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Project Management Processes

Project Scope Management: Product and project scope, collect requirements, develop scope statement,develop WBS and its associated dictionary. Project Schedule Management: Processes and tools used for the project time management, such as developing schedule model, methods of time estimation, precedence diagraming methods (network),developing schedules. Project Cost Management: Processes used in the project cost management and development of budget, such as estimate cost, developing budget, control cost using the performance measurement baselines. Project Quality Management: Quality and Quality Management, Quality function deployments. Project Risk Management: Risk identification, risk assessment using quantitative and qualitative tools,developing strategies to mitigating risk, risk response and control

Supply Chain Management

Introduction to Supply Chain Management, Production Planning and Master Scheduling, Materials Requirement Planning, Capacity Management and Production Activity control, Forecasting and Demand Management, Products and Processes, Lean Production, Total Quality Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Re-Engineering of the Supply Chain, IT-Enabled Supply Chain, Decision Support Systems for Supply Chain Management, Data Mining and Data Warehousing in Supply Chain Management.

Organizational Management

Evolution of management thought, classical, quantitative and behavioral schools; Interactions between organizations and their environments. The planning process; Strategic and tactical planning, developing planning premises, nature of managerial decision making, quantitative aids, management by objectives. Organizational structures; Behavior of the individual, work group, and organization; Coordination and spans of control, the informal organization; authority delegation and decentralization, groups and committees, managing organizational change and conflict. Motivation, performance and satisfaction; Building a high-performance team; Recruitment & staffing, Leadership, interpersonal & organizational communication, staffing and personal function. The control process; Budgetary and non-budgetary methods of control; Team performance measurement and improvement strategies. Use of management information systems.

Agile and Lean manufacturing

Introduction to Lean Manufacturing, value concept, lean objectives & tools, origins of lean systems, group technology, 5S, TPM, Single minute exchange of dies, total productive maintenance, Kaizen, Just-In-Time Manufacturing Systems, Push & Pull Manufacturing Systems, Muda, Muri, Mura, Chaku Cahaku, Poka-Yoke, Toyota production system, introduction to agile manufacturing, research projects in agile manufacturing, design of market responsive supply and distributions manufacturing systems, Work place improvements, Reliability Centered Maintenance.

Total Quality Management  

Total quality management and its concepts, quality parameters/characteristics, limits and tolerance of acceptance, quality inspection, generic production/transformation/operation model, product standards and standards institution, basic quality control and its charts, TQM philosophies by different quality gurus  and experts, conversion strategy of TQM philosophies into TQM practices, TQM tools and techniques, system standards for quality assurance, types of  quality audits, technology intervention, TQM awards, indigenous quality initiative and practices.