The course content addresses the following topics:
- The integrated role of supply chain management in logistics and operations
- Global dimensions of supply chains
- Supply chain performance measurement and financial analysis
- Supply chain technology: reviewing, sectioning, and managing
- Information flows
- Transportation and distribution
- Supply chain network analysis and design
- Sourcing materials and services
- Managing reverse flows in the supply chain
- Integrated resource and enterprise resource planning systems
- Collaborative planning
- Supply chain planning calculations and simulations
- Advanced plus master planning and scheduling
- Role of purchasing in the supply chain
- Legal aspects of purchasing in the supply chain
- Decision making in purchasing
- The purchasing process: documentation and the legal considerations
- Purchasing and facilities management
- Supplier evaluation methods: outsourcing and risk management
- Purchasing used as a competitive advantage
- Negotiations: administration and legal issues
- Supplier performance management methods and contracts
- Purchasing ethics and link to good governance
- Advanced tools and techniques for lean supply chain and integrated value chain and logistics management
- Manufacturing strategy leading to competitive positioning
- Lean manufacturing tools
- Theory of constraints
- Process mapping
- Value stream mapping
- Facilities planning
- Stock analysis
- Warehouse operations
- Materials handling equipment
- Warehouse management systems
- Transport demand and supply
- Operations and logistics algorithms and calculations
- Maintenance, fuel, and tyre management methods and statistical analysis
- Replacement methods and reliability-centred maintenance management methods
- Costing and financial analysis
- Transport investment and purchasing versus leasing decisions
- Transport and logistics