Product Details
Topics Covered
- Operations strategy
- Product life cycle
- Process controls
- Vertical vs. horizontal integration
- Product development methods
- Standardization
- Simplification
- Cellular manufacturing
- Work breakdown structure
- Supply chain and demand chain
- Dependent and independent demand
- Forecasting
- Planning horizons
- Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
- Master production schedule
- Bill of material
- Enterprise resource planning
- Process control
- Capacity
- Constraints
- Throughput
- Total quality management (TQM)
- Lean operations
- Lean supply chain
- Six Sigma
- Statistical process control (SPC)
- Customer requirements
- Total productive maintenance (TPM)
Key Features
- Mobile-friendly
- Badge and credit-awarding
- Fully accessible
- Games & Flashcards
- Expert-supported
- Video content
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Course Description
Learning Outcomes
- Understand why the customer is the focus of operations
- Create an operations strategy
- Differentiate between vertical and horizontal integration
- Compare new product development methods
- Build a work breakdown structure
- Understand supply chain and demand chain concepts
- Analyze dependent and independent demand
- Compare various forecasting methods
- Describe the relationship between the master production schedule and the production plan
- Discuss the impact of sales and operations planning on operations and the supply chain
- Understand the concept of process control
- Identify capacity and constraints in an operational process
- Describe the benefits of the Lean supply chain
- Determine the service level needed to support customer requirements
- Explain the importance of establishing a maintenance and reliability program
Notes
This course has an "Ask the Expert" feature, which submits your questions directly to an expert in the field you are studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours.
As an Accredited Provider, MindEdge offers for its learning events that comply with the Continuing Education and Training Standard.
Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive credit. Learners will have three attempts at all graded assessments.
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Information in this course has been taken from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (® Guide) - Sixth Edition, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017.
The following list outlines the you will earn for completing this course, based on the certifications you have.