Operations Management

Making the machine run — process design, capacity, inventory and supply chains, where constraints set the rate.

11 topics · 1 curated work

Topics

01Foundations & Overviews1
02Process Design
03Capacity Planning
04Inventory Management
05Supply Chain Management
06Logistics & Distribution
07Theory of Constraints
08Quality Management
09Lean Operations
10Service Operations
11Procurement

Reading in Operations Management

1 work

Series2014

MIT ESD.S43 Green Supply Chain Management

MIT OpenCourseWare

Treats a supply chain as a system whose carbon and cost are decided by network design and mode choice, so the operational levers that matter are structural rather than behavioural.

link checked 17 Sept 2026

Business & Management · Operations Management

FreeIntermediate

Also covered elsewhere

This subject genuinely sits in more than one domain. These fields approach the same ground with different methods.

EngineeringIndustrial & Systems EngineeringOptimising whole systems of people, machines and material.

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Reading in Operations Management

MIT ESD.S43 Green Supply Chain Management

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