Production and Operations Management Syllabus

Lecturer : Ritzky Karina M.R. Brahmana SE., MA., MIRM

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Course Objective:

The basic purpose to study operations management especially for management course is giving some
perspectives for students to understand how to create and operate productive systems for the
satisfaction of human needs in products such as goods and or services. At this production and
operations management subjects, students are going to study about operations management such as
operations strategy, process design, forecasting, inventory management, scheduling and quality
management. Those concepts will help students to find out the best alternatives what they should do in
production and operations management in business actual. After completion this subject so the
students should be able to:

- Understand the dynamics of operations strategy and be able to implement it for a company
- Understand about the concept of process design and how to apply it for a company
- Have a good awareness about any obstacles that can be happened in the future and have a
precisely analysis to forecast how to accomplish the goal with forecasting techniques
- Understand and able to give recommendation about facility and design for production and
operational layout.
- Understand and be able to apply about scheduling techniques in project management.

Books:
1. Title : Operations Management 1st Ed.
Author : Roaimah Omar
Publisher :Pearson – Prentice Hall Malaysia , 2005

2. Title : Operations Management 1st Ed.

Author : Kostas N. Dervitsiotis
Publisher : Prentice Hall , 1981

3. Title : Operations Management 4th Ed.

Author : Heizer & Render
Publisher : Prentice Hall, 2005

Assignments and Exams:

For assignment, there will be no presentation yet it will be a pre-quiz every week before the materials
begin. The students should be prepared with the materials that will be given that day and or the
materials that already given last meeting. It will help student to understand every concepts for
production and operations management. Another assignment will be an exercise that will be given every
three weeks that will be given 20 minutes before the class ended. The assignments will be in study
cases. No make-up assignment!

For the exams, the final exam will be followed like the coordinator already set. But for the mid-term
exam, it will be cases that would be taken from the real problems in company. The length of time is 120
minutes and no curving/cheating! Any students who break this rule will get “E” immediately. The same
rule will be applied to the final exam.

The most important thing that should be remembered is there is no replacement exam! And no
plagiarism! If student do any plagiarism, he/she will get “E” immediately.

Attendance:

About the attendance, the student will follow the school’s rule where the student only allow to
skip/permission/ sick for 3 days.

Policy Issues:
o No cell-phone and or similar devices activities during the class otherwise the student’s
point (overall points) will be reduced 5 points for once activity.
o No MP3’s player and or similar devices otherwise the student’s point (overall points) will
be reduced 10 points for once activity.
o No discrimination behaviors in class.
o Any policy issues that are not mentioned at here will be mentioned later on in the class.

Grading:

Attendance 10%
Assignments 20%
Mid-Term Exam 30%
Final Exam 40%
Total 100%

For the grading, it will follow what the school’s policy already mentioned.

Schedule for Production and Operations Management Class

Meeting Subject Length Time Media
1 Introduction of Production and Operations Management 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White board
2 Facility Location 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White board
3 Facility Layout 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White board
4 Product Design 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White board
5 Operations Planning 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White board
6 Mid- Term Exam 120 minutes Question and answer

7 Inventory Management 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen

White Board
8 Project Management 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White Board
9 Work Measurement 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White Board
10 Quality Control 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White Board
11 Maintenance 120 minutes LCD Projector (Presen
White Board
12 Final Exam 120 minutes Question and answer