Operations Analytics
- Offered byCoursera
Operations Analytics at Coursera Overview
Duration | 12 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Go to Website |
Credential | Certificate |
Operations Analytics at Coursera Highlights
- Offered By University of Pennsylvania
- Earn a certificate from University of Pennsylvania
- 19% got a pay increase or promotion
- 51% got a tangible career benefit from this course
Operations Analytics at Coursera Course details
- The course on operations analytics, taught by three of WhartonÃ???'¢Ã????Ã????s leading experts, focuses on how the data can be used to profitably match supply with demand in various business settings. In this course, you will learn how to model future demand uncertainties, how to predict the outcomes of competing policy choices and how to choose the best course of action in the face of risk. The course will introduce frameworks and ideas that provide insights into a spectrum of real-world business challenges, will teach you methods and software available for tackling these challenges quantitatively as well as the issues involved in gathering the relevant data.
- This course is designed to impact the way you think about transforming data into better decisions. Recent extraordinary improvements in data-collecting technologies have changed the way firms make informed and effective business decisions.
Operations Analytics at Coursera Curriculum
Week-1-Introduction, Descriptive and Predictive Analytics
Course Introduction and Welcome
The Newsvendor Problem
Moving Averages
Trends, Seasonality
Week 1 Wrap-up, Apparel Industry
Week-2-Prescriptive Analytics, Low Uncertainty
How to Build an Optimization Model
Optimizing with Solver
Network Optimization Example
(Optional) Week 2 Review
(Optional) Solver on Mac
(Optional) Solver in Google Sheets
Week-3-Predictive Analytics, Risk
Comparing Decisions in Uncertain Settings
Simulating Uncertain Outcomes in Excel
Interpreting and Visualizing Simulation Output
(Optional) Week 3 Review
Week-4-Prescriptive Analytics, High Uncertainty
Decision Trees
Using Simulation with Decision Trees
Using Optimization Together with Simulation
Week 4 Wrap-up
(Optional) Session 4 Review
(Optional) Advanced Session on Optimization