Undergraduate GRF-IBA357-2023

Supply Chain Innovation and Optimisation

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Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% Online

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Assessments

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Prior study

Not required

Start dates

17 Jul 2023

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Subject details

What you'll learn

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

Describe the problem structure and typical solution approaches for optimisation problems in logistics and supply chain management.
Compile lists of data and resource requirements for typical supply chain optimisation problems.
Elaborate on how optimisation approaches are applied for logistics and supply chain management problems, in various innovative ways.
Propose innovative solutions for emerging problems in logistics and supply chain management.

This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the program learning objective (PLO): Develop and apply interdisciplinary perspectives to contemporary business practices.

Topics covered

- Introduction
- Optimisation: vehicle routing problems
- Innovation: vehicle routing problems
- Optimisation: network design
- Innovation: network design
- Optimisation: packing and packaging
- Innovation: packing and packaging
- Optimisation: humanitarian logistics
- Innovation: humanitarian logistics
- Optimisation: data-supported decision-making
- Innovation: data-supported decision-making
- Review

Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Description

This course focusses on the application of innovative new technologies across the supply chain network. Currently, for-profit and non-for-profit businesses are increasingly using new technologies to simultaneously improve efficiency and deliver flexibility across supply chains. Specifically, this unit discusses the application of artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, automation, big data and internet of things (IoT), as well as the use and result interpretation of optimisation packages for supply chain management.

Assessments

Solution framework report (50%)
Business problem analysis (30%)
Solution pitch (20%)

Textbooks

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