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.

Enquiry

Akogun-Makinde Oluwatosin

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tosin@dutconsulting.com