
See how operations management can help you design products that meet your customers' needs with this free online course. This free online management course in operations and supply management presents you with all you need to optimize your manufacturing or service operations to satisfy your customers’ demands. This course provides a mix of ingredients needed to run a successful business. Operations management is a wide field of study but this course breaks it down into digestible steps to help you deliver services and products profitably.
| Course Category | Management Skills, Business |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Diploma |
| Course Duration | 6-10 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Define and explain ‘operations management' • Compare crafts manufacturing, mass production and modern production • Outline the two main approaches to strategic management in an organization • Describe the stages involved in the development process of a new product • Define ‘supply chain procurement’ and unpack the role of ‘e-purchasing’ in procurement process • Explain the three classifications of maintenance: corrective, preventive and alternative • Demonstrate how to plan capacity for an organization • Describe the three types of workflow layout: process, product and fixed-position • Discuss the concepts involved in time and motion studies |
| Course Code | 3345 |



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