemporary concerns, spirituality in the work place, and management paradigms from Bhagavad Gita. In the traditional areas of management, the research interests include design of service systems in customer co-creation of value and order allocation issues in electronic markets.
Professor Mahadevan was the founder Vice-chancellor of Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, a University for applied Sanskrit and Indian Wisdom during 2016 – 2018.
