Overview
The Supply Chain Management Essentials course examines supply chain management (SCM), and discusses its importance and benefits to the overall strategy and competitiveness of firms of all sizes. Companies are evolving in an increasingly demanding and competitive local and global markets. The course explores all of the key elements that comprise SCM.
Learning Outcomes
After you complete this course, you will have a thorough understanding of: -
- Supply management long-term relationships with suppliers, finding alliance partners, supplier management, strategic sourcing; also known as purchasing.
- Supply chain strategies, and how to achieve strategic fit
- Operations forecasting and inventory responsiveness using techniques such as demand management; collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR); material requirements planning (MRP); enterprise resource planning (ERP); just-in-time production (JIT); and total quality management (TQM).
- Logistics the logistics behind transportation, customer relationships, network (re)design, and service management; also known as distribution.
- Integration linking and sharing critical information systems: coordinating/integrating responsive systems; global integration; measuring key performance indicators (quality, accuracy, timeliness, and cost).
Course Outline
- 1.1: Describe and explain supply chain management
- 1.2: Explain Supply Chain Management Structures
- 2.1: Describe what is meant by supplier relationship management
- 2.2: Describe logistics relationship and the types of relationships
- 3.1: Describe strategic supply chain management
- 3.2: Explain the various organizational strategies in supply chain management
- 4.1: Describe the supply chain model
- 4.2: Understand the Supply Chain Council
- 5.1: Understand logistics in supply chain management
- 5.2: Describe logistics goals and strategies
- 6.1: Describe the value chain and the value chain system
- 6.2: Explain the value chain mapping
- 7.1: Understand operations and supply chain management
- 7.2: Describe the planning and control steps for operations and supply chain management
- 8.1: Describe global supply chain management
- 8.2: Describe the management of global supply chains
