NMBA-6313  Supply Chain Management (MG 723)

Note: The following provides a suggested course description, objectives, and an outline. These may be modified pending discussion with the Faculty Chairs, proposing faculty, and other curriculum reviewers.

Representative Course Description:

This course will introduce basic concepts of supply chain management such as logistics, inbound logistics, outbound logistics, inventory, warehousing, materials handling and transportation. Basics of supply chain modeling for the optimization and monitoring of a supply chain, or a segment thereof will be covered using network (mathematical programming) models. The course draws upon fundamentals that are covered in core courses for management, operations management, engineering management, industrial engineering, and operations research programs. (For example, fundamentals of inventory models, aggregate planning, capacity management)

Representative Course Objectives:

Students will:

• Gain an understanding of the issues involved in the relatively area of supply chain management
• Develop an understanding of the tradeoffs inherent in supply chain management
• Learn quantitative analysis tools
• Develop familiarity with the techniques currently used throughout industry in addressing the many complex supply chain problems.

Representative Course Topical Areas:

• Building a Strategic Framework to Analyze Supply Chains
  • Understanding the Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope
  • Supply Chain Drivers and Obstacles
• Planning Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain
  • Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain
  • Planning Supply and Demand in the Supply Chain: Managing Predictable Variability/li>

• Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain
  • Managing Economies of Scale in the Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
  • Warehousing
  • Materials handling
  • Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
  • Determining Optimal Level of Product Availability
• Transportation, Network Design, and Information Technology in a Supply Chain
  • Transportation in a Supply Chain
  • Facility Decisions: Network Design in a Supply Chain
  • Information Technology in a Supply Chain
• Coordinating a Supply Chain and
  • Coordination in a Supply Chain
  • Inbound logistics
  • Outbound logistics
  • Logistics strategies and global logistics

Issues of supply chain design and supply chain operations

Note – Case studies and real-world applications should be included

Prerequisite Knowledge:

Knowledge of probability and statistics