Production and Operation Management

By Prof. Rajat Agrawal | IIT Roorkee

Learners enrolled: 1996

Production and operations Management will introduce students to the many operations topics and issues faced by leading organizations, both in service and in manufacturing. The goal of this course is to help students gain an understanding of what operations management involves, how it relates to other functional areas in an organization, the types of problems that are faced by operations managers, and common decision-making approaches.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : 1. Management

2. Science

PREREQUISITES : Nil

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : BHEL, THDC, Hero Motocorp, UJVNL, Maruti, etc.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	27 Jan 2020
End Date :	17 Apr 2020
Enrollment Ends :	24 Feb 2020
Exam Date :	25 Apr 2020 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1 : L1 - Introduction to Operations Management;
L2 - Operations Strategy in a global economy ;
L3 - Opera n tions Management and Productivity,
L4 - Types and Characteristics of Manufacturing and Service Systems
L5 - Product Desig

Week 2 : L1 - Introduction to Forecasting
L2 - Introduction to Time-series forecasts
L3 - Extrapolative methods I
L4 - Extrapolative methods I I
L5- Forecasting Error

Week 3 : L1 - Causal Methods of forecasting
L2 - Qualitative Methods of Forecasting
L3 - Introduction to Inventory Management
L4 - Various costs involved in inventory management
L5 - EOQ Models of Inventory Management

Week 4 : L1 - Various variations of EOQ
L2 - Inventory Models with Uncertain Demand -I
L3 - Inventory Models with Uncertain Demand -II
L4 - Miscellaneous Systems and Issues
L5 - Inventory Control and Supply Chain Management

Week 5 : L1 - Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning
L2 - Aggregate planning Techniques
L3 - Material requirement Planning
L4 - Improvements in the MRP system
L5 - Lot Sizing in MRP Systems

Week 6 : L1 - Nature of Quality
L2 - Evolution of Quality Management
L3 - Modern Quality Management
L4 - Total Quality Management
L5 - Statistical Concepts in Quality Control

Week 7 : L1 - Acceptance Sampling
L2 - 7 QC Tools
L3 - Introduction to Six Sigma
L4 - Quality Function Deployment
L5 - Quality issues in Services

Week 8 : L1- Facility Capacity
L2- Facility Location
L3- Facility Layout I
L4- Line Balancing
L5- Cellular Layout

Week 9 : L1 - Service Facility Layout
L2 - JIT Manufacturing
L3 - Lean Manufacturing
L4 - Kanban Production System
L5 - Case Discussions on JIT and Lean Philosophy

Week 10 : L1 - Maintenance Management
L2 - Total Productive Maintenance
L3 - Introduction to Project Management
L4 - PERT and CPM
L5 - Project Risk Management

Week 11 : L1 - Process Analysis
L2 - Job Design and work Measurement
L3 - Manufacturing Process selection and Design
L4 - Service Process Selection and Design
L5 - Business process Reengineering

Week 12 : L1 - Supply Chain Strategy
L2 - Measuring Supply Chain performance
L3 - Case discussion of Supply Chain Management
L4 - Contemporary Issues in Operations management
L5 - Framework for Operations Strategy Formulation

Books and references

1. Operations Management by William J. Stevenson

2. Modern Production/ Operations Management by E S Buffa and Rakesh K Sarin

3. Operations Management For Competitive Advantage by Richard B Chase, F Robert Jacobs

4. Operations Management by Norman Gaither and Greg Frazier

Instructor bio

Prof. Rajat Agrawal

IIT Roorkee

Prof . Rajat Agrawal is a member of faculty (Associate Professor) at Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee. He is also associate faculty member at Center of Excellence for Disaster Mitigation and Management and Center of Excellence for Transportation Management, IIT Roorkee. He administers various initiatives of IIT Roorkee in the field of IPR, incubation and entrepreneurship in different capacities. He initiated incubation centre at IIT Roorkee. He is cocordinator of Design innovation centre at IIT Roorkee. He is also IPR Chair Coordinator at IIT Roorkee. Dr. Rajat is a visiting fellow to Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. His area of interest is Production and Operations Management including Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Strategy and World Class Manufacturing. He has guided thirteen Ph D thesis in these areas and published papers in journals of Emerald, Sage, Springer, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, and Inderscience. Currently, ten students are working under him for Ph D thesis. He has more than 90 research papers in refereed journals and more than 25 research papers in refereed conference proceedings. He has developed more than 20 case studies on various aspects of supply chain management, organisational development, natural resource management, social entrepreneurship, and value co-creation. He has developed more than 15 programmes for All India Radio on various subjects of rural development and technical, management education. He has completed 10 research and consultancy projects. He was also involved in some of the international projects funded by Danish Innovation Council and European Union. He has more than 200 hours of corporate training experience with organisations like BHEL, THDC India Ltd., Power Finance Corporation Ltd., Syndicate Bank, Everest Industries, and Rockman Industries etc.

Course certificate

• The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
• The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
• Date and Time of Exams: 25th April 2020, Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
• Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
• The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
• Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE:
• Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
• Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
• Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75.
• If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
• Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Roorkee. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
• Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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