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Sep 23, 2024
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MG 744 - Supply Chain Management3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits Course Description This course examines the modern concept of optimizing the entire supply chain, from raw material to customer. It considers each element going into supply chain management, including forecasting and planning, inventory, transportation, facilities and product availability. Throughout, it identifies pressures to sub-optimize the supply chain, as each player attempts to optimize its own segment of the supply chain. (prereq: MG 633 , MG 645 ) Course Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Obtain an understanding of the issues current interest in optimizing entire supply chains
- Have an understanding of supply chains and the issues involved
- Be able to analyze a supply chain and suggest ways it could be improve
- Have an understanding of the major tools used to analyze and improve supply chains
Prerequisites by Topic
- Understanding of operations
Course Topics
- Supply chain management
- Global optimization
- Uncertainty
- Logistics network configuration
- Transportation networks
- Simulation models
- Inventory management and risk pooling
- Forecasting methods
- Information bullwhip effect
- Supply chain integration
- Push/pull distribution strategies
- Supply chain management
- 3PL RSP DI
- Procurement and outsourcing strategies
- Make/buy decisions
- International issues
- Coordinated product and supply chain design
- Concurrent and parallel processing
- Mass customization
- Customer value and supply chain management issues
- Measures of customer value
- Information technology and supply chain management
- Decision support systems Modeling
- Putting it all together
Coordinator Thomas Eberle
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