UK Home Study Business and Law Degree.

The Operations Management module is part of the home study BA (Hons) Business Management and Law course.

The home study BA (Hons) Business Management Law course allows you to study for a business degree through convenient and cost-effective distance learning. The course is structured in small, manageable modules, to gain an honours degree you need to complete the necessary modules to gain 360 credits.

The Operations Management module gives you vital insight into the common concepts and analytic methods that are useful in understanding the management of operations. As well as forming part of the home study BA (Hons) Business Management and Law course, the Operations Management module is also available to study on a standalone basis as part of your personal development.

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Operations Management 

This module gives you vital insight into the common concepts and analytic methods that are useful in understanding the management of operations. The aim is not only to familiarise you with the problems and issues confronting Operations Managers, but to also provide you with the language, concepts, insights and tools to deal with these issues in order to gain competitive advantage.

Key Topics

In this module you will cover a range of topics including:

>Competing with operations
>Operations as a competitive weapon, operations strategy, process design strategy
>Designing and improving processes
>Process analysis, process performance and quality, process layout
>Designing value chains
>Supply-chain design, lean systems

Assessment

There are a number of assessments that you complete as part of your coursework and forward to your academic tutor for grading and comments.

You'll also take a summative assessment at the end of your module. Exam venues are located across the UK and exams take place twice a year. Please note that there are additional assessment fees for each module.