In this course students will learn about the concepts, methodologies, and challenges of operations management. Operations management involves the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of resources for an organization?s transformation of inputs to desired outputs - the production of and delivery of goods and/or services to customers. The student will develop an understanding of the factors that are balanced to optimize the effectiveness of delivering these products and/or services. Quantitative and qualitative analytical methodologies aiding in the manager?s decision making process will be explored. Students will study the strategic importance of operations. Topics covered will include process and operations design, capacity, inventory management, forecasting, quality, aggregate and resource planning, just-in-time and lean operations, product design, supply chain, technology utilization and operations in a global context.Prerequisites (must complete before registering): Principles of Management (MGMT 1005) and Statistics (MATH 1065)This course was previously BME-214204 Operations Management.