Operations management

Operations Management is the management field which designs, builds, operates and improves the productive system which produces the company's products and services. It is sometimes limited to the operation of the company's factories or service provider operations, but this is a misconception as operations management encompasses much more.

Operations management involves several direct management levels of the company's operations including people and culture management as well as strategic and business decision making.
Operation managers usually have an engineering or commercial background, and may have other business qualifications. They usually have had experience in manufacturing/processing plants, as team leaders to production/plant managers, or experience in a service operations role.

Operations management is a broad term and has greatly evolved since the start of the 20th century as technological advances have increased efficiency and productivity, it can be decomposed into several areas such as the following:

Production planning
Quality control
Inventory Management
Capacity Planning
Supply chain
Quality management
Strategic Planning