1. Operations Management Taster
Dr. Nico Savio
Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Manchester Business School
University of Manchester
MBS West 3.65

2. 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

3. What do we mean by operations?

4. 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?

5. 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
Tangible (products) and intangible (services)
BMAN20031 & 20771

6. What is operations management?

7. 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

8. A career in operations and supply chain management?

9. 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

10. Operations and Supply Chain Management ‘stream’ at MBS

11. Operations and supply chain management ‘stream’ at MBS
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

12. Thank you