Supply Chain Management

Introduction

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a topic of high importance. In times of challenges like climate issues, pandemic, and war, we have seen that international supply chain management has been critical to ensure necessary supplies of goods to consumers in all global markets. The purpose of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of SCM. The course cover subject fields like sourcing, inventory, forecasting, logistics and transport. We work with how to deliver customer value at a minimum total cost and learn the importance of taking a chain perspective. Supply chains compete against supply chains, which require an understanding of information sharing, coordination and collaboration in business relationships. The course will also address sustainability, and discuss the triple bottom line dimensions of social, environmental, and economic performance.

Course content

• What is supply chain management
• The concepts and tools to analyze supply chains
• Information sharing and collaboration across the supply chain
• Practicing supply chain management through an online role play called “the supply chain game”.
• To evaluate sustainability in a supply chain.
• Important decisions in international supply chains