Operations Management Taster
Dr. Nico Savio
Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Manchester Business School
University of Manchester
MBS West 3.65
Nicolas.Savio@mbs.ac.uk
Agenda
• What do we mean by operations?
• What is operations management?
• A career in operations and supply chain management
• Operations and supply chain management ‘stream’ at MBS
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What do we mean by operations?
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What do we mean by operations?
• Operations is about how organisations make/offer a product/service that they
will sell to a customer
• Let’s think about how these are made
• What have they got in common? How are they different? What are the inputs?
What are the outputs?
• How about these?
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Operations is a ….. transformation
process
Tangible
(products) and
intangible
(services)
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The operations function is defined as a collection of processes, all inter-linked
Thinking about the big picture, we can analyse operations at three levels: the
process, the operation the supply network  hierarchy of OM
BMAN20031 & 20771
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What is operations management?
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What is operations management?
• The operations function of an organisation is responsible for the
transformation of the input into the output
• Operations management is about the planning and coordination of all
activities related to this transformation process within the organisation
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Strategy
Design
Inventory management
Capacity planning
Supply chain management
Quality management
Improvement
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A career in operations and supply
chain management?
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A career in operations and supply
chain management
• All large organisations have graduate schemes in operations and supply chain
management
– It’s a core function!
• If you like analysing operations business problems and implementing their
solutions
• Mixture of analytical (quantitative) and qualitative skills
• Some of the big ones are
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Operations and Supply Chain
Management ‘stream’ at MBS
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Operations and supply chain
management ‘stream’ at MBS
• Stream
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BMAN20031 – Operations Management
BMAN31451 – Foundations of Supply Chain Management
BMAN30651 – Strategic Supply Chain Management
Supply chain related dissertation
• Quantitative methods is a base, but a lot of the assessment is qualitatively
based
• You can do Decision Modelling for Resource Management, Operational
Research and Statistics in parallel
• Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) accreditation
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Thank you
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