Operations management is concerned with the ways of achieving the most effective and efficient use of an organization’s resources, such as its financial and human resources, its capital resources and its raw materials. The course presents operations
management as a specialist business function, it will become clear that many of the ideas and techniques are relevant to many other management specialists.
As you will see throughout this course there are many parts to the discipline of operations management and the course is likely to be of value to any manager in any
business.