The course content addresses the following topics:
- The supply chain environment, events, and trends
- Systems theory
- Integrated supply chain environment
- Strategic alignment between the organisation and its assets to support the supply chain and logistics strategy
- Tools and techniques used to analyse strategic alignment
- The value chain
- Integrating the value chain with organisational strategy and logistics and supply chain management
- Statistical analysis in logistics and supply chain management
- Inventory management
- Scheduling
- Decision trees
- Lean thinking
- The seven wastes
- Optimising the value chain
- Managing logistics and the supply chain
- Financial management of logistics and the supply chain