Operations Management

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Characterize the elements of globally sustainable operations management showing how these elements are brought together to support and advance business strategy for successful results

• Understand the concepts of quality and how it is managed within the operations management framework.

• Use project management techniques to manage and evaluate the effectiveness of a project.

• Describe the objectives of planning processes from forecasting to operational plans.

• Use inventory management techniques to illustrate the importance of applicable operational decisions.

• Identify key supply chain concepts including JIT and lean operations management.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Exams	45%
Chapter Homework	30%
Chapter Quizzes and Participation	25%

The letter grade will be based on the following distribution:

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
93-100%	A
90-92.99%	A-
87-89.99%	B+
84-86.99%	B
80-83.99%	B-
77-79.99%	C+
73-76.99%	C
70-72.99%	C-
66-69.99%	D+
63-65.99%	D
60-62.99%	D-
<60%	F

Attendance/Participation:

Participation through attendance in class is required for in person classes. Each professor will publish class policies in the detailed syllabus as to how this is managed.

Late work is generally not accepted. If there are extenuating circumstances, please contact me before the due date.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

MyLab Operations Management with Pearson e-text access code for Operations Management - 15th Edition. This course is part of the campus’ First Day Complete program. The digital required materials for this course have been integrated with Canvas.The link to access the Course Materials is in the first module of this Canvas course. Please sign into Canvas to access your course and course materials.