Capacity Management for Service Excellence

• Discuss the concept, roles, and responsibilities of Operations Manager
• Describe the evolution, history, and recent trends of Operation Management
• Discuss the concepts, elements, scope, and factors involved in service capacity management.
• Examine the challenges, risks, and strategies in managing service capacity.
• Explain the theory, reasons, and configuration of queuing theory.
• Describe the concept of facility location and Techniques used for selecting best location.
• Explain the different Facility Location Models.
• Discuss the Factors affecting facility layout and different types of layouts available.
• Summarise the Purchasing Management System and 8R's of purchasing.
• Describe the quality, quality control, causes of variation and stages of quality.
• Discuss the elements, benefits and requirements of Just In Time
• Examine the steps, principles and case studies of Total Quality Management.
• Explain the importance of collaboration and communication with clients, team members, and stakeholders.
• Embrace humanistic, ethical, and moral values in real-life situations.
• Exercise responsibility for the completion of assigned tasks for self and the group work
• Predict and cater to own learning needs relating to the assigned task/work.

• Interpret a multifaceted role of Operational Manager and the concepts revolving around it.
• Paraphrase complex and dynamic evolution, wide array of strategies, technologies, and methodologies involved in operations management.
• Interpret the complex interplay of various elements and factors involved in service capacity management.
• Illustrate effectively managing service capacity by navigating various challenges and risks while implementing strategic approaches.
• Compare the analysis, modelling, and optimization of various factors and configurations of Queuing theory.
• Interpret the idea of choosing an optimal site for a facility and the methods employed to determine the most suitable location.
• Paraphrase the variety of facility location models and scenarios to use them.
• illustrate the elements influencing the arrangement of a facility and the various layout options that can be utilized.
• Interpret the Purchasing Management System and 8R's of purchasing.
• Interpret the stages of quality involving quality control to manage variation and ensure high quality.
• Diagnose the lean manufacturing approach, benefits and requirements of Just In Time.
• Review the implementation of principles and systematic steps while incorporating organization's operations using Total Quality Management
• Assess appropriate solutions for the challenges presented, while practicing humanistic, ethical, and moral values in real-life situations
• Develop project management skills to efficiently plan and execute projects.
• make judgement and take decision, based on the analysis and evaluation of information and work scenario.
• Predict and cater to own learning needs relating to the assigned task/work by accessing appropriate learning resources.
• pursue self-paced and self-directed learning.

The Academic Approach of the course focuses on the “work centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book !), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as well as development of the society.

Learning methodology

• Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
• Learners are then exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the architecture of the tool or Tool Map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions and their inter-relations.
• Learners are then exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level
• Learners then perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made outputs.
• Learners are then engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Learners are then encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• After imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression.

Evaluation Pattern of KLiC Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

MKCL’s KLiC Certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
   • Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments