Operations Management Foundations: Essential Training
What you'll learn
- Understand how business operate and be able to run efficient operations
- Help you to understand accounting and to read and interpret key financial statements
- Understand LEAN business processes
- Understand forecasting and be able to create a forecast in Excel
- Lead a team through a continuous improvement project
- Be able to do inventory management in Excel
- Increase profitability: reduce waste, use resources efficiently and improve delivery
Requirements
- Desire to improve your business operations
- Some knowledge and understanding of statistics, mathematics and Excel
Description
Hi there, my name is Nikola Sretenovic.
I am an Operations Management Professional in the largest Oil and Gas service company with extensive hand-on experience from Lean Six Sigma and Maintenance and Reliability and Oil and Gas educational background.
Are you interested in how companies operate? Business process management? Starting your own company? Planning a career change?
In this course I will teach you everything you need to know about starting with Operations Management and various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize business processes.
Obi: "The course is an eye opener to what I am already doing but having a better definition makes it more understanding and interesting"
This course is for beginners. Whether you are currently promoted into position from another field and need to get up and running fast, or you are a student planning to take operations management course.
I will show you how to identify the operations systems and use operations management tools and concepts to improve your company's productivity, increase efficiency, remove waste and deliver great products to customers at great price.
The Operations Management Foundations course is covering all aspects of operations management including:
Supply chain management
Business processes
Accounting basics
Balance sheet
Income statement
Cash flow statement
Learn how to interpret income statement
Forecasting and how to do it in Excel (downloadable file included)
How to handle inventory
How to balance inventory
Understand true cost of inventory
How to forecast demand
How to manage bottlenecks
Lean management and essential Lean Tools
DMAIC
Kaizen
5S
How to deal with waste
How to overcome problems
For this Foundations course you will need to set aside about two hours for video lessons, examples and quizzes.
Petar: "Highly recommended course. Easy to understand, informative and very well organized. The course is full of practical examples and valuable materials for anyone who wants to enhance their skills. Really enjoyed it. Thank you, Nikola!"
If you have never worked in Operations Management, follow me and by the end of the course you will have understanding of the processes and tools to help you improve operations in your company.
Who this course is for:
- Beginners and New Managers
- People who want to make a greater impact at work, improve things and get noticed
- Maintenance and Reliability Engineers
- Managers, Consultants, Supervisors, Engineers, Planners & Analysts
- Lean Practitioners
- People that want to become an authority in their workplace on business operations management
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Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 160 Reviews
- 5,005 Students
- 1 Course
Seasoned Operations Management Professional with a Petroleum Engineering background and 12+ years of experience in Oil & Gas, NGO and IT environments.
Recognized for demonstrating a natural aptitude for creating and optimizing effective work processes, with verifiable history of contributing directly to project success throughout career consistently exceeded budgetary and performance goals, achieving maximum operational output with minimal resource expenditure.
Professional focal points include strategic planning and execution, service and logistics coordination, resource allocation, quality assurance, cross-functional team leadership, complex problem-solving, client relationship management, and project management.