Master of Business Administration (MBA)

in

Manufacturing Management

Type of Input: Employed professionals working in Manufacturing and allied business organizations, holding an Integrated First Degree of BITS or its equivalent such as B.E. / M.Sc. in relevant disciplines, with minimum one year work experience.

Duration: Four Semesters

Special Feature: This Work Integrated Learning Programme is designed for the HRD requirements of a diverse spectrum of Engineering / Manufacturing Industries.

Input Qualification

The students admitted to the four-semester MBA in Manufacturing Management must:

(i) hold an Integrated First Degree of BITS or its equivalent such as B.E. / B.Tech. / M.Sc. in relevant

disciplines, and

(ii) be employed professionals with minimum one year work experience in relevant domains.

Course No. Course Title Units

MBA ZC411 Marketing 4

MBA ZC415 Financial and Management Accounting 4

MBA ZC416 Managerial Economics 4

MBA ZC417 Quantitative Methods 4

MBA ZG511 Managing People & Organizations 4

MBA ZG513 Enterprise Resource Planning 4

MBA ZG514 Leadership & Managing Change 4

MBA ZG521 Financial Management 4

MBA ZG522 Total Quality Management 4

MBA ZG523 Project Management 4

MBA ZG526 Operations Management 5

MBA ZG537 Lean Manufacturing 5

MBA ZG611 Strategic Management & Business Policy 4

MBA ZG621 Supply Chain Management 4

MBA ZG641 Management Information & Decision Support Systems 5

MBA ZG623T Project 12

Course Descriptions

MBA ZC411 Marketing 4

Definition and scope, consumer behavior, competitive behavior, demand estimation, new product

introduction, product/brand management, pricing policies, channels of distribution, credit management, advertising and other sales promotion, positioning, marketing regulation, market research basics of

industrial marketing.

MBA ZC415 Financial and Management Accounting 4

Basic concepts, double entry accounting, journal, ledger, trial balance, profit & loss account, balance

sheet, cash flow statement, financial statement analysis, ratio analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis,

inventory valuation, inflation accounting, cost accounting and budgetary control systems, financial

analysis and forecasting.

MBA ZC416 Managerial Economics 4

Fundamental concepts, supply, demand, market mechanism; theory of demand (consumer behavior);

production, costs (theory of the firm); market structures (perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic

competition, oligopoly); circular flow of income, national income accounting, national income

determination; money and banking, employment, interest, inflation.

MBA ZC417 Quantitative Methods 4

Grouping data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distribution, sampling and

estimation, testing hypotheses, chi-square and analysis of variance, regression and correlation, non-

parametric methods, time series and forecasting, index numbers, decision theory, linear programming, transportation and assignment problems, queuing theory, network problems, simulation; application of

statistical software (SYSTAT, SPSS, SIMULA8, etc.) and spreadsheets.

MBA ZG511 Managing People & Organizations 4

Concepts and principles of management as applied to a variety of industries and organizations; study of

managerial roles, styles, activities and decision making; relationship with organizational effectiveness;

planning activities, leadership & control; manpower development; organizational behavior and theory.

MBA ZG513 Enterprise Resource Planning 4

Course description to be developed.

MBA ZG514 Leadership & Managing Change 4

Individuals as leaders, team leadership and organizational leadership. Introduction to managing

change, management of change: organizational structure, culture, recruitment, performance

management, human resource development, reward management, employee relations and involvement,

downsizing, and evaluating and promoting.

MBA ZG521 Financial Management 4

Concepts and techniques of financial management decision; concepts in valuation - time value of

money; valuation of a firm's stock, capital asset pricing model; investment in assets and required returns; risk analysis; financing and dividend policies, capital structure decision; working capital

management, management of cash, management of accounts receivable; inventory management, short

and intermediate term financing, long term financial tools of financial analysis, financial ratio analysis,

funds analysis and financial forecasting, operating and financial leverages.

MBA ZG522 Total Quality Management 4

TQM principles and practices; leadership; customer satisfaction; employee involvement; continuous

process improvement; supplier partnership; performance measures; statistical process control; ISO

9000; benchmarking; quality function deployment; concurrent engineering; experimental design; Taguchi’s quality engineering; product liability.

MBA ZG523 Project Management 4

Concepts and techniques of project formulation, evaluation and implementation; Project planning and

scheduling; Risk management; Time-cost trade off; Resource leveling and allocation; Project

monitoring and control; Contract management.

MBA ZG526 Operations Management 4

Operations strategy; process view vs. functional view in operations; factors in product and process

design and selection; facility configuration; demand planning and forecasting; capacity planning;

aggregate planning; planning service operations; productivity of operations; inventory planning and

independent demand systems; materials requirements planning; quality management; uncertainty and

variability; project management; current developments in operations management.

MBA ZG537 Lean Manufacturing 5

Course description to be developed.

MBA ZG611 Strategic Management & Business Policy 4

Strategic management elements; internal, external, external environment. assessment of corporate

strengths, weaknesses and opportunities; planning and deployment of capital assets; profit planning

and control functions problems, pressures, responsibilities, limits of the chief executive; evaluation of

one's own business undertaking; formulating objectives, strategies, policies and programmes for

improving company’s present situation; personnel strength and implementation of the policies and

programmes, development, implementation, evaluation and control of strategies, strategic management

of MNCs, management style and behavior, corporate style, behavior and culture.

MBA ZG621 Supply Chain Management 4

Customer driven strategies in production and distribution systems; Integrated production and

distribution networks; SCM in the context of JIT and MRP–II; Distribution Resource Planning;

Management of dealer networks; Total Control & Product innovation across the supply chain;

Incoming logistics and supplier relationships; Value addition analysis; Metrics for management of supply chain performance; Mathematical models and computer assisted decision support for SCM;

Mathematical programming for SCM.

MBA ZG641 Management Information & Decision Support Systems 5

Data & information; characteristics of information; components of management information systems;

information flows; design and maintenance of management information systems; decision support

systems.

MBA ZG623T Project 12

Consistent with the student’s professional background and work-environment, the student will be required to carry out work-oriented projects. The student would be required to select an area of work in

Engineering / Management aspects that are considered vital to the sponsoring organization. At the end

of the semester, the student should submit a comprehensive Project Report. The student will be

evaluated on the basis of the various interim evaluation components, contents of the report and a final

seminar & viva-voce.