Supply Chain Management

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    Module 1: Understanding the Supply Chain Management
    • Discuss the goal of a supply chain and explain the impact of supply chain decisions on the success of a firm
    • Identify the three key supply chain decision phases and explain the significance of each one
    • Describe the cycle and push/pull views of a supply chain
    • Classify the supply chain macro processes in a firm

    Module 2: Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope
    • Explain why achieving strategic fit is critical to a company's overall success
    • Describe how a company achieves strategic fit between its supply chain strategy and its competitive strategy
    • Discuss the importance of expanding the scope of strategic fit across the supply chain
    • Describe the major challenges that must be overcome to manage a supply chain successfully

    Module 3: Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics
    • Describe key financial measures of firm performance
    • Identify the major drivers of supply chain performance
    • Discuss the role of each driver in creating strategic fit between the supply chain strategy and the competitive strategy
    • Define the key metrics that track the performance of the supply chain in terms of each driver

    Module 4: Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to Online Sales
    • Identify the key factors to be considered when designing a distribution network
    • Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various distribution options
    • Understand how online sales have affected the design of distribution networks in different industries

    Module 5: Network Design in the Supply Chain
    • Understand the role of network design in a supply chain
    • Identify factors influencing supply chain network design decisions
    • Develop a framework for making network design decisions
    • Use optimization for facility location and capacity allocation decisions

    Module 6: Designing Global Supply Chain Networks
    • Identify factors that need to be included in total cost when making global sourcing decisions
    • Define uncertainties that are particularly relevant when designing global supply chains
    • Explain different strategies that may be used to mitigate risk in global supply chains
    • Understand decision tree methodologies used to evaluate supply chain design decisions under uncertainty

    Module 7: Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
    • Understand the role of forecasting for both an enterprise and a supply chain
    • Identify the components of a demand forecast
    • Forecast demand in a supply chain given historical demand data using time-series methodologies
    • Analyze demand forecasts to estimate forecast error

    Module 8: Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain
    • Identify the decisions that are best solved by aggregate planning
    • Understand the importance of aggregate planning as a supply chain activity
    • Describe the information needed to produce an aggregate plan
    • Explain the basic trade-offs to consider when creating an aggregate plan
    • Formulate and solve basic aggregate planning problems using Microsoft Excel

    Module 9: Sales and Operations Planning: Planning Supply and Demand in a Supply Chain
    • Manage supply to improve synchronization in a supply chain in the face of predictable variability
    • Manage demand to improve synchronization in a supply chain in the face of predictable variability
    • Use sales and operations planning to maximize profitability when faced with predictable variability in a supply chain

    Module 10: Coordination in a Supply Chain
    • Describe supply chain coordination and the bullwhip effect, and their impact on supply chain performance
    • Identify obstacles to coordination in a supply chain
    • Discuss managerial levers that help achieve coordination in a supply chain
    • Understand the different forms of collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment possible in a supply chain

    Module 11: Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
    • Balance the appropriate costs to choose the optimal lot size and cycle inventory in a supply chain
    • Understand the impact of quantity discounts on lot size and cycle inventory
    • Devise appropriate discounting schemes for a supply chain
    • Understand the impact of trade promotions on lot size and cycle inventory
    • Identify managerial levers that reduce lot size and cycle inventory in a supply chain without increasing cost

    Module 12: Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
    • Understand the role of safety inventory in a supply chain
    • Identify factors that influence the required level of safety inventory
    • Describe different measures of product availability
    • Utilize managerial levers available to lower safety inventory and improve product availability

    Module 13: Determining the Optimal Level of Product Availability
    • Identify the factors affecting the optimal level of product availability and evaluate the optimal cycle service level
    • Use managerial levers that improve supply chain profitability through optimal service levels
    • Understand conditions under which postponement is valuable in a supply chain
    • Allocate limited supply capacity among multiple products to maximize expected profits

    Module 14: Transportation in a Supply Chain
    • Understand the role of transportation in a supply chain
    • Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different modes of transportation
    • Discuss the role of infrastructure and policies in transportation
    • Identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of various transportation network design options
    • Identify trade-offs that shippers need to consider when designing a transportation network

    Module 15: Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
    • Understand the role of sourcing in a supply chain
    • Discuss factors that affect the decision to outsource a supply chain function
    • Identify dimensions of supplier performance that affect total cost
    • Structure successful auctions and negotiations
    • Describe the impact of risk sharing on supplier performance and information distortion
    • Design a tailored supplier portfolio

    Module 16: Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain
    • Understand the role of revenue management in a supply chain
    • Identify conditions under which revenue management tactics can be effective
    • Describe trade-offs that must be considered when making revenue management decisions

    Module 17: Information Technology in a Supply Chain
    • Understand the importance of information and information technology in a supply chain
    • Know at a high level how each supply chain driver uses information
    • Understand the major applications of supply chain information technology and the processes that they enable

    Module 18: Sustainability in a Supply Chain
    • Understand the importance of sustainability in a supply chain
    • Discuss the challenge to sustainability posed by the tragedy of the commons
    • Describe key metrics that can be used to measure sustainability for a supply chain
    • Identify opportunities for improved sustainability in various supply chain drivers

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