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MBA P79 Semester II

MBA203

Production and Operations Management

Syllabus

Unit 1 Nature and scope of Operations: Functions of Operations Management, Systems perspective,
Challenges in Operations Management, Competitiveness

Unit 2 Types of Manufacturing and service Systems: Product Strategies, Product Life Cycle, Production
system types, distinctive features of service systems, classification of service systems

Unit 3 The Product development Process: Benefits, Process, Concurrent Engineering, Tools for efficient
product development, measuring product development performance

Unit 4 Facilities Planning: Location , factors affecting size of the firm, factors affecting plant location,
economic survey of the site selection , computation of investment and cost of production and
distribution , factors and location rating, break even analysis for facility location planning, simple median
model, centre of gravity method

Unit 5 Facility Layout and Material Handling: Plant layout, material flow system, process layout, product
layout, mixed layout, project layout, cellular layout, process charts, flow diagram, travel chart, REL chart

Unit 6 Forecasting : Forecasting and Time Horizon, classification of forecasting methods, Moving average
method, Weighted moving average method, exponential smoothing method, forecasting errors, tracking
signal, causal methods, qualitative methods

Unity 7 Inventory Management: Continuous Inventory Systems, Periodic Inventory system, Two- bin
system, The ABC classification, EOQ methods, Order quantity with variable demand, order quantity for a
periodic inventory system

Unit 8 Production planning and control : Production planning Hierarchy, Aggregate planning, Level
strategy, Chase strategy, Mixed strategy, Disaggregating the aggregate plan, Rough Cut Capacity
planning, Material Requirement planning

Unit 9 Quality Management: Meaning, cost of quality, contribution of famous quality Guru, TQM, Six
Sigma, SQC, Quality certification

Unit 10 Project Management: Characteristics of Project, Project Life Cycle, Framewok for Project
Management, Work Breakdown Structure, Organization Breakdown Structure, Cost Breakdown
Structure Tools and Techniques for Project Management, Developing a Network Representation of
Project, Analysis of Project Network, Time- Cost- Trade- Offs in Project, Programme Evaluation And
Review Technique (PERT)
Unit 11 Maintenance Management: The Maintenance Function, Equipment Life Cycle, Measures of
Maintenance Performance, Maintenance Strategies, Total Productive Maintenance

Unit 12 Supply Chain Management: Meaning, Components of supply Chain, Process orientation of
supply chain, supply chain strategies, Bullwhip effect, Measures of supply chain performance

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