Stanley College of Engineering and Technology for Women, Hyderabad
Department of Business Management
Course Plan
Class: MBA
Semester: 2ndSemester
2.6 Operations Management
Name of the Instructor G Nalini MBA (Human resources), Assistant Professor, Department of
Business Management
Instruction period: 5 periods per week
Course Purpose: This course is essential for all future employees in operational level, strategic level.
This course helps the students ( future employees) to understand the management of all the operations
in production process .
Course Structure: The complete course comprises of five units.
Unit-1 begins with an introduction to Operations Management and Production planning and control,
process technologies. Unit-2 presents a discussion on operations scheduling, product sequencing, plant
layout and location and maintenance management. Unit-3 deals with Quality control. Unit 4 discusses
about material management and unit 5 deals with stores management.
Suggested Reading:
1. Mahadevan. B, Operations Management, 2010, Pearson Education.
2. Stevenson J. William, Operations Management, 2009, 9th Ed. Tata McGraw-Hill.
3. James R Evans, David A. Collier, Operations Management, 2007, Cengage Learning.
4. Aswathappa K. and Sridhara Bhat, Production and Operations Management, 2010, HPH.
5. Danny Samson and Prakash J.Singh, Operations Management-An integrated approach, 2009,1st
Ed. Cambridge press.
6. Ray Wild, Operations Management, 2003, Thomson Learning.
7. Kanishka Bedi, Production and Operations Management, 2007, 2nd Ed. Oxford University Press.
8. Everett. Adam, Jr. and Ronald J. Elbert, Production and Operations Management Concepts, Models
and Behaviour, 2003, Prentice Hall of India, 5th Ed.
9. Donald Waters, Operations Management, 2010, Kogan page India.
10. Upendra Kachru, Production and Operations Management, 2010, Excel Books
Course Schedule
Class
No.
1
Week
No.
Topics to be covered
UNIT - I
Introduction to operations management
Role of Operations Management in total
management
SystemInterface between the operation systems and
systems of other functional areas,
Process
planning and process design,
Production Planning and Control
6
7
Production Planning and Control
process technologies
process technologies
Production Cycle Inter Relationship between
product life cycle and process life cycle
Reference(s)
Aswathappa K. and Sridhara Bhat,
Production
and
Operations
Management, 2010, HPH
10
Revision of unit 1
11
16
Aggregate
planning,
MPS,
scheduling, Product sequencing
Job sequencing problems with
machines
Job sequencing problems with
machines
Job sequencing problems with
machines
Job sequencing problems with n
conditions not satisfied
Plant layout and plant location
17
Maintenance Management
18
Revision of problems
12
13
14
15
19
Operations
n jobs 2
n jobs 3
n job m
jobs when
Revision of problems
20
Unit 3 Quality Assurance, Quality circles
21
Standards and specifications
21
SQC Control charts
22
Mean chart
23
Range chart
24 6
np chart
25
P chart
26
C and u chart
27
Acceptance sampling plans, OC curve
28
30
Work study method study and Work
measurement
Methods and Computation of allowance and
allowed time.
Revision of unit 3
31
Revision of problems
32 8
Unit 4 Need and importance of Materials
management
Materials Requirement Planning
29
33
34
Materials
Budgeting- Techniques for prioritization of
Stevenson J. William, Operations
Management, 2009, 9th Ed. Tata
McGraw-Hill.
materials
Sources of Supply of Materials
35
36 9
selection,
evaluation and Performance of suppliers
37
38
39
make or buy decisions and its implications
under various
circumstances Vendor rating determinants of vendor rating
40 10
concept of waste management
41
revision
42
Unit 5
43
46
Objectives of Stores Management
Requirements for efficient. Management of
Stores
safety
stock Inventory Control - Different Systems of
Inventory Control
Types of Inventory Costs Systems of inventory control ABC anaysis
Problems on ABC analysis
47
VED and FNSD analyses
48
49
Value Analysis Importance in cost reduction
concepts and procedures.
EOQ
50
EOQ problems with constant demand
51
EOQ problems with one price break up
52
EOQ problems with two price break up
53
Revision
54
Revision
11
44
45
2.6: Operations Management
Unit - I: Introduction to Operations Management:
Introduction to Operations Management - Role of Operations Management in total management
System- Interface between the operation systems and systems of other functional areas, Process
planning and process design, Production Planning and Control: Basic functions of Production Planning
and Control, Production Cycle - characteristics of process technologies. Project, Job Shop, Assembly,
batch and Continuous - Inter Relationship between product life cycle and process life cycle.
Unit II: Scheduling and control of production operations:
Aggregate planning, MPS, Operations scheduling, Product sequencing: Sequencing of products in
multi- product multi-stage situations - Plant Capacity and Line Balancing. Plant layout different types
of layouts. Location and the factors influencing location. Maintenance Management: Objectives
Failure Concept, Reliability, Preventive and Breakdown maintenance, Replacement policies
Unit - III: Quality control:
Standards and specifications, Quality Assurance and Quality Circles Statistical Quality Control
Control Charts for Variables- Average, Range and S.D., Control charts for Attributes- fraction defective
and number of defects, Acceptance Sampling Plans, OC Curve Work Study, various techniques in the
Methods Study for identifying the most appropriate method. Work measurement- its uses and different
methods, computation of allowance and allowed time.
Unit - IV: Materials Management:
Need and importance of Materials management-Materials Requirement Planning-Materials
Budgeting- Techniques for prioritization of materials-Sources of Supply of Materials -selection,
evaluation and Performance of suppliers-make or buy decisions and its implications under various
circumstances Vendor rating - determinants of vendor rating, concept of waste management
Unit - V: Stores Management:
Objectives of Stores Management Requirements for efficient. Management of Stores safety stock
Inventory Control - Different Systems of Inventory Control, Types of Inventory. Costs -Systems of
inventory control ABC, VED and FNSD analyses. Value Analysis Importance in cost reduction
concepts and procedures.
Suggested Books:
1. Mahadevan. B, Operations Management, 2010, Pearson Education.
2. Stevenson J. William, Operations Management, 2009, 9th Ed. Tata McGraw-Hill.
3. James R Evans, David A. Collier, Operations Management, 2007, Cengage Learning.
4. Aswathappa K. and Sridhara Bhat, Production and Operations Management, 2010, HPH.
5. Danny Samson and Prakash J.Singh, Operations Management-An integrated approach, 2009,
1st Ed. Cambridge press.
6. Ray Wild, Operations Management, 2003, Thomson Learning.
7. Kanishka Bedi, Production and Operations Management, 2007, 2nd Ed. Oxford University
Press.
8. Everett. Adam, Jr. and Ronald J. Elbert, Production and Operations Management Concepts,
Models and Behaviour, 2003, Prentice Hall of India, 5th Ed.
9. Donald Waters, Operations Management, 2010, Kogan page India.
10. Upendra Kachru, Production and Operations Management, 2010, Excel Books
