MGO 620LEC - Operations Management

This course deals with the design, planning, control, and improvement of manufacturing and service operations, within supply chain contexts. Students will learn how operations planning and control relate to business and functional strategies; develop an understanding of various manufacturing and service operations contexts; learn about planning and control mechanisms; identify problem situations; and analyze, formulate strategies, and develop viable alternatives to augment competitive advantage for the firm and its supply chain partners. A wide range of problem-solving techniques and methods applied in the pursuit of improved decision-making and efficiency will be demonstrated in this course, such as data simulation, optimization, queueing theory and other stochastic-process models, expert systems, and decision analysis.

Credits: 2

Requisites: Pre-Requisite: MGA 603 And MGF 611.