"Operations management is an area of management concerned with designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations..."
Focus on the production process of goods and services.
"It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as few resources as needed and effective in meeting customer requirements."
"It is concerned with managing an entire production or service system which is the process that converts inputs into outputs."
"Operations produce products, manage quality and create services."
"Operation management covers sectors like banking systems, hospitals, companies, working with suppliers, customers, and using technology."
"The operations function requires management of both the strategic and day-to-day production of goods and services. In managing manufacturing or service operations several types of decisions are made including operations strategy, product design, process design, quality management, capacity, facilities planning, production planning, and inventory control."
"Each of these requires an ability to analyze the current situation and find better solutions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of manufacturing or service operations."
"A modern, integrated vision of the many aspects of operations management may be found in recent textbooks on the subject."