Fundamentals of Operations Management (One Month)

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

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

Demand Analysis and Forecasting

• 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

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

• 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