Operations management, in its simplest definition, oversees the transformation of inputs into outputs. As a central linear management nexus or bridge, it concerns all activities relating to the creation, production, deployment, marketing, and sales of goods and services. As a generalist function, an operations manager is directly involved in local and global strategies in varied forms, whether they take the shape of quantitative or qualitative methodologies in manufacturing, services, engineering, human resources, as well as logistical concerns such as accounting and statistics. These strategies and methodologies are centr