Operations Management

The Course DCMBA-25: Operations Management has been divided into five blocks and
consisting of 15 Units.
Block-1: Introduction to Operations Management has been divided into three Units. Unit
1 describes history and Definition, Production vs. Operations, Manufacturing vs. Service
Operations, Unit-2 explains functions of production systems and Unit-3 deals with Production
Operations Management vs. Operations Strategy.
Block-2: Location, Layout and Forecasting has been divided into three Units. Unit-4 deals
with Plant Location, Factors Influencing Location, Plant Layout, Unit-5 explains about the
Types of Layout, Forecasting Technique: Qualitative and Quantitative and Unit-6 describes
about the Delphi Method, Regression Analysis and Forecasting Error.
Block-3: Planning has been divided in to three Units. Unit-7 describes about Capacity
Planning, Aggregate Production Planning (APP), Unit-8 explains about the Disaggregation:
Master Production Scheduling (MPS), Material Requirement Planning (MRP) and Unit-9 deals
with the Production Planning and Control (PPC).
Block-4: Quality has been divided into three Units. Unit-10 describes the Evolution of Quality,
Quality Definition and Contributions by W. Edwards Deming, Unit-11 explains the Dimensions
of Quality, Process Quality vs Product Quality and Unit-12 deals with the Seven Basic Quality
Tools – Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle.
Block-5: Inventory Management has been divided into three Units. Unit-13 describes about
the Inventory Management, Types of Inventory Models, Independent Demand vs Dependent
Demand, Unit-14 explains about the Basic Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Model Analysis:
ABC and VED and Unit-15 deals with Push vs Pull system – Just-In-Time (JIT) vs Material
Requirement Planning (MRP).