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Managing Inventory and Designing Logistics |
- Performance drivers; impact of product life-cycle
characteristics on the make/buy decision
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- Manage demand uncertainty; risk pooling; multistage inventory systems; E-business and supply chain inventories
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- Reduce and control demand variability through
product design, postponement, and delayed differentiation
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Supply Chain Coordination and Integration |
- Bullwhip effect, push versus pull and distribution
strategies; impact of demand variability, lead times,
and centralized decision making; role of the Internet
in improving supply chain integration
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- Continuous replenishment; vendor-managed replenishments;
third-party logistics
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Purchasing and Sourcing In a Supply Chain |
- Discuss frameworks for outsourcing; identify areas in which value can be extracted from procurement; understand auctions from the perspective of both buyers and sellers
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Accurate Response in a Global Supply Chain |
- Strategic sourcing for accurate response; designing
contracts and networks for accurate response
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- Performance measures; global capacity as a real
option; opportunities and pitfalls, local versus
global suppliers, centralized versus local control; logistics
network design
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E-Commerce and the Supply Chain |
- Incorporate e-commerce into existing supply chains and identify opportunities and explore different business models from a supply chain perspective
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Supply Chain Risk |
- Sources of supply chain risk and their impact on
supply chain performance; strategies to help mitigate
supply chain risk
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