Operations Management Taster

Dr. Nico SavioLecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management

Manchester Business SchoolUniversity of Manchester

MBS West 3.65Nicolas.Savio@mbs.ac.uk

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Agenda

• What do we mean by operations?

• What is operations management?

• A career in operations and supply chain management

• Operations and supply chain management ‘stream’ at MBS

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What do we mean by operations?

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What do we mean by operations?• Operations is about how organisations make/offer a product/service that they

will sell to a customer

• Let’s think about how these are made

• What have they got in common? How are they different? What are the inputs? What are the outputs?

• How about these?

Operations is a ….. transformation process

• The operations function is defined as a collection of processes, all inter-linked• Thinking about the big picture, we can analyse operations at three levels: the

process, the operation the supply network hierarchy of OM

5BMAN20031 & 20771

Tangible (products) and

intangible (services)

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What is operations management?

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What is operations management?

• The operations function of an organisation is responsible for the transformation of the input into the output

• Operations management is about the planning and coordination of all activities related to this transformation process within the organisation

– Strategy– Design– Inventory management– Capacity planning– Supply chain management– Quality management– Improvement

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A career in operations and supply chain management?

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A career in operations and supply chain management

• All large organisations have graduate schemes in operations and supply chain management– It’s a core function!

• If you like analysing operations business problems and implementing their solutions

• Mixture of analytical (quantitative) and qualitative skills

• Some of the big ones are

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Operations and Supply Chain Management ‘stream’ at MBS

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Operations and supply chain management ‘stream’ at MBS

• Stream– BMAN20031 – Operations Management– BMAN31451 – Foundations of Supply Chain Management– BMAN30651 – Strategic Supply Chain Management– Supply chain related dissertation

• Quantitative methods is a base, but a lot of the assessment is qualitatively based

• You can do Decision Modelling for Resource Management, Operational Research and Statistics in parallel

• Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) accreditation

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Thank you