Diploma in Management Sciences: Operations Management

There are various good reasons why the student should study diploma in management sciences: operations management. One is that operations management activities are at the core of all business organisations, regardless of the industry they are occupying.

Operations management covers areas such as customer service, quality assurance, production planning and control, scheduling, job design, inventory management, and many more.

Production/operations management is about management and all managers need to possess the knowledge and skills to effectively plan, organise, lead, and control the resources of the organisation.

Within the manufacturing sector the greater proportion of the workers are engaged in the production function which includes specialist fields such as total quality management, work study, production planning and control, inventory control, project management, operations research, etc.

The diploma programme prepares students to enter any of the specialist fields in production or go directly into supervision of workers and thereafter as production/ operations managers.

Experiential training is compulsory, and every effort made is to expose students to manufacturing or service organizations.