Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Operations Management

Well I'd be thinking about about my current profile of Operations Officer. I thought that this profile may more of relate to the manufacturing process and production related things in the beggining. But, After spending some 8 odd months in this sort of profile, I am convinced about the diversity of the profile -

Overall enterprise process Management

OM can be applied to a varieties of industries such as - retail, materials, supply chain logistics, IT or consulting to make

1. The process efficient.
2. Optimising the costs
3. Aligning the processes with the wider and broader purpose the company ....ie increasing Mkt Share and the Profits along with customer satisfaction.


So, what I intend to learn from my profile are

1. supply chain management and productivity techniques
2. specialized knowledge in process improvement and systems improvement
3. Inventory Management
4. Human Resource Management for smooth operations.

On fringe, I also want to learn the following
1. Use of IT for efficient OM
2. Optimisation Techniques and their real time applications.