SCM 4210 - Advanced Topics in Supply Chain Management

Credits: 3
Lecture: 45
Lab: 0

Presents, as a capstone course, a current and future view of industry trends and direction of integrated logistics and supply chain management. Oral and written discussions based on student assessment of the industry in areas such as procurement strategies, strategic outsourcing, mitigation of supply chain risks, strategic allocation of inventories, transportation and distribution issues, scheduling and sequencing issues and customer service issues will be complemented by guest lectures, webinars etc. in order to address a wide array of current, trending and advanced topics. Supply Chain modeling will be used by students to demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate a company’s current value chain and through the use of experimentation, prepare and present recommendations to improve the value chain. (Final assessment)

Prerequisite(s): SCM 4010
Corequisite(s): None