INTRODUCTION TO INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (2 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: identify business operational problems and issues; assess outstanding knowledge and skills of the operation and supply chain management of businesses in multidiscipline, multifunction, and multicultural organizations to a set of strategies and directions to achieve organizational competitive advantage; analyze and evaluate various operation management concepts and tools to propose sustainable solutions in developing organizational value through its resources; develop strategic innovation through the implementation of operation excellence in the business process as an important aspect of creating organizational value to win the industry; derive and compute optimal policies/variables and performance measures such as costs-to-profits; and propose implementation of operation excellence based on ethical analysis both in the local and international contexts.

Topics:

This course provides fundamental knowledge in planning, designing, sourcing, and manufacturing products and in distributing it to customers in order to provide valuable offerings effectively and efficiently. It also facilitates learning on how effective operations management becomes a key ingredient of successful performance and how it integrates with other functions in the company. This course emphasizes processes of inter-related work activities characterized by specific inputs and value-adding tasks that produce specific outputs. This course explores the key issues associated with the design and management of production, sourcing, procurement, logistics, inventory and warehousing, global operations, international trading, and managing resources to achieve sustainable business performance through innovations.