41 Operations Management Preparatory Programs

The continued growth in international trade and the growing opportunities for boosting sales, increasing market share and ROI, finding raw materials, and lowering costs in international markets have greatly impacted businesses and how they operate. To compete in the global marketplace, professionals must learn the strategies, policies, norms and technology necessary to conduct international business, develop an overseas customer base and ultimately manage the international business operations. To be successful, business professionals must understand and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to manage the starting, or expansion of, international operations.

This course details the key role and contribution of the Operations Management function to the organization and introduces the crucial elements of effective resource management and alignment of people, systems and process to deliver the Organization’s operational strategy.

This course provides delegates with a thorough understanding of the key elements of Effective Operations Management, including: Governance, Effective Performance Reporting both from a financial and quality perspective and concludes with developing and reporting Sustainability to enhance and protect the organizational reputation.

The Business Administration - Supply Chain and Operations Management program at Centennial College focuses on teaching you how to effectively and efficiently run a business.

This course contextualizes the importance of aligning the Operations Strategy to overall organizational Strategy, and details the key planning techniques employed to achieve effective resource management within Operations. It leads delegates through the key approaches to understanding and assessing key Operations deliverables, and also incorporates effective change management within Operations. This course also explores the effective allocation and management of organizational resources including: Financial, Time, and Human Resources. It expands to incorporate effective risk management and the importance of building a resilient Operations Strategy that is capable of coping with a range of changes and risks. The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

In the Business Administration – Supply Chain and Operations Management three-year advanced diploma program, you’ll learn how to perform a variety of essential functions, including marketing forecasting, demand management and production planning. Whether you’re interested in logistics, transportation, warehousing, exporting or planning and forecasting, we’ll give you the skills you need to succeed.

Students in the Business Administration–Supply Chain and Operations Management program in Toronto will be prepared to perform marketing forecasting, demand management, production planning, and other functions, in careers that include logistics, transportation, warehousing, exporting, planning and forecasting. The supply chain management courses in this program will allow graduates to demonstrate knowledge, skills, and abilities related to both business in general, and supply chain jobs in particular.

Business administration is the management of small, mid-size, and large businesses. The objective is to prepare students with the knowledge, technical skills, and work habits to pursue positions in various business fields. The curriculum provides a solid foundation in general business. Studying in this area will help students develop teamwork and leadership skills as well as the ability to motivate people and communicate effectively. This program prepares individuals to manage and direct the physical and/or technical functions of a firm or organization, particularly those relating to development, production, and manufacturing. This includes instruction in general management principles, manufacturing and production systems, plant management, equipment maintenance management, production control, industrial labor regulations, skilled trades supervision, strategic manufacturing policy, systems analysis, productivity analysis, cost control, and materials planning.

To develop the student’s applied and cognitive competencies in the acquisition, interpretation, understanding, and application of management information and decision support.

This course details the importance of understanding the external operating environment and its impacts upon Operations Strategy planning and delivery. It includes a full end-to-end Strategy Creation toolkit to enable delegates to swiftly and confidently implement their learning. You will also learn how to set meaningful, effective and realistic key performance indicators to monitor strategy delivery and progress towards strategic goals. Organizations often underestimate the optimal time horizon for key elements of Operational Strategy roll out. This course provides delegates with a structured approach to time horizon planning and also expands to incorporate Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Contingency Structures. This course covers the crucial role of communication and handover of strategy to both the wider organization and the Operations Management team tasked with delivery of the strategy. The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

Operations Management is concerned with creating the products and services upon which every unit in an organisation depends. Creating these products and services is the very reason for any organisation’s existence; be it large, small, manufacturing, or service. Today, Operations Management has become challenging. Promoting the creativity which will allow organizations to respond to so many challenges is becoming the prime task of Operations Managers who have the arguable task of finding solutions to technological and environmental challenges, the pressures to be socially responsible, the increasing globalisation of markets, and the difficult- to- define areas of knowledge of management. This workshop, therefore, provides a clear, well-structured, and interesting treatment of operations management as it applies to a variety of businesses and organizations.

The certificate in Process Operations Management is designed to help students develop practical skills in streamlining and improving production processes. The program covers key concepts such as quali...

This course provides a streamlined introduction to the core concepts, techniques, and applications of contemporary operations management, including Relation of the production department with other areas, the company productivity, planning of the production, and production by lots point of balance, allocation and sequencing, programming for several products, industrial security and quality control.

In order to keep up with the competition, today’s businesses must have highly qualified operations and production management personnel. Whether it be for the delivery of goods or services, quality, costs and customer satisfaction should be the main concern of today’s managers. In light of this reality, the Operations and Production Management program (AEC) provides students with operations and production management skills geared to the characteristics of the international market.

Brew your way to graduation in the Brewmaster and Brewery Operations Management diploma program! Learn the art, science, and business of the vibrant and continually evolving brewing industry at the 2,300-square-foot brewing facility at Olds College. This two-year program provides you with hands-on training that includes developing recipes, sourcing ingredients, and conducting trial brews.