BUSA 5610 Project & Operations Management

Project and Operations Management involves planning, monitoring, controlling, and improving daily functions within a corporation, whether service or manufacturing. Students will explore current supply chain theories and a variety of tools and strategies for quality, production, and logistics, to provide a platform for critical thinking and analysis that will ensure operational resiliency. The course will cover project management techniques for continuous improvement, reducing cycle time, and mitigating risks or failure modes to complete production as the basis for competitive advantage.

Registration Name

Project & Operations Mgmnt

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Offered

Once per year.

Student Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Perform project selection to achieve organizational objectives.
• Employ modern, readily available, computer software program(s) to plan organize and control all elements of the production and operations.
• Perform an analysis of inbound and outbound materials and services to achieve organizational objectives.
• Determine and analyze the critical components of interdependent supply chains - outbound, inbound, and internal - to get materials transported efficiently and effectively.
• Perform risk analysis to determine potential root causes of disrupted operations.
• Demonstrate competencies in the tools commonly employed in operations and quality management practice to control business processes and outcomes.
• Implement critical thinking, ethical considerations in management, strategic planning, and oral and written communications.
• Explain the need for complex communications required in providing information to all organizational stakeholders, both upstream and downstream in the supply chain.
• Demonstrate a familiarity with quality management themes including continuous improvement, cost control, data analysis tools, and working within an organizational culture.