Singapore University of Social Sciences

Improvements in data-collecting technologies have changed the way firms make informed and effective business decisions. BUS352 Operations Analytics focuses on the use of analytics, together with data, to analyse and solve operational problems in various business settings, and transform data into information to support decision making. In BUS352 Operations Analytics, students will gain a better understanding of the classic operations problems with data support, as well as learn to describe and present operational data in a meaningful and informative way. Students will also be exposed to analytics techniques and learn how to apply them to construct quantitative models, e.g., forecasting, optimisation and simulation models, to solve operational problems. Students will learn how to choose the best course of action in the face of uncertainty.