SYLLABUS
Economics and Management
Department
Undergraduate
Program
MGT 440 – Production Operations Management – 3KU credits (6 ECTS credits)
Subject
Spring, 2015
Term
Antony Jose - tony73@gmail.com
Instructor
122 Bashir Safaroglu str. (Downtown campus) THU 18:30-21:00 room 13
Classroom/hours
MGT
310
Management
and
Organization
Prerequisites
English
Language
Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
Textbook: Jay Heizer, Barry Render [1]
Text books and
course materials
Principles of Operations Management, 8th edition, 2011
ISBN-10 : 0136114466 ISBN-13 : 9780136114468
Identification
Supplementary materials: Book handouts cases
This course is carrying out by using Blended learning methods that combine traditional face-to-face classes with
online learning. The course management platform Moodle is used to provide a wide range of resources to support
learning. And all course related materials including, but not limited to, syllabus, supplementary readings, course
announcements, cases and assignments are available only at the course website http://www.khazar.org/moodle.
Grades will also be posted on Moodle. The students are expected to check it in a regular basis and communicate
with the lecturer only via Moodle.
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Teaching methods Case analysis
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Group discussion
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Experiential exercise
x
Lecture
Course paper
Others
Evaluation Criteria Methods
Date/deadlines
Percentage (%)
25
Midterm Exam
10
Class Participation
10
Activity
20
Home-assignment
35
Final Exam
100
Total
To understand potential issues managers must foresee and address when designing and managing
Course objectives
operating systems that are aimed at maximizing effectiveness and efficiency while satisfying customers
needs.
Course website
Course outline
Course objective is to provide students with concepts, techniques and tools to design, analyze and
improve operational capabilities of an organization. In this course, student will learn the fundamentals of
operations management as they apply to both production and service-based operations. Successful
completion of this course will empower the student to implement the concepts he or she have learned in
their place of business. Even if the student does not plan to work in operations, every department of
every company has processes that must be completed; someone savvy with operations management will
be able to improve just about any process.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the role of operations and its relationship with the other functional areas of a business
organization;
- Analyze operation processes from a variety of perspectives such as productivity, workflow, and quality;
-- Apply the “Transformation Model” as a construct for understanding the relationship between the inputs,
processes, and outputs of an organization; Explain techniques and methodologies for managing an
organization’s productive resources;
- Apply basic design principles to determine appropriate facility location and layout;
- Explain quality management and apply quality management principles to continuous improvement in
operations management;
- Discuss the goal of Supply Chain Management and its application in a variety of organizational
settings; - Identify the critical factors involved in inventory control systems; and
- Identify the operational processes in the student’s own organization.
Week
1
2
Date
(tentative)
January 29, 2015
Topics
Textbook/Assignments
Introduction and Production Operation Management
February 05, 2015 The global Environment and Operations strategy / Managing
Projects
Chapters 2 & 3
3
February 12, 2015 Forecasting Demand /Product design
Chapters 4 & 5
4
February 19, 2015 Quality Management and International Standards/ Statistical
Process Control
Chapter 6
5
February 26, 2015 Process Design/Capacity Planning
Chapter 7
6
March 05, 2015
Location Strategies
Chapter 8
7
March 12, 2015
Layout Strategies ;
8
March 19, 2015
Midterm
9
March 26, 2015
Novruz Holidays
10
April 02, 2015
Supply chain Management / Outsourcing as a Supply chain
strategy
11
April 09, 2015
12
April 16, 2015
Aggregate Scheduling, Material Requirements Planning
Chapter 13
13
April 23, 2015
ERP
Chapter 14
14
April 30, 2015
Short Term Scheduling
Chapter 15
15
May 07, 2015
JIT, Lean operations and the Toyota Production System;
Maintenance and Reliability
16
TBD
Final
Job Design and Work Measurement
Inventory Management
Chapter 1
Chapters 9 &10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapters 16 & 17