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American College Supply Chain Management MBA Course Syllabus Dr.

Clarisse Behar Molad and Neta Levi (Subject Matter Expert and ArgriBusiness Consultant)
Email: cmolad@gmail.com Supply Chain Management From Vision to Implementation, is an education and skills building course aimed at supply chain professionals and business management professionals at the Masters Degree level. The focus of the course is the actualization of an aligned global supply chain strategy towards the effective delivery of prioritized business outcomes. This is a course for those wishing to find out just how to get real results in an implementation sense. That is, how do we know we have the right supply chain strategy to start with and then how can we go about actually putting it into practice in order to achieve our desired business goals. Effective supply chain management is crucial in times of economic and marketplace volatility. Supply chain management thus is increasingly becoming the competitive weapon of the 21st Century. COURSE DESCRIPTION Supply Chain Management discusses the seamless flow of information and goods from the suppliers' suppliers to the customers' customers in the context of profits based on common goals, shared resources, and mutually beneficial relationships. This course stresses the ways that corporate and national boundaries become transparent to the movement of goods and services and uses agri-business in Macedonia as the core real case study for the course. COURSE OBJECTIVES After completing this course, you should be able to: Objective 1 Identify the purpose and objectives of supply chain management. Objective 2 Evaluate the role of supply chain management in empowering customers, leading to a more competitive environment. Objective 3 Analyze the need for and application of process and systems thinking in supply chain management. Objective 4 Connect key issues in purchasing, production, and logistics decision making. Objective 5 Analyze critical issues involved in designing a global supply chain network. Objective 6 Examine the role of process mapping in supply chain design. Objective 7 Discuss strategic cost management and assess various types of price and cost analysis strategies. Objective 8 Evaluate the role of outsourcing and discuss elements of a successful outsourcing strategy. Objective 9 Assess features of successful relationship management. Objective 10 Assess decision making issues involved in transportation management. Objective 11 Articulate the importance of collaboration across the supply chain. Objective 12 Assess effective performance measurement. Objective 13 Analyze the roles of empowerment and collaborative innovation for business success.

COURSE BOOK Supply Chain Management, From Vision to Implementation, by Stanley E. Fawcett, Lisa M. Ellram, and Jeffery A Ogden, (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2007). Reading List Ballou, R (2005), Business logistics/supply chain management: planning, organizing, and controlling the supply chain, Prentice Hall Chopra, S. and Meindl, P. (2007), Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operation, Prentice Hall Harrison, A., & van Hoek, R., (2005), Logistics Management and Strategy, (2005), FT Prentice Hall Fawcett, S.E., Ellram, L.M. and Ogden, J.A. (2007), Supply chain management: from vision to implementation, Prentice Hall Jonsson, Patrik (2008), Logistics and supply chain management, McGraw-Hill Kotzab, H (2005), Research methodologies in supply chain management, Heidelberg Lee, H.L. (2004), The Triple-A Supply Chain, Harvard Business Review, October Narayanan, V.G. and Raman, A. (2004), Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains, Harvard Business Review Simchi-Levi, D., Kaminsky, P., and Simchi-Levi, E. (2003), Designing and managing the supply chain: concepts, strategies, and case studies, McGraw-Hill Slone, R.E., Mentzer, JH.T., & Dittmann, J.P. (2007), "Are you the Weakest Link in Your Company's Supply Chain?", Harvard Business Review, September Van Weele, A.J. (2005), Purchasing & supply chain management: analysis, strategy, planning and practice, Thomson Learning Wisner, (2005), Principles of supply chain management: a balanced approach, Thomson

Topics Business relevance Management of the supply chain

Book Reading Ch 1

Ch 1 & Ch 2 Commercial drivers

Ch 3 & Ch 7 The value chain Functions, systems and processes Ch 3, Supp C Strategy and tactics Strategic approaches to supply chain Making decisions Elements of the supply chain Supply chain operation Multi-tiered chains Inventory and warehousing E-business and fulfillment Supply chain planning Trends in SC planning Supply chain dynamics Bullwhip effect Supply chain design Designing the SC network Managing total costs Collaborative planning Designing the logistics network Ch 8 Ch 3

Ch 5

Ch 8 Designing the logistics network (contd) Manufacturing design Product, procurement and process standardization Postponement Ch 8 Investment decisions Aggregating

Ch 6, 13 & 14 E-business and the supply chain E-Supply chains Resource management

Process re-engineering Information technology RFID Wireless

Ch 10 & 12

GRADING AND EVALUATION Your grade in the course will be determined as follows: Class Participation Class Exercises Team Case Study Presentation* Midterm Examination Final Examination 10 percent (5x2) 20 percent (5x4) 30 percent 20 percent 20 percent

Class will be divided into teams that will develop a case study of an agricultural supply chain in Macedonia aiming towards export out of the country. Mr. Levi will be available for interviews by the teams in preparation for the teams presentation.

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