BPA 246 - Business Operations and Logistics

• Identify the four basic production and service process types.
• Explain the link between Total Quality Management and Process Control in manufacturing based operations.
• Apply product-service bundle design and implementation strategies to create an operational system suitable for manufacturing based requirements.
• Identify manufacturing based facility layout designs related to fixed-position, product, process, cellular, and hybrid layout types while applying an efficient and effective facility layout.
• Define manufacturing job designs including components of social responsibility, task accomplishment time and procedures, profit chain model metrics, and new job design. 
• Create a master schedule that addresses capacity planning, order quantities, and demand and lead times.
• Apply detailed scheduling processes to a manufacturing model, including master schedules, JIT inventory management systems, material planning considerations, automation, and e-commerce.
• Explain customer fulfillment strategies in relationship to vendors and customers through forecasting, demand planning, partnerships, and collaboration.
• Explain how the physical flow of goods interacts with the manufacturing process, including new product introduction, order fulfillment, and forward and reverse logistics models.
• Describe transportation services as it relates to the manufacturing process.
• Explain how outsourcing impacts the global market.