Global Supply Chain Management

1.5 Credits · Level: Graduate, Juris Doctor

"In his book, Edward Humes estimates that coffee beans can travel a distance greater than the Earth’s circumference before they are used to make a cup of coffee. If even simple products have such long and complex supply chains, what about complex products, like phones and airplanes? Should supply chains for iPhones or Boeing 787 airplanes be structured, managed, and evaluated differently than supply chains for coffee or T-shirts? How? How do the supply chains of Google and Facebook look like? What about supply chains for vaccines? You should take this course to find out. By the end of the course, you will have learnt through hands-on, practical examples, case discussions, simulations, and games about: 1) Supply chains taxonomies, 2) How to match supply chains with the strategic objectives and business models, 3) Strategic, operational, and tactical activities in supply chains, 4) Metrics for evaluating supply chain operational and financial performance 5) Inventory and capacity management analytic tools, key factors for making decisions, and key drivers of business value 6)Costs and benefits of global sourcing, the value of flexibility, postponement, risk diversification 7) Effects of strategic interactions in supply chains, 8) Effects of asymmetric information in supply chains, the role of misalignment of incentives, and solutions for aligning incentives, 9) The basics of in Supply Chain Risk Management, frameworks, tools, and metrics, 10) Current economic, political, health, technology developments and their effects on supply chain management"