Capacity Management for Service Excellence
Track Service Management
Duration 30 hours
Skill Level Advanced
Language English

About this Course

Manage demand and capacity in service systems to maintain quality and responsiveness.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • What is an Operation Manager
  • Right Amount, Right Time
  • Right Quality, Right Cost
  • Responsibilities in Operations Management
  • Skill Sets of Operations Manage
  • Introduction - IIFA
  • The Industrial Revolution
  • The Scientific Management Movement
  • 4 Principles of Frederick Winslow Taylor
  • Ford Production System
  • Time Measurement System
  • Founding of Toyota - Just in Time Concept
  • Elton Mayo Theory
  • Introduction - Pepsico
  • Impact of Development of Operations Management on Business
  • Upcoming Trends in Operations Management
  • Case Study - Zara
  • Information on The Tap
  • Company Wide Communication
  • Safety
  • Elevating the Employee Experience
  • Getting Demand in Hand
  • Managing Customer Service Department
  • What is Capacity Management?
  • Elements of Service Capacity
  • Objectives of Capacity Management
  • Scope of Capacity Management
  • Process Activities of Capacity Management
  • Reactive Activities of Capacity Management
  • Factors that Affect Capacity Management
  • How can service capacity be measured?
  • Service Capacity Measurement
  • Decision Levels of Capacity Management
  • Basic Concepts of Capacity Management
  • Business Capacity Management
  • Service Capacity Management
  • Resource Capacity Management
  • Roles & Functions of Capacity Management
  • Capacity Manager
  • Challenges of Capacity Management
  • Risks of Capacity Management
  • Performance Management
  • Application Management
  • Capacity Management Consultancy
  • Strategies for Managing Service Capacity
  • Introduction - Tata Sky
  • Understanding Service Capacity
  • Case Study - Starbucks
  • Work Shift Scheduling
  • Case Study - McDonald’s
  • Case Study - Reliance
  • Types of Employee Work Schedules
  • Case Study - Apple
  • Understanding The Factory Act 1948
  • Introduction - FedEx
  • Integer Linear Programming
  • Case Study - Hewlett Packard
  • Increasing Customer Participation
  • Case Study - McDonald’s
  • Creating Adjustable Capacity
  • Cross Training Employees
  • Determining Service Level Requirements
  • Analysing Current Capacity
  • Planning for The Future
  • Meeting Your Budget
  • How Service Organisations Benefit from Capacity Planning
  • Factors Affecting Capacity Planning
  • Importance of Capacity Planning
  • What is a Queuing System
  • Elements of a Queuing System
  • Queue Discipline
  • Service Mechanism
  • Operating Characteristics of Queuing System
  • Understanding Average Customer Waiting Time
  • Capacity Planning - Coffee Shop
  • Introduction - Modern Queuing Theory
  • Reasons for Using Queuing Theory
  • What is Excessive Waiting
  • Economic Trade-off in Capacity Planning
  • Probability of Sales Loss Because of Inadequate Waiting Area
  • Queue Configuration
  • Facility Location
  • Need for facility location planning.
  • Factors affecting facility location decisions.
  • Techniques used for selecting best location.
  • Facility Location Models
  • Weighted Factor Rating Method
  • Load-Distance Method
  • Facility layout
  • Facility layout Objectives
  • Factors affecting facility layout.
  • Types of facility layouts
  • Process Layout
  • Product Layout
  • Fixed Position Layout
  • Combination Layout
  • Cellular Layout
  • Difference between office and factory layout
  • Introduction - Restaurant Skit
  • What is Materials Management
  • Restaurant Skit
  • Material Cost
  • Capital Cost
  • Overhead Expenses - Accounting for Cost
  • ABC Analysis
  • Advantages ABC Analysis
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Logistics Management
  • 5 Key Areas of Supply Chain Management
  • Inventory Management System
  • Factors of Inventory Management System
  • Purchasing Management System
  • 8 ‘R’s’ of Purchasing - Quality
  • Negotiation
  • Supplier Selection
  • Discussion Between Management of an Organisation
  • Quality and Productivity
  • Objectives of Production
  • Discussion Between Management of an Organisation 2
  • Factors Affecting Productivity
  • Technological Factors
  • Managerial Factors
  • Labour Factors
  • External Factors
  • Discussion Between Management of an Organisation 3
  • Discussion Between Management of an Organisation 1
  • What is Quality
  • Discussion Between Management of an Organisation 2
  • What is Quality Control
  • Objectives of Quality Control
  • Establishing Quality Standards
  • Recommending Corrective Action
  • Suggesting Suitable Improvements
  • Building Quality Consciousness, and
  • Enhancing Reliability
  • Causes of Variation
  • Assignable Causes of Variation
  • Control of Quality Stages
  • Design Stage
  • Purchasing Stage
  • Production Stage
  • Delivery and After-Sales Service Stage
  • Methods of Quality Control
  • Case Study – Apple
  • Case Study – Toyota
  • Case Study – McDonald’s
  • Disadvantages
  • Case Study – Kellogg’s
  • Precautions
  • Case Study – Tesla
  • Case Study – Zara
  • Why JIT Matters
  • Elements of Just In Time Manufacturing
  • JIT in Production & Operation Management
  • Benefits of Just in Time Manufacturing
  • Requirements for Implementing Just In Time Manufacturing
  • Potential Risks
  • Case Studies – Dell & Harley Davidson
  • Quality Management
  • Total Quality Management / History
  • Total Quality Management Principles
  • Step by Step TQM Method
  • When does your organization need Total Quality Management?
  • Using the 5 senses
  • Sense of Taste
  • Principles of total quality management
  • The Hotel Industry
  • Bird’s Eye View – Food Processing Unit
  • Plan Act Check Do – The History - how it happens.
  • Mahindra Tractors Case Study
  • Talking Heads Section – Customers, Suppliers and Employees
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: 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, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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