Undergraduate GRF-IBA357-2023
Supply Chain Innovation and Optimisation
$1,892 $2,142
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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- HECS-HELP
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 17 Jul 2023
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Subject details
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.
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- 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
No eligibility requirements
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
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.
- Solution framework report (50%)
- Business problem analysis (30%)
- Solution pitch (20%)
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