Supply Chain Management Strategy

• • Understanding the Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope
  • Supply Chain Drivers and Obstacles
  • Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business
  • Network Design in the Supply Chain - Part A
  • Network Design in a Supply Chain - Part B
  • Designing Global Supply Chain Networks
  • Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
  • Aggregate Planning and Sales and Operations Planning
  • Inventory in a Supply Chain
  • Transportation in the Supply Chain
  • Information and Coordination in the Supply Chain

• Study resources

  • Online materials

    • Printable format materials

You are recommended to have completed the following subjects(s) or have equivalent knowledge before starting this subject:

• RMI-LGM200-Transport and Freight Logistics
• RMI-LGM220-Warehousing and Distribution Channels
• RMI-LGM330-Procurement Management and Global Sourcing
• RMI-LGM100-Introduction to Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Others

You should complete LGM210 prior to attempting this subject as some of the quantitative techniques used in this subject are introduced in LGM210.

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject was previously known as Advanced Supply Chain Management.

This subject considers supply chain management as a holistic logistics management process across the full spectrum of business activities, from the sourcing of raw materials from suppliers to the delivery of goods and services to the final customers and consumers. It attempts to provide a synthesis of the many critical facets of supply chain management and formulate appropriate strategies to enhance overall efficiency and responsiveness through optimisation.

• Individual qualitative case (25%)
• Invigilated Exam (50%)
• Individual quantitative case (25%)