MBA in operations management: an overview

 

Modern businesses now require an advanced approach towards operations and management, thanks to the e-commerce explosion and growth of production technology and processes.

Business schools, especially renowned ones like Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), the best MBA College in Hyderabad naturally has come up with the specialised business study. 

While many management schools are offering the MBA specialisation in Operations others have many related fields of study such as Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Approach of MBA in OM

Talking of MBA in Operations Management, the course helps to prepare the students for tackling various business aspects like planning, manufacturing, production and services. The course helps the students to have a global perspective on various industry trends and also meet the customer demand and supply aspects by solving different problems integrating operations and production / innovation. Say for example how the ecommerce companies like Flipkart or Amazon has mastered the superfast delivery of products at a standard or express time that all the supplying companies must meet.

 Scope of MBA in OM

The scope of the course aims at preparing the future managers for overseeing a business’s operation management  ensuring that they happen in the most effective and efficient manner. They become the backbone of a company’s day-to-day operations ensuring that delivery of quality product happens at the right cost and on the scheduled time. That is to say,  executing the company’s business strategy on ground.

A student specialised in MBA OM is expected to provide solutions and smooth running of  the processes related to planning, organising and supervising the production and services with the focussed analytical and organisational skills that they learn from the course.

  As we learnt before that thanks to the e-commerce boom, MBA OM is now a very sought after career. LinkedIn alone has around 40,000 related job posts. If you search with the “operation manager” keyword you will get to see plenty of them. 

 List of companies that regularly require MBA OM are among others JP Morgan Chase, Ernst & Young, Amazon India, Adecco, Accenture, L&T,Novartis, KPMG, Genpact,Amazon.com Inc,Tata Consultancy Services Limited,Wipro, HDFC Bank Pvt Ltd, HSBC,WNS Global Services,Accenture.

 

Interesting Job Profiles and Salary Range 

 MBA operations management in India offers various job profiles to choose from and they are available in technical and management fields as well. For example a passed out specialised in OM can find opportunity as Operations Manager, Supply Chain Program Manager, Business Process Manager. In terms of technical employment, openings exist as Technical Operations Manager, Area Operations Manager, Plant Manager.

 The salary too is pretty interesting starting from an average range of 7-8 LPA to as high as 16-17 LPA.