BUS 333 - International Production and Operations Management

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years

Prerequisite: INTR 202 or a relevant statistics or quantitative-methods courses. This is a course about “stuff” - how “stuff” is made, shipped, and used. More specifically, this course focuses on how executives, managers, and line workers manage manufacturing and related processes necessary to compete internationally. As such, this is an important course, since few students (or others) actually see or know how “stuff” is made anymore. More formally, this course examines international manufacturing and production operations in organizations. Applying a managerial approach, it is intended to introduce concepts such as project management, supply chain management, total quality management, lean systems, and operations strategy, all of which are necessary for an understanding of the international management of operations. Case analysis and manufacturing plant tours, supplemented by extensive use of classroom discussion and written work, are emphasized as a means of understanding the decisions faced in these operations settings. Garvis.