Supply Chain Design and Management

• Topics

  • An introduction to design of supply chains
  • Logistics systems planning and analysis
  • Issues in designing the logistics network
  • Issues in vendor selection and design of vendor selection decision systems
  • Issues in Inventory planning
  • Issues in designing Intra-facility logistics systems
  • Transportation planning

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Blog
    • Chat Rooms
    • Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
    • E-Portfolios
    • Web links
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Leacture capture
    • Online Quizzes/Tests
    • Standard Media
    • Streaming Multimedia
    • Wikis

  • Online Materials

    • Online Assessment

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• USA-LSM-MAS-2018

Elective

• SWI-MCM-GDI-2018
• SWI-MCM-GCE-2018
• SWI-BMT-MAS-2018
• SWI-BMT-GDI-2018

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject aims to provide you with knowledge regarding a variety of strategies and tools that can be used in the design of modern supply chains. Supply Chain Design and Management is an integrative design subject, aimed to give a holistic view on how to approach designing realistic Supply Chains in real-life conditions and constraints

• Invigilated Exam (50%)
• Group Project (50%)

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.