WMBA 6100. Operations and Supply Chain Management. 3 Hours.

A course designed for both new and high level managers addressing operations strategy, process selection, capacity planning, facility location and layout planning, job design, and total quality management. Students will apply concepts to operational issues and challenges in their daily function and identify strategic decisions in operations management; select the appropriate process for a given production system; employ available techniques in firm’s long-range capacity planning and layout design; and apply all related OM [what is OM?] approaches in management decision making processes.