This comprehensive Home Study course from the Distance Learning specialists, UK Open Learning, has been specially written by an experienced tutor and practitioner in the area of Operations Management. If you want to enter this varied and exciting area of work or want to enhance your knowledge and skills, this is the course for you. As you will see from the description of the course below, the range of the various components of the study of Operations Management is enormous. We cover it all, so that whatever your next step, you will have a good grounding of the theory involved prior to undertaking on-the-job experience or, if you are already working in a business environment, your expertise will be increased considerably