XLRI, one of the premium business schools, has opened registrations for:
One Month Certificate Program in Fundamentals of Operations Management.
Program : Fundamentals of Operations Management
Program : Fundamentals of Operations Management
Duration : 5 days a week (Sunday to Thursday)
Timings : 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm
Dates : January 5 to February 9, 2008
Certification : Course completion certificate from XLRI, India
Cost : Dirhams Six Thousand Five Hundred Only (AED.6500/-)
Location : Al Abbas Institute of Technology, Bank Street, Dubai
Limited seats, admission is on first cum first serve basis.
Contact
Theresa Davidson
Academic Co-ordinator
Al Abbas Institute of Technology
Tel : +971 4 3552440/ 3520888
Fax :+971 4 3594141
Email: xlri@ait.ae
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Introduction to Production and Operations Management
- Historical Background
- Classification of Production Shops
- Classification of supply Chains Production Planning and Control
- Evolution of Planning Systems
- Process Flow Diagram
- Process Analysis and Improvement
- Inventory Management
- MRP
- JIT
- Simulation for Operations Planning
- Overview of Demand & Business Analysis
- Selecting a forecasting Technique
- Time Series Analysis
- Moving Averages, Classical Decomposition Methods, Exponential Smoothing, Holt’s and Winter’s Models, ARMA, ARIMA, SARIMA
- Regression and Econometric Models
- Few Advanced Techniques
- Tracking Signals and Effectiveness of Forecasting
- Use of Software Packages for Forecasting
- Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Elements of logistics and different approaches
- Different views of Supply Chain Management
- Strategic advantages of a Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Drivers and Obstacles
- Responding to Predictable Variability in a Supply Chain
- Role of Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain and Strategies
- Warehousing Decisions and Supply Chain Network Design
- Nature and importance of warehousing
- Warehousing location decisions and operations
- Space determination and Layout decisions in warehousing
- WMS and Performance
- Planning and Managing Inventory Flows in a Supply Chain
- Role of Cycle Inventory and Economies of Scale to exploit Fixed costs
- Economies of Scale to exploit Quantity Discounts and Estimation of Inventory costs
- Safety Inventory, its levels and Risk Pooling
- Impact of aggregation
- Bullwhip Effect and Order Variability
- Multi-echelons in a Supply chain Network
- Replenishment Policies under various Pull and Push Systems
- Optimal Levels of Product availability
- Transportation, Network Design and Information Technology
- Role of Transportation in a Supply chain
- Modes of Transportation and their Performance characteristics
- Design options for as Transportation Network and Trade-Offs in transportation,
- Models in Transportation Decisions
- Outsourcing Issues and Rate contracting
- 3PL and 4PL alternatives
- Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
- Organisation of The Supply Chain
- Role of IT in Supply Chain Management
Project Management
- Project Management Techniques (PERT/CPM)
- Use of Project Management Software
- Resources and Leveling
- Earned Value Management
- Stakeholder Management
Theory of Constraints
- Basics
- Drum Buffer Rope
- Thinking Tools
- Critical Chain Project Management
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Program Facilitators - Rajiv Misra B.E.
(Mech., Roorkee), M.S. (Industrial – State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, USA)
Production & Operations Management - A. S. Vijayaraghavan
M. Stat. (ISI), PGD in SQC & OR (ISI), Fellow (IIM Bangalore)
Information Systems, Operations Management
