Career Options & Prospects after MBA in Logistics & Operations Management

This course will teach you how to drive back-end efficiency. The manufacturing industry has undergone dramatic changes in the last couple of decades. Since “customer is king”, the demand is for best quality with the fastest delivery across continents. As a result most companies have switched gears and have got their production and distribution systems redone.

In short the logistics system has undergone an overhaul to suit today’s customers’ demands. Companies now need a new kind of supply chain/logistics/operations manager and this need has led to the creation of an MBA in Supply Chain Management or Logistics & Operations. Operations Management is the function of managing the operating core of an organisation: the activities associated with creation, production, distribution and delivery of the organisation's goods and services. And the MBA programme in Logistics & Operations seeks to provide Indian organisations the knowledge base relating to this operating core, to help them become domestically and internationally competitive.

About MBA-Operations

The course focuses on identifying, developing, documenting, interpreting for practice, and disseminating innovative approaches in Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management. These approaches are based on model-based research and synthesis of best practices from around the world. The areas covered include but are not limited to Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Reverse Logistics, Enterprise Resource Planning, E-Commerce, Services Management, Production Planning & Control, Design of Manufacturing Systems and Project Management.

Career Prospects

After earning an MBA in Logistics & Operations, your career opportunities are set to broaden. You would easily get opportunities to work in planning and policymaking, motivation, evaluation, product development and inventory control. If your company large enough, you could focus on overall management or on a small specific area of the supply chain. Many supply chain specialists are now part of the team that works in product development, forecasting, and strategic planning. Most companies have become global both in their manufacturing and in their sales and this trend has made the work of operations managers more significant than ever.

Supply chain and logistics MBA graduates get to work as general operations managers, responsible for budgets, hiring and training employees as well as equipment procurement and policy development. They can also work as logistics engineers who coordinate the flow of materials, information, and products for an organization. You may also end up working in manufacturing development and operations managing in production planning, forecasting, quality control and process analysis or in service operations, working as internal consultants and quality analysts.In short, supply chain and operations is a rapidly evolving field ripe with new opportunities.

Payoff

An operations manager can earn anything between Rs 4-12 lakh a year while the figures for a senior operations manager are Rs 6-16 lakh. If you reach the level of VP-Operations, you can take home at least Rs 16-30 lakh per annum.

Skills

• In addition to educational skills, you should have management and leadership skills
• Tech-savvy
• Ability  to work under extreme work pressure
• Dedication and team spiritGood communication skills
• Ability to think your feet when unforeseen incidents like a major production loss or machine breakdown take place.