CWA ICWA Intermediate : Group II - Operation Management and Information Systems

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ICWA :: Intermediate
Paper 9 : Operation Management and Information Systems
[One Paper: 3 hours:100 marks]

Objective . . .

•	To gain knowledge of Operation Management, Production planning and resource management
•	To develop understanding of Information Technology and its use in business environment.

A. Operation Management ( 50 Marks)

Overview of Production Process

15%

•	Fabrication process
•	Metal working process – forming, heat treatment, welding, surface treatment etc.
•	Machining process
•	Class of machine – Lathes, drilling, grinding, milling, planing, shaping, slotting etc.
•	Special purpose machine – special grinding, hobbing, honing, cutting tools, jigs and fixtures etc.
•	Pump, motor, transformer, electrical drives,
•	Classification of industries based on production process
•	Technological aspects of different production process like power, pollution control, recovery process,
•	Plant layout , material handling system etc

Production Planning & Productivity management

15%

•	Time study, work study, method study, Job Evaluation.
•	Production planning and control-Introduction.
•	Forecasting
•	Capacity planning and Utilization.
•	Process planning,
•	Project planning.
•	Progressing and follow-up.
•	Despatching.
•	Scheduling Technique & Line Balancing Problem
•	Economic batch production
•	Human Resource Planning
•	Material Requirement Planning
•	Productivity measurement techniques of factors of production
•	Quality Control

Maintenance Management

10%

•	Obsolescence, replacement of machinery
•	Breakdown maintenance, preventive maintenance & Routine Maintenance
•	Maintenance Techniques
•	Maintenance organization
•	Maintenance problems etc

Resource Management

10%

•	Input-output ratio
•	Linear programming
•	Transportation
•	Replacement of machine
•	Change of Technology and its implication

B. Information Systems ( 50 Marks)

Information System Analysis and Design.

10%

•

Information System-Systems development life cycle, Structured Systems Analysis and Design, Physical and Logical Data Flow Diagrams, Requirements Analysis, Design of New Systems. Data Modeling, data dictionary, entity relationship diagram, structure charts, Transform and Transaction Analysis, Applications in Financial & Cost Management

Database Management Systems

15%

•	File & Data Base Concept, Overview of DBMS, Data Models, Database Administrator, Database Users, Schema. Data Independence, Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), some applications of RDBMS using Oracle & SQL Server

Management Information Systems (MIS)

15%

•	Introduction, People & Organization, System & models, Decision process and evaluation thereof, transaction processing & management reporting, MIS in functional areas: Finance & Cost Management, Inventory, Marketing, HRM.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

10%

•	Functional architecture of ERP, Material requirement planning & ERP, Business Process Reengineering & ERP, Supply chain management, Some applications involving SAP & Oracle (Financial), Change Management and ERP Implementations, Technology and International Considerations in implementation of ERP.

Recommended Books

Title	Author	Publisher
Production & Operations Management	Alan Muhlemann And Others	Macmillan
Production & Operation Management	Adam & Elebert	Prentice Hall
Operations Management and Control	Biswajit Banerjee	S.Chand
Production & Operation Management	Adam & Elbert	Prentice Hall
Project Preparation Appraisal & Implementation	Prasanna Chandra	Tata McGraw Hill
Project Management	S.Choudhury	Tata McGraw Hill
Project Management Handbook	Gopal Krishnan & Ramamurthy	Macmillan
A Profile of Information Technology: Computer Digest	H.R.Banerjee	Jaico
Management Information Systems	Gordon B.Davis & Margrethe H.Olson	Tata McGraw Hill
Managing with Information	Jerome Kanter	Prentice Hall of India
Computer Information Technology	Y.P.Puri & Vipin Puri	Global Business
Computer Fundamentals: Concepts, Systems and Applications	P.K.Sinha	B.P.B. Publications
Fundamentals of Database Systems	Ramesh Elmarsi & Shyamakant B. Navathe	Pearson Education
Law of Information Technology (Cyber Law) with Information Technology (Certifying Authorities) Rules, 2000	D.P.Mittal	Taxmann
Getting Results with Microsoft Office 97	Microsoft	Microsoft
Information Systems & Technology	Dr.L.M.Prasad and Usha Prasad	Sultan Chand

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