Operations management involves product selection and design, process selection and planning, location of facilities, layout and material handling, and capacity planning. It helps companies select the right products and designs to be competitive, optimize outputs from processes, select locations that minimize costs, arrange layouts for smooth production flow, and plan appropriate capacities using tools like marginal costing and linear programming. It also aids in making short term operational decisions around production planning, control, inventory control, quality control, and cost reduction. There are different types of production systems like mass, batch, job shop and project production.

2. Scope of operations management
 Product selection and design
 Process selection and planning
 Location facilities
 Layout and material handling facilities
 Capacity planning

3. Product selection and design
 The product mix makes our system efficient or
inefficient. So it is very important to select right
product keeping the mission and overall objectives in
mind. Design is the most important thing as it makes
us competitive or non-competitive and we use
operations management to find suitable design to
fulfill our requirement with controlled cost.

4. Process selection and planning
 Selection of process involves taking decisions about
technology, machines and equipment. We have to
optimize the output from a given process. Process
planning, detailing the stages of the process , gives us
the idea of optimum automation and mechanization.

5. Location facilities
 It is the most important facility. As we are looking for a
long term decision. So a wrong decision can make us
pay a lot. We select that particular location where
distribution cost and production cost are minimum.
And it is possible only with the help of operations
management.

6. Layout and material handling
facilities
 Layout means positioning of machinery. The machines
should be so arranged that the flow of production
remains smooth.
 There should be a proper choice of material handling
equipments.

7. Capacity planning
 Capacity refers to a level of output of the conversion
process over a period of time. Process industry pose
challenging problems in capacity planning, requiring
in the long run, expansion and contraction of major
facilities in the conversion process. Some tools that
help in capacity planning are marginal costing, linear
programming etc.

8. Operational or short term
decisions
(i) production planning
(ii) Production control
(iii) Inventory control
(iv) Quality control
(v) Method study
(vi) Maintenance and replacement
(vii) Cost reduction and control

9. Types of production systems
1. Mass production
2. Batch production
3. Job shop
4. project