《Operation Management》Syllabus

Course Number:           2310060815

Course Name:               Operation Management

Instructors:                    Guo Xian

Required Text:       Production Operation Management of Maersk (6th Edition), Chen Rongqiu Ma Shihua, China Machine Press, 2022

Course Description:      This course is a professional elective course for marketing majors. The purpose of this course is to make students understand the research scope, development direction and development trend of business operation management, inspire students' interest in business operation management, master the basic concepts, principles and methods of business operation management, establish advanced business operation management concepts, and cultivate the correct methods to solve business operation problems.

                                                                                                   Credit/Teaching Hours

Outline of UG CPC Topics Covered in this Course:  (2.5Credits/40 Teaching Hours)

I. Introduction to Operation Management                   4 Teaching hours

-Concept of production operation management

-Content of Production operation management

-Division of production operation types

-Development trend of production operation management

II. Business strategy and operational strategy                4 Teaching hours

-The importance of strategic management

-Strategic management theory

-Strategic management process

-Production operation strategy

III. Location and layout of production and service facilities    6 Teaching hours

-Content of facility siting

-Evaluation methods for facility siting

-The content and principle of facility layout

-The principle and form of specialization of production units

-Type and method of facility layout

IV. Integrated production planning                        6 Teaching hours

-The levels of enterprise plans and the interrelationships between different plans;

-Production planning system and its level division

-Production planning index system

-Rolling planning method

-Capability planning

-Strategies for dealing with uneven demand

-Formulation of comprehensive production plan

-Preparation of product production plan

-Revenue management

V. Inventory control                                     4 Teaching hours

-Basic problems of inventory control

-Inventory control system

-The basic model of inventory control

VI. Material requirements planning and enterprise           6 Teaching hours

-Generation and development of material requirements planning

-The basic principle of material requirements planning

-The structure of material requirements planning system

-Processing process of material requirement plan

-MRP system design decision and application of technical problems

-Manufacturing resource planning and enterprise resource planning

VII. Operation plan and control                           4 Teaching hours

-Content of production operation plan

-Quantitative standard

-Operation sorting

- Production operation control

-Operation plan for service industry

VIII. Lean production                                    6 Teaching hours

-The content of lean production

-Lean production's awareness of waste

-The realization of just-in-time production

-Conditions and guarantees for implementing lean production

               Total (Teaching Hours)                                                                  40  

Summary of UG CPC Topics Covered in this Course:                   (40Teaching Hours)