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D-Lab: Supply Chains

3-3-6 units · Undergraduate

Introduces concepts of supply chain design and planning with a focus on supply chains for products destined to improve quality of life in developing countries. Topics include demand estimation, process analysis and improvement, facility location and capacity planning, inventory management, and supply chain coordination. Also covers issues specific to emerging markets, such as sustainable supply chains, choice of distribution channels, and how to account for the value-adding role of a supply chain. Students conduct D-Lab-based projects on supply chain design or improvement. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.

Fall 2014

Topics

  • Demand Management and Forecasting (Finish)
  • Process Analysis Case Discussion: Kristen’s Cookie Company
  • Process Analysis: In class we will conduct a hands-on line design exercise in which you will build paper airplanes.
  • Deterministic-demand Inventory Models
  • Stochastic-demand Inventory Models
  • Inventory Management Application
  • Supply Chain Game Debrief
  • Supply Chain Improvement
  • Project Presentation & Class Wrap-up

Readings

  • Most of the class material will be posted on the class web site. We do ask that you buy and read Goldratt, et al. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement . North River Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780884271956. There are 3 editions—any version is fine for our purposes.
    Listed reading
  • Simchi-Levi, David, Philips Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain . 3rd ed. McGraw Hill, 2008.
    Listed reading
  • Hopp, Wallace, and Mark Spearman. Factory Physics . 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill / Irwin, 2000. ISBN: 9780256247954.
    Listed reading
  • Hopp, Wallce. Supply Chain Science . McGraw-Hill / Irwin, 2008. ISBN: 9781121107793.
    Listed reading
  • Nahmias, Steven. Production and Operations Analysis . 4th ed. Burr Ridge, 2000. ISBN: 9780072312652.
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  • Chopra, Sunil, and Peter Meindl. Supply Chain Management . 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN: 9780131730427.
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  • Shapiro, Jeremy F. Modeling the Supply Chain . South-Western College, 2006. ISBN: 9780495126096. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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  • Silver, Edward A., David F. Pyke, and Rein Peterson. Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling . 3rd ed. Wiley, 1998. ISBN: 9780471119470.
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  • Snyder, Lawrence V., and Zuo-Jun Max Shen. Fundamentals of Supply Chain Theory . Wiley, 2011. ISBN: 9780470521304. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
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  • Webster, Scott. Principles of Supply Chain Management . Dynamic Ideas, 2009. ISBN: 9780975914670.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as 2.771[J] , EC.733[J] Subject meets with 2.871 Prereq: None U (Spring) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-3-6 units

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