Operations management focuses on carefully managing the processes to produce and distribute products and services.

Operations management is in regard to all operations within the organization related to activities include managing purchases, inventory control, quality control, storage, logistics and evaluations.

A great deal of focus is on efficiency and effectiveness of processes. Therefore, operations management often includes substantial measurement and analysis of internal processes.

The operations manger is responsible for creating budgets and making decisions on employee training and hiring, employee supervision, equipment procurement, and administrative policy development.

Well-developed communication skills are essential. The operations manager must coordinate and confer with other departments and managers within the company, as well as contractors and suppliers.

Operations Management is the systematic direction and control of the processes that transform inputs into finished goods or services. A career in operations management is generally divided between production operations and manufacturing/ services operations.

It is an area of business where, like supply chain management, goods and services are overseen and managed from supplier to customer. Operations management ensures the competent management of resources, distribution of resources, and overall cataloguing or resources and overall cataloguing of resources.

Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management, Pune offers two year professional post graduate programme in Operations Management.