Operations Management

• Operations management foundations.
• Operations trends, roles, and strategic decisions.
• OM contribution to business strategy.

Introduction to Manufacturing Management

• Manufacturing strategy and environments.
• Variety, volume, lead time, and process choices.
• Batch vs. flow and push vs. pull production.

Manufacturing Product Structures

• Product structures and bills of material.
• Work centers, routing, utilization, and efficiency.
• Manufacturing costing and standard cost calculation.

Basics of Material Requirements Planning

• Independent vs. dependent demand.
• Time phasing, MRP inputs, and outputs.
• BOM explosion, PAB, net requirements, and MRP grids.

Managing with MRP

• MRP planner role and MRP changes.
• MRP generation and supply orders.
• Action messages, problem indicators, and performance measures.

Capacity Planning and Management

• Capacity management levels.
• CRP, capacity inputs, and process steps.
• Work center capacity, load profiles, and shortages.

Production Activity Control

• PAC goals and characteristics.
• Order release, scheduling, dispatching, and data collection.
• Control, feedback, corrective actions, and closeout.

Advanced Scheduling

• Push and pull scheduling.
• Dispatching, rescheduling, and schedule conflict resolution.
• Bottleneck scheduling, input/output control, and lot splitting.

Lean Production Management

• Lean and JIT concepts.
• Waste reduction, standardization, and 5S.
• Pull systems, Kanban, production leveling, takt time, and customer focus.