BUAD 5601 - Operations and Supply Chain Management

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This course introduces students to Operations Management, one of the major functional areas of business. Operations Management is devoted to how an organization efficiently converts resources into products and services. These resources include an organization’s facilities, workforce, equipment, information, and materials. The course will use two perspectives to explore Operations Management. The first is the “process” view - a set of activities and resources that transform inputs into outputs. We will explore how to design, analyze, and control business processes within a firm. The second half of this course will use the supply chain – a network of firms that source, make, and deliver the product or service to the customer – as the overarching model to explore the latest operations-related initiatives.