Supply chain course outline

Understanding the Supply Chain

1- What is Supply Chain?

2- The Objective of Supply Chain

3- The Importance of Supply Chain

4- Decision Phases in Supply Chain

4- Process Views of a Supply Chain

Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope

1- Competitive and Supply Chain Strategies

2- Achieving Strategic Fit

3- Expanding Strategic scope

4- Challenges to Achieving and Maintaining Strategic Fit

5- Achieving and Maintaining Strategic Fit in Emerging Retail Markets

Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics

1- Impellers of Supply Chain

2- Financial Measures of Performance

3- Framework for Structuring Drivers

4- Facilities

5- Inventory
6- Transportation

7- Information

8- Sourcing

9- Pricing

Designing Distribution Networks and Application to Online Sales

1- The role of distribution in the Supply Chain

2- Factors Influencing Distribution Network Design

3- Design Options for a Distribution Network

4- Online Sales and the Distribution Network

5- Distribution Networks in Practice

Designing Global Supply Chain Networks

1- The Impact of Globalization on Supply Chain Networks

2- The Offshoring Decision: Total Cost

3- Risk Management in global Supply Chains

4- Discounted Cash Flows

5- To onshore or Offshore: Evaluation of Global

6- Making Global Supply Chain Design Decisions

7- Uncertainty in Global Supply Chain

Coordination in Supply Chain

1- Lack of Supply Chain Coordination and the Bullwhip Effect

2- The effect on Performance of Lack of Coordination

3- Obstacles to Coordination in Supply Chain

4- Managerial Levers to Achieve Coordination

5- Continuous Replenishment and Vender-Managed Inventories

6- Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)

Transportation in Supply Chain

1- The Role of Transportation in Supply Chain

2- Mode of Transportation and Their Performance

3- Transportation Infrastructure and Policies

4- Design Options for Transportation Networks

5- Trade-offs in Transportation Design

6- The Role of IT in Transportation

7- Risk Management in Transportation

8- Making Transportation Decision in Practice

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

1- The Role of IT in a Supply Chain

2- The Supply Chain IT Framework

3- Customer Relationship Management

4- Internal Supply Chain Management

5- Supplier Relationship Management

6- The Transaction Management Foundation

7- The Future of IT in the Supply Chain

8- Risk Management in IT

9- Supply Chain IT in Practice