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Course Prescription
Investigates and explores complex and dynamic issues associated with the design, execution, and improvement of operations and processes. Promotes an applied, integrated, and systemic approach towards operations across supply chains.
Course Objectives
The course offers an advanced treatment of topics in operations & supply chain management that are of contemporary importance. In particular, it features a strong emphasis on the systems thinking and strategy/process-centric aspects of operations/supply chain management, in contrast with the techno-centric perspective of Business & Supply Chains.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course it is expected that the student will be able to:
- Formulate clear and explicit strategies for managing supply chains for diverse product and customer/market-characteristics;
- Formulate operations strategies, including the trade-offs between objectives that need to be managed and the use of various management levers;
- Experientially learn the need for collaboration and the nature of coordination that is required in managing supply chains;
- Understand how to integrate supply chains, from a process standpoint, both internally across functions and externally with trading partners;
- Formulate and implement strategies for supply chain partnering and supplier management;
- Develop incentive mechanisms that are aligned for superior supply chain performance; and
- Design products, processes, and supply chains in a coordinated manner.
Course Content
- Introduction to Supply Chain Management
- Operations Management Framework
- Six Sigma, Quality Assurance Statistical Quality Control
- Process Design
- System Thinking and Business modeling
- Supply Chain Strategies
- Demand Management & Forecasting
- Collaborative Supply Chains
- Purchasing management
- Production and Supply Chain Management
- Quality and Supply chain management
- Inventory and Warehouse Management
- Logistics and Transport Management
- Supplier Management
- Channel management
Training Methodologies
- Case Study
- Individual Exercises
- Role Play
- Group Exercises
- Group Presentation
- Examination
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