Foundations of Operations Strategy and Supply Chain Management

1.5 credits · GM

This course will cover contemporary foundational research in the area of operations management. The focus will be on issues related to coordination, contracting, information flow and variability propagation in global supply chains. Later sessions will cover more contemporary issues around food supply chains, the carbon footprint of supply chains, the configuration of supply chain networks, issues of food waste, etc. Participants must have an advanced knowledge of static and dynamic game theory to follow the papers studied.