Introduction: Scope of Operations Management, operations manager and the management process,
Operations Strategy, Competitiveness and Productivity.
Demand Forecasting: components of forecasting demand, Approaches to forecasting- Qualitative methods,
Time series methods, Regression methods, Accuracy and control of forecasts, Selection of forecasting
technique.
Products and Services, Process, Types of Production Systems: Mass, Batch, Job shop production, Product
and process matrix, Process planning and Process analysis.
Capacity Planning: Defining and measuring capacity, steps in capacity planning process, determining capacity
requirements, Capacity alternatives, Evaluation of alternatives-Cost- Volume analysis etc.
Production Planning: Production planning objective and functions, Bill of material, Capacity and man power requirement planning, Planning levels, long range, Intermediate range and Short range planning, aggregate planning, Objective, Strategies, graphical and mathematical techniques of aggregate planning, master production scheduling, MRP and MRPII Systems
Production Control: Capacity control and priority control, production control functions, Routing, scheduling,
dispatching, expediting and follow up, Techniques of production control in job shop production, batch production
and mass production systems.
Material Management: Objectives, scope and functions of material management, planning, procurement, storing, ending and inventory control, Purpose of inventory, inventory cost, inventory control systems, Selective inventory control systems, Determination of EOQ, Lead time and reorder point. Methods of physical stock control
List of Recommended Books:
1. Operations Management: A System Model Building Approach, Vollman T.E., Addison Wesley Publication.
2. Operation Management: The Management of Productive System, Buffa E.S., John Willey and Sons.
3. Forecasting Methods and Applications, Markridakis and Wheeleright, Wiley India.
4. Product Planning and Inventory Control, Narsimha and Narsimha, Prentice Hall India.
5. Production and Operations Management, S.N. Charry, Tata McGraw Hill.
6. Operations Management, Russel Taylor, Pearson Education.
7. Operations Management, Stevenson, Tata McGraw Hill.
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8. Operations Management, Frazier Gaither, Thomson.