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  New! Articles   
+ New! Business Process Re-engineering's Come-back
                By Amit Kurseja

+ New! Process Improvement in Indian Service Sector: The SSE-CMM Way
                By Subhashini Acharya

+ New! Supply Chain Processes in a Manufacturing Company
                By Manish Jain

+ Motivation & Competitiveness Framework for Application Support Teams
                By Ashish Gupta

+ Relevance & Application of Six Sigma in Services Sector
                By Jinesh Kothari & Abhishek Raghuvanshi

+ Planning for Demand Uncertainties During Promotional Cycles of Modern Retail
                By Sauraraj Nath & Vikrant P. Bawane

+ Cost Reduction Strategy for a Manufacturing Set-up
                By Manish Jain

+ Relevance & Application of Six Sigma in Services Sector
                By Ankur Gupta & Sumit Roshan

+ Relevance & Application of Six Sigma in Services Sector
                By Aniket Raj Agarwal & Nikhil K. Jainender

+ Planning for Demand Uncertainties during Promotional Cycles of Modern Retail
                By Devdatta Jain & Meenakshi Chhajer

+ Operational Innovation in Healthcare Sector
                By Dr. Shreyas Goswami

+ Using 'Theory of Constraints' in Improving Urban Infrastructure
                By Vempati Karthik

+ Supply Chain Strategies in Retail
                By Gautam Sukanya Krishnan & Amit Kumar

+ Vendor Managed Inventory
                By Guruprasad Pasupulety

+ Using 'Theory of Constraints' in Improving Urban Infrastructure
                By R. Rajesh & Kiron Kumar Varma


  Operations Management Articles Archives   

Click here to see the listing of all the Operations-related articles.


  OPSYRUS 2007   

Operations Interest Group @ IIM Lucknow in association with CoolAvenues.com presents Paper Writing Competition 'Opsyrus 2007'. Click here to check the details and send your entries...


  OPSYRUS 2006 Results   

Following is the Winner Entry of Opsyrus 2006, the CoolAvenues - OIG-IIM Lucknow Paper Writing Competition held during Oct-Dec 2006. You can click here to check the final results.

I Prize! Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
                By Abhishek Siroya & Hemant Joshi

II Prize! Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
                By Bhupinder Singh & Prasad Deo

III Prize! Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
                By G. Vamsee Chandra

IV Prize! Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
                By Varun Gupta & Naresh Mahadevan

V Prize! Indian Infrastructure Development: Operations Making the Vision Come True
                By N. V. Chakravarthy

VI Prize! Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
                By Uday Sankar A. & S. Yogendra

VII Prize! Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
                By Praneet Parate & Anusha Jain

VIII Prize! Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
                By Anshuman Harjai & Ibin Issac Abraham

IX Prize! Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
                By Madhuker Priyesh & Varun Ramanan

X Prize! Infrastructure Development in India: Challenges & Opportunities from Operations Management Perspective
                By Jayant Trivedi & Saloni Gaba


  OPSYRUS 2005 Results   

Click here to check the final results and top-10 winning entries of Opsyrus 2005 organized by CoolAvenues.com and OIG (IIM Lucknow) and held in October 2005.


  Discussion Board   
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  Operations Management Resources on the Web   

ISBinsight: Latest Issues of The ISB Magazine

Resources on Quality management

Searchable databases on Operations Management

BPR Online learning Center
The BPR Online Learning Center is one of the industry's most comprehensive resources for reengineering and change management teams. The learning center offers an index of BPR articles from around the world, an online tutorial series, benchmarking studies, yellow pages for BPR resources, and information on reengineering toolkits and document templates for project teams.

Informs
One of the very comprehensive sites related to operations management. This is the online information service for the Institute for Operations research and the Management Sciences. Various resources are available, including a searchable database of bibliographic information about publications in the field.

Operations Management Center
The OM Center provides support for students, faculty, and professionals in search of resources related to all aspects of Operations Management. It provides information and links relevant to the OM discipline, as well as to Irwin/McGraw-Hill texts and support materials.

Michael Trick's Operations Research Page
List of various resources and information on the area of operations research and its applications.

Institute of Operations Management
This is the web site of Institute of Operations Management, a professional body for those involved in production and operations management in manufacturing and service industries in the UK.

International Purchasing Supply Education and Research Association
IPSERA is an active international network of academics and practitioners committed to the development of the greater understanding of matters and issues affecting the future of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.

WWW guide to project management research sites
Created and regularly updated by a member of Umea Business School in Sweden, this site is basically a list of useful links, divided into research, universities, indices, associations, consultancy services and miscellaneous.

Production/operations Management Club
This home page is dedicated to enhancing the learning experiences of operations management students.

Logistics Management Institute
LMI is a private, nonprofit corporation that provides management consulting, research, and analysis to governments and other nonprofit organizations. While historically focused on logistics, LMI today provides its clients with expertise across a broad range of specialties.

Agility Forum
The Agility Forum is the leading provider of Agility knowledge, products, and consulting services to strengthen the U.S. economy. We help industry, government, education and services adopt system-level strategies to prosper in rapidly changing, often unpredictable global markets.

Product Data Management Information Center
Product Data Management is a rapidly evolving technology without a central information resource. Rising out of the uneven terrain of today's industry comes the Product Data Management Information Center, which provides organizations and individuals with the necessary information. This site provides comprehensive information on the advantages of PDM, benefits of PDM technology and various tools and techniques related to PDM.

Operations Research and Related Sites
Lists a host of resources and links in the area of operations research.

Quality Resources Online
A collection of free Quality-related information, groups, discussion lists and resources. Has a large number of links that may be good starting points.
Added 28 July 1998.

Online Quality Resource Guide
A good American resource that gives extensive links to the most popular, if rather uncritical quality management resources on the internet.

ISO: International Standards Organization
(http://www.iso.ch)
Standards are documented agreements containing technical specifications or other precise criteria to be used consistently as rules, guidelines, or definitions of characteristics, to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity. ISO's work results in international agreements, which are published as International Standards.

Here are list of various societies and organizations related to Operations management.

American Society of Quality (ASQ)

APICS

DSI (Decision Sciences Institutes)

INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)

Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

National Association of Purchasing Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)