Syllabus for Operations Courses Online
Aquib RahmanAssistant Manager
Online operations courses cater to various types of learners.
In general, the operations course syllabus covers some essential topics - administration, using strategy, leadership, core management functions (POSDCORB), improvement methodologies, etc.
The syllabus for these courses on operations differs in three broad categories (but all interrelated).
Learner Level Operations Course Syllabus
For beginners, the introductory operations courses online are short, lasting a few hours or days. The operations courses, which are the same length, are also for intermediates looking to gain a quick overview of a specific topic or trend.
Udemy, Coursera, and Alison offer a wide range of operations courses for various learner levels. The syllabi of the shorter courses generally have byte-sized content teaching how operations fit into the larger organisational goal.
Then, there are online specialisations or postgraduate programmes in operations that last a few months to a year. The course syllabus in this field will vary accordingly.
Here is a brief snapshot of the topics for different learner levels focusing on operations through online courses.
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Beginner to Advanced Level Operations Course Syllabi |
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Operations Strategy & Structure |
ISO and Baldridge models |
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Reengineering tools |
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Forecasting Demand |
Risk Management |
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Demand & Capacity Management |
Project Management best practices |
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Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) |
Cost Management |
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Scheduling & Planning |
Customer Orientation |
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Business Operations Improvement |
ROI process |
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Six Sigma - Improvement Methodology |
Role of AI, IoT, Blockchain, etc in daily operations |
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Business Communication |
Operational Excellence |
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Statistical Process Control |
Value stream management (VSM) |
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Organisational reforms |
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Business Process Mapping |
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Industry Level Operations Course Syllabus
Operations, as a field, is applicable in a variety of industries, the syllabus for the courses will change.
Topics such as production planning, inventory control, and others exist when studying operations in the manufacturing industry.
But in the finance and banking sectors, the topics will revolve around customer service, transaction processing, etc.
Below are detailed syllabi combined from different online education platforms
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Industry-Specific Operations Courses Syllabi |
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Operations in Supply Chain |
Process performance and to communicate it with buyers and suppliers |
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Contracting in supply chains and mitigation strategies |
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Green supply chains and strategies |
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Minimising the Bullwhip Effect |
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Enforcing supply chain strategy |
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Supply chain performance management |
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CI Tools |
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Operations in Healthcare |
Lean ops in health care |
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Working effectively in a cross-functional healthcare environment |
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Driving healthcare business processes |
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EOQ and ABC analysis in inventory management. |
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SPC for healthcare |
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Specialisation Level Operations Course Syllabus
Most of the online offerings of the operations courses focus on the management side as well.
In operations management, there are specialisation courses and offline and online MBAs.
Then, you have the statistical side of operations - operations research. Other than that, there are related scientific areas such as quality management and methodologies, most notably Six Sigma and the modern Lean Six Sigma approach.
Check these topics under the sought after specialisations in operations courses online.
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Specialisations-Specific Operations Syllabus |
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Operations Management |
Movement of materials, products, and information in production process |
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Customer satisfaction |
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Capacity planning |
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Optimising balance between supply and demand |
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PDCA Cycle |
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Artificial Intelligence in Operations Management |
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Innovation |
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Operations Research |
The Simplex Method |
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The Branch-and-Bound Algorithm |
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Gradient Descent and Newton’s Method |
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Design and Evaluation of Heuristic Algorithms |
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Linear Programming (LP) |
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Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) |
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NonLinear Programming (NLP) |
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Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MINLP) |
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Genetic Algorithm (GA) |
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Multi-Objective Optimization Problems with NSGA-II (an introduction) |
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Particle Swarm (PSO) |
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Constraint Programming (CP) |
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Second-Order Cone Programming (SCOP) |
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NonConvex Quadratic Programming (QP) |
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MBA in Operations Management |
Management Process and Organizational Behavior |
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Business Communication |
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Statistics for Management |
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Financial and Management Accounting |
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Managerial Economics |
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Human Resource Management |
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Financial Management |
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Management Information System |
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Operations Research |
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Project Management |
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Research Methodology |
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Legal Aspects of Business |
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Operations Management |
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Advanced Production and Operations Management |
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Logistics and Supply Chain Management |
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Applications of Operations Research |
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| Industry | What You Might Handle |
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| E-commerce | Warehouse ops, delivery routing, demand planning |
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