Operations Management deals with logistics, techniques and methods needed to achieve management objectives relative to quality, quantity, schedules and costs.
Students who complete the Management: Operations Management Major will:
- know the vocabulary of the operations management discipline;
- be able to explain key operations management concepts such as operations strategy, planning, scheduling, processes and their relationship;
- be able to apply operations management concepts to solve operations management problems such as related to planning, scheduling, the supply chain and quality management;
- be able to calculate resource allocations using operations management tools and techniques and analyze performance using appropriate quantitative methods;
- be able to assess a company's resource needs based on weekly shifts in simulated operations performance.