Module Title:
Program :
Term:
Credits:
Student Learning:
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
MBA
II
3
Learning
Contact
Guided Study
Assessment
Total
Hours
40
25
10
75
OBJECTIVE OF THE PAPER:
The objective of this paper is to help the students to become effective managers in the
competitive global environment. After studying it the students placed in various
organizations whether manufacturing or service are supposed to take care of the very
basic unit of the work that is process. They need to accept the challenge of both
managing and understanding the interrelatedness of the enterprise wide activities.
Summing up the aim of this course is to prepare the truly global operation manager
equipped with all type of weapons to take care of the limited resources of an enterprise
and transform them to the revenue and profit.
PRE-REQUISITE:
The basic knowledge of elementary math and statistics at least up to class XII level
Teaching/Learning Approach
The students will learn through a combination of face- to- face contact and
guided study. Personal contact sessions will include Presentations, Case Study
analysis and Quizzes.
Guided study will include text readings and the use of a wide range internet
based resources.
Indicative Content
Topics
UNIT 1
Cover
Lectures
1.Introduction Meaning and function of Production
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Management, Production system Production Organization
Chart, Decision Making in Production Operation,
Production Departments with various other departments and
their importance.
2. Strategies
Responsibility of Production Manger. Interdependencies of
UNIT 2
UNIT3
UNIT4
UNIT 5
Operation strategies and decision making produce to stock
and produce to order strategies, concept of using mixed
strategies, advantages of having mixed strategies.
3. Long term planning/strategy
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Facility location and facility layout. Factors affecting the
location of facility,
different types of layouts, product focused, process
Focused, cellular and mixed layouts. Introduction to the
methods for determining the location and layout of a facility.
4. Intermediate term planning/ strategy
Capacities Planning, aggregate planning, hire and fire
strategy etc.
Identification and segregation of the operations based on the
strategy selected.
5. Shop floor control Resource planning, sequencing and
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scheduling, concept of JIT, manufacturing and assembly line
balancing, preparation of Gantt Chart.
6. Project Management
CPM, PERT forward pass and backward pass computations,
resource leveling, resource allocation, and crashing of the
project.
7. Inventory Management
Inventory definition, types and models, managing the
inventory, classification of inventories, MPS, MRP, ERP.
8. Work Study & Productivity
Productivity improving techniques, Cost reduction approach,
Work and Method study, Work Order, Production Control
and its importance
9. Quality Concepts
Production Quality Concepts and Internal Customer
Approach, Introduction to the tools of quality management.
10. Safety Management
Evolution of safety concepts, Electrical & Chemical hazards,
ionizing and non ionizing Radiation, Personal protection,
Material handling and shop floor design concepts,
Environmental safety, fire prevention, introduction to
OHSAS standards.
Books for Reference:
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1. Production and Operations Management K. Aswathappa, Himalaya Publishing
House
2. Modern Production/Operation Management Buffa
3. Production/Operation Management Concepts E. Adam& J. Albert Prentice Hall
4. Theory & Practice of Production Operation Management S.N.Chary
5. Safety Management Grimaldi Simonds
6. Operations Management Russell & Taylor
7. Operations Management Ritzman & Krajewski
8. Operations Management Hanna & Newman
9. Production/Operation Management Manufacturing & Services Chase, Aquilano &
Jacobs
10. Production & Operations Management , Norman Gaither, the Dryden Press
11. Operations Management, John O’ McClain & C. Joseph Thomas, PHI, 1987
12. Production and Operations Management, Martin K Starr, Cengage Learning India
Edition.
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