Operations Management

Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Department
Business
Course Code
BUSN 3380
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15 Weeks X 4 Hours per Week = 60 Hours
Max Class Size
35
Method Of Instruction
Lecture
Seminar
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This course will provide students with a generalized approach to designing, operating, and improving the activities of service and manufacturing businesses. Students will compare theory with actual operating businesses, and develop solutions to real-world problems. Topics include: flowcharting, processes, quality, forecasting, capacity planning, layout and job design, inventory systems, scheduling, and supply chain management. Students are expected to have basic Excel skills.
Course Content
  1. Information and Material Flow
    • using flowcharts to describe and analyze the flow of information, people, and materials within a business.
  2. Product Design and Process Selection
    • nature of service and manufacturing, design of the system, process selection and improvements.
  3. Total Quality Management
    • cost of quality, quality specification, W.E. Deming, continuous improvement, TQM principles and tools, statistical process control.
  4. Forecasting and Capacity Planning
    • simple forecasting methods, time series analysis, simple linear regression, analysis of forecasting error, volume versus capacity, economies of scale.
  5. Facility Location and Layout
    • issues of facility location,  process / product / group technology / fixed position / retail / office layouts.
  6. Job Design, Work Measurement,
    • behavioural and physical considerations, methods, measurement.
  7. Project Management
    • defining a project, organization, critical path method, Gantt charts, crashing.
  8. Aggregate Planning and Inventory Systems
    • production planning issues and methods, Master Production Schedule, MRP, MRPII and ERP; ABC, Economic Order Quantity, Re-order Point, and Fixed Period Systems.
  9. Scheduling
    • job shop scheduling, priority, shop-floor control, personnel scheduling.
  10. Logistics, Materials Management and Purchasing, Just-In-Time Systems
    • integrated management, purchasing and sourcing, materials handling.
Methods Of Instruction

Lecture and discussion, videos, computer assignments, business visits and tours.

Means of Assessment
Assigned Work:  
Assignments   10%
Cases and Term Project   35%
Class Participation   05%
Midterm Examination   20%
Final Examination   30%
  100%

 

Students must obtain a combined mark of at least 50%
on the examination components of the assessments to receive a passing grade for
the course.

Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the successful student should be able to:

  1. describe and contrast service and manufacturing operations;
  2. describe the information and materials flow in a business;
  3. conduct a simple forecast and estimate capacity for a small business;
  4. propose a facility location, design a layout, and analyze jobs for a small business;
  5. plan and manage a simple project using basic project management tools;
  6. describe and contrast several inventory systems;
  7. describe the concepts of the supply chain;
  8. analyze the operations of a small business and propose process improvements;
  9. describe the concepts of TQM, continuous improvement and solve simple SPC problems;
  10. use a computer spreadsheet to solve problems.
Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

  1. Stevenson, W.J., Operations Management, McGraw-Hill, Latest Edition or comparable text.
  2. Department approved calculator.

Requisites

Prerequisites

BUSN 1210  and  (BUSN 2429, or MATH 1160, or B+ in MATH 12), Instructor Permission OR currently active in the:
PDD Data Analytics AND BUSN 2429 or
PDD Hospitality Management or
PBD Computer and Information Systems AND BUSN 2429.

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

Courses listed here are equivalent to this course and cannot be taken for further credit:

  • No equivalency courses

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

Institution Transfer Details Effective Dates
Athabasca University (AU) AU MGSC 368 (3) 2012/09/01 to -
Capilano University (CAPU) CAPU BADM 301 (3) 2004/09/01 to -
College of the Rockies (COTR) COTR MGMT 3XX (3) 2012/09/01 to -
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) KPU BUSI 2405 (3) 2004/09/01 to -
Langara College (LANG) LANG BUSM 2XXX (3) 2004/09/01 to -
Okanagan College (OC) OC BUAD 382 (3) 2012/09/01 to -
Simon Fraser University (SFU) SFU BUS 2XX (3) 2012/09/01 to -
Simon Fraser University (SFU) SFU BUS 1XX (3) 2004/09/01 to 2012/08/31
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) TRU BBUS 3310 (3) 2011/01/01 to 2011/04/30
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Individual assessment 2004/09/01 to 2010/12/31
Trinity Western University (TWU) TWU BUSI 381 (3) 2004/09/01 to -
University Canada West (UCW) UCW OPMT 301 (3) 2012/09/01 to -
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) UBCO ELEV 2nd (3) 2009/05/01 to -
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) UBCO ARTS 2nd (3) 2005/05/01 to 2009/04/30
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) UBCV COMM 2nd (3) 2012/09/01 to -
University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) No credit 2004/09/01 to 2012/08/31
University of Northern BC (UNBC) UNBC COMM 2XX (3) 2004/09/01 to -
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) UFV BUS 350 (3) 2004/09/01 to -
University of Victoria (UVIC) No credit 2004/09/01 to 2012/08/31
University of Victoria (UVIC) UVIC COM 2XX (1.5) 2012/09/01 to -

Course Offerings

Fall 2021

CRN
Days
Dates
Start Date
End Date
Instructor
Status
32856
Wed
07-Sep-2021
- 08-Dec-2021
07-Sep-2021
08-Dec-2021
Ribalkin
Andrei
Open
BUSN 3380 001 - This section is restricted to Business Management Diplomas, BBA Management, PBD International & PDD Supply Chain Management, PDD Hospitality Management, PDD Hospitality Marketing, and both PBD Computer and Information Systems - Data Analytics Stream & Emerging Technology Stream until Friday, August 27, 2021 at 9 am.
Max
Enrolled
Remaining
Waitlist
35
19
16
0
Days
Building
Room
Time
Wed
New Westminster - North Bldg.
N6107
12:30 - 15:20
CRN
Days
Dates
Start Date
End Date
Instructor
Status
35015
Thu
07-Sep-2021
- 08-Dec-2021
07-Sep-2021
08-Dec-2021
Hamid
Bassem
Open
BUSN 3380 002 - This section is restricted to Business Management Diplomas, BBA Management, PBD International & PDD Supply Chain Management, PDD Hospitality Management, PDD Hospitality Marketing, and both PBD Computer and Information Systems - Data Analytics Stream & Emerging Technology Stream until Friday, August 27, 2021 at 9 am.
Max
Enrolled
Remaining
Waitlist
35
34
1
0
Days
Building
Room
Time
Thu
18:30 - 21:20