Unit 1: Production Management
This unit explains the meaning of production and production management, activities and functions involved in production management, the concept of production planning and control, the function of production planning and
control. This unit also explains meaning and types of productivity and the
importance of training.
Unit 2: Operations Management
This unit describe's the meaning and significance of operations management, strategic management process, tools for implementation of operations and industry best practices.
Unit 3: Operations Strategy
This unit describes operations strategy as a competitive weapon competitive capabilities and core competencies, linkage between corporate, business and operations strategy. It also deals with developing operations strategy, elements or components of operations strategy, competitive priorities, manufacturing strategies, service strategies and global strategies and role of operations strategy.
Unit 4: Forecasting
This unit explains the meaning of forecasting, importance of forecasting, benefits of forecasting, cost implication of forecasting, classification of forecasting and methods of forecasting.
Unit 5: Location Strategies
This unit describes the location strategies, location planning process, the general and special factors that influence the plant location and the rating methods used for location decisions.
Unit 6: Facility or Layout Planning and Analysis
This unit explains the objectives of layout planning, classification of facilities, importance of layout decision, types of layouts and finally the evaluation of plant layout.
Unit 7: Total Quality Management
This unit defines quality and quality management and describes the dimensions of quality, the quality control tools and techniques, quality based strategy, the concept of total quality management and total productive maintenance.
Unit 8: Business Process Modelling
This unit interprets the meaning of business process modelling and describes the importance of business process modelling, the logical and physical process modelling, the ingredients of business process and the impact of process modelling.
Unit 9: Project Management – Planning Process
This unit defines project management and explains the need for project management, the principles of project management, project management philosophy, roles and responsibilities in project management, project planning and project process flows.
Unit 10: Project Implementation, Control and Closure
This unit describes the concept of project management life cycle, the phases of project management life cycle, risk management and project closure.
Unit 11: Aggregate Planning
This unit describes the meaning of aggregate planning and explains the steps involved in developing an aggregate plan, advantages of aggregate plan and strategies in aggregate planning.
Unit 12: Supply Chain Management
This unit explains the meaning of Supply Chain Management (SCM), the elements of SCM, the principles of SCM, views on SCM and the concept of collaborative SCM.
Unit 13: Operations Scheduling

']This unit deals with the purpose of operations scheduling, factors  considered while scheduling, scheduling activity under PPC, scheduling strategies, scheduling guidelines, approaches to scheduling, scheduling

methodology and scheduling in services.
Unit 14: Value Engineering
This unit explains the concept of value engineering and value analysis, the relevance of value engineering in modern manufacturing, the process of value analysis, the approaches and aim of value engineering, providing value to the customers and the main benefits of the application of value
engineering.
Unit 15: Just-In-Time
This unit describes the concept of Just-In-Time (JIT), the characteristics of JIT, JIT implementation and JIT inventory and supply chain