Course Description

MGT530: Operations Strategy and Supply Chain Management

This course deals with the strategy, design and diagnosis, development, operations and improvement of the supply chain, on which business information and physical goods flow. The success of a business is determined by the competition among supply networks rather than the competition among individual firms. Competitiveness of a supply network depends on how the value creation activities of constituent firms are integrated and provide the values the market needs (price, speed, quality, variety, etc.). In order for a network to be successful, the product and process developments, information management (demand forecasting, order management, production planning), procurements, operations, logistics, and service activities of individual firms should be coordinated and / or integrated. This course prepares students to be able to approach supply chain integration issues by providing strategic and analytic tools that can be used to evaluate the value creation and value transfer processes over a supply chain.