Overview

Looking for productivity gains? Then you need to strengthen your organization’s operations. Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management is an up-to-date course examining all aspects of current practice for improving an organization’s operations, enabling it to produce solutions faster, better, cheaper.

Course Credit: Students who successfully completed semester courses can apply credit gained toward UMT's Master of Science in Management, MBA, Master of Science in Computer Science, or Master of Science in Information Technology programs.

Instruction

Method: Readings, case study analyses, homework, final examination

Materials: On-line workbook, case studies; textbook, Operations Management, Sixth Edition with CD-ROM, Prentice-Hall, 2000

[Note: Students must purchase all textbooks for semester-length PDU courses.]

Objectives

To provide participants with up-to-date insights into operations management as it is practiced in high-performing organizations today. Special attention is given to examining concepts, tools, and techniques that help organizations to carry out their behind-the-scenes business efforts.

PMBOK Knowledge Areas

• Project Human Resource Management
• Project Integration Management
• Project Time Management
• Project Scope Management
• Project Quality Management
• Project Communications Management
• Project Cost Management
• Project Risk Management
• Project Procurement Management

What You Will Learn

• The role of operations management in organizations
• Tools and techniques to manage production processes, inventories, and quality
• Supply chain management principles
• Managing human factors in operations
• The role of global sourcing and production to enhance operations

Topics Covered

• What is operations management?
• The link between operations and organizational productivity
• Managing global operations
• Forecasting techniques
• The role of design in operations: design of processes and design of products
• Quality issues in operations: TQM, ISO 9000, Baldridge Award
• Quality function deployment (QFD)
• Value engineering and value analysis
• Production processes
• The role of robotics
• Facility layout
• Supply chain management
• Human factors
• Inventory management (e.g., JIT, EOQ, POQ)
• Materials requirements planning (MRP)
• Maintenance and reliability

Take a Course

The 45-PDU semester courses in PDU Suite do not require any formal application to the university. Each course costs $1,170. You may pay for a course at any time on our Online Payment page.

All 45-PDU semester courses are offered based on sufficient enrollment. UMT decides whether to offer a particular course two weeks prior to the beginning of a semester or when there is sufficient enrollment, whichever comes first.

Please fill out the course registration form below if you are interested in taking this course. This will help us to estimate the enrollment as early as possible and let everyone know whether the course will be offered next semester.