MBA 5223 - Operations Management

3 Credit Hours
This course develops the conceptual and analytical skills needed to address the issues related to the creation and distribution of goods and services. It emphasizes the role of the operations function as a competitive weapon and examines how operations strategy can be integrated with the corporate strategy and other functional strategies. It discusses the increasingly important role of global competition, technology, and total quality. Other topics include process design, capacity planning, technology choice, planning and inventory control, and just-in-time systems. Technology is emphasized.
Prerequisite: Approved undergraduate Principles of Management or MBA 5013 Business Foundations I: Statistics and Management.