It emphasizes the major managerial functions, such as planning, organizing, staffing, control, coordinating, and communication, as well as, the role of the manager in a changing environment. The course provides an introduction to management science topics and modeling in the decision making process. It provides students with the necessary background for more advanced courses in the area of operations management and decision support systems. This course examines the central core of operations activities in manufacturing and service organizations. It provides an introduction to the process of producing goods and services with an emphasis on understanding of the operations management functions in the organization.
Students use quantitative techniques and spread sheet problems.
Focused on areas such as product and production design, scheduling, aggregate planning, inventory management, technology management, supply chain management, materials requirement planning, project management, quality assurance, forecasting techniques, and scheduling. This course provides an understanding of systems and development concepts, information technology, and application software. It explains how information is used in organizations and how information technology enables improvement in quality, timeliness, and competitive advantage. It focuses in topics such as strategic information systems, organization and information, principles of databases, data warehousing, data mining, different types of software, systems analysis, techniques and goals for data processing, and information retrieval. This course covers information systems design and implementation within a database management system environment.