
Explore capacity management and capacity planning as they align an organization's resource pool with demand, using aggregate totals and budgeted output to address demand variations.
Analyze peak and trough patterns to optimize capacity utilization and profitability. Learn how price adjustments and production smoothing reduce costs and protect product quality.
Explore the Gantt chart as a visual schedule, covering flow chart and progress chart variants, forward scheduling that starts now, backward scheduling that targets the due date, and slack.
Schedule service operations by aligning demand, capacity, and workforce; manage variability and limited inventories; apply the theory of constraints to identify bottlenecks and buffers in work in progress.
Cadbury integrates manufacturing, marketing, and distribution across 200 countries using batch production, strong brands, and smart IT, supported by R&D and regional growth through acquisitions and packaging innovations.
COURSE OVERVIEW:
This course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of things which are critical for the operations of any business. Operations management is concerned with effectively and efficiently designing, managing and optimizing processes, which are prevalent in both service and production organisations in various sectors such as banking, health care, education, retail, food and beverages, mining and manufacturing.
Follow along as we provide you with the skills to effectively evaluate, manage, and design the management knowledge and functions to contribute to a firm’s future business management direction through applying modern resource and workout layout thought for managers.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Upon the completion of this course, users will be able to:
Gain a high-level understanding of the operations fundamental which includes efficiency vs. effectiveness, operational strategies, and system view of operations.
Analyse and evaluate theoretical and practical knowledge of the operations of process design and capacity management to develop solutions.
Analyse and evaluate the principles of workflow organisation to design a short-term operational plan to meet demand.
Critically analyse information from a wide range of sources to create sustainable solutions innovatively to improve current operational practices.
Critically evaluate and synthesize information from a wide range of sources to determine research skills, and demonstrate the capacity to document the outcomes in operations management with sound analysis and recommendations.