Supply Chain Management Final Course Outline
SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (MGT 403)
Instructor: Saba Rana Term: Spring, 13
Course Objective:
The goal of this course is to cover high-level supply chain strategies and concepts while introducing the analytical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. As the function of supply chain management is to design and manage the processes, assets, and flows of material and information required to satisfy customers’ demands. Supply logistics related costs account for 20-25% of a typical firm’s total cost. On the revenue side the supply chain decisions have a direct impact on the market penetration and customer service. Globalization of economy and electronic commerce has heightened the strategic importance and of supply chain management and created new opportunities for using supply chain strategy and planning as a competitive tool. Electronic commerce has not only created new distribution channels for consumers but also revolutionized the industrial marketplace by facilitating inter-firm communication and by creating efficient markets through trading communities. Moreover combination of enterprise information infrastructure and the Internet has paved the way for a variety of supply chain optimization technologies.
1. Understanding the supply chain: What is a Supply Chain?, Decision Phases in a Supply Chain, Process View of a Supply Chain, The Importance of Supply Chain Flows followed by examples of supply chain.
2. Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope, Competitive and supply chain strategies, Achieving strategic fit and Expanding strategic scope
3. Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics: Drivers of supply chain performance, A framework for structuring key drivers i.e. facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing, Obstacles to achieving fit
4. Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business: The Role of Distribution in the Supply
Instructor: Saba Rana Term: Spring, 13
Course Objective:
The goal of this course is to cover high-level supply chain strategies and concepts while introducing the analytical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. As the function of supply chain management is to design and manage the processes, assets, and flows of material and information required to satisfy customers’ demands. Supply logistics related costs account for 20-25% of a typical firm’s total cost. On the revenue side the supply chain decisions have a direct impact on the market penetration and customer service. Globalization of economy and electronic commerce has heightened the strategic importance and of supply chain management and created new opportunities for using supply chain strategy and planning as a competitive tool. Electronic commerce has not only created new distribution channels for consumers but also revolutionized the industrial marketplace by facilitating inter-firm communication and by creating efficient markets through trading communities. Moreover combination of enterprise information infrastructure and the Internet has paved the way for a variety of supply chain optimization technologies.
1. Understanding the supply chain: What is a Supply Chain?, Decision Phases in a Supply Chain, Process View of a Supply Chain, The Importance of Supply Chain Flows followed by examples of supply chain.
2. Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope, Competitive and supply chain strategies, Achieving strategic fit and Expanding strategic scope
3. Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics: Drivers of supply chain performance, A framework for structuring key drivers i.e. facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing, Obstacles to achieving fit
4. Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business: The Role of Distribution in the Supply