Operations & Info Management 301 - Intro to Operations Management

An introduction to operations management in manufacturing and service industries. Emphasis on learning the basic principles, using MS EXCEL, required to organize and manage service and manufacturing organizations. Topics may include improved facility layout, project management, supply-chain management, Just-in-Time systems, inventory management, scheduling, and work force management. Discussions of real world applications frequently used to demonstrate concepts.

This class is open to Senior, Junior, and Sophomore Isenberg BBA majors or Sophomore and Junior Pre-SOM students only. RES-ECON211/212,STAT240,OIM240 Students who wish to take OIM 240, STATISTC 240, or RES-ECON 211 or 212 concurrently with OIM 301 should contact Meghan Smith at msmith@isenberg.umass.edu.

Once the course reaches enrollment capacity please monitor the course via SPIRE for seat availability. If you add yourself to the SPIRE waitlist, please ensure you do not enroll in a course that conflicts with this course.

Isenberg majors graduating this semester and unable to enroll in the course should contact Meghan Smith at msmith@isenberg.umass.edu as soon as possible.

The OIM 301 prerequisite options for Business Minors are as follows:
CE-ENGIN 260 - Probability & Statistics in Civil Engineering
COMPSCI 240 - Reasoning Under Uncertainty
PUBHLTH 223 - Introduction to Biostatistics for Public Health
PUBHLTH 490R - Introduction to Statistical Computing with R
PSYCH 240 - Statistics In Psychology
RES-ECON 212 - Intro Stats/Soc Sci
RES-ECON 213 - Intermediate Statistics for Business and Economics
SOCIOL 212 - Elem Statistics
STATISTC 240 - Intro To Statistics
STATISTC 297F - Special Topics- Fundamental Concepts of Statistics
STATISTC 515 - Statistics I
STATISTC 516 - Statistics II
STATISTC 525 - Regression & Analysis of Variance