Session

Topics

Learning Outcomes

Readings and Cases

1

Introduction to SCM

1. Explain the origins of both logistics and supply chain management. 2. Define both terms and outline how logistics and supply chain management differ from each other. 3. Highlight the importance of these areas in both manufacturing and services contexts. 4. Identify how best practice logistics and supply chain management can yield both cost reduction and value addition. 5. Show how supply chains have a major influence on society.

Reading: Chapter 1 from Textbook [GSCM].

2

Globalization and International Trade

1. Highlight the growth that has occurred in recent decades in international trade. 2. Illustrate the key role played by containerization in particular in facilitating international trade growth. 3. Explain what is meant by globalization and the drivers for globalization. 4. Explore the role of multinational companies in global trade, together with the impact of overseas investment by companies. 5. Finally, look at what happens when unequal volumes or types of freight flow in opposite directions in freight markets.

Reading:  Chapter 2 from Textbook [GSCM]. CASE: Dell's Configure-to-Order (CTO) Supply Chain Strategy (from textbook [GSCM])

3

Supply Chain Relationships

1. Explain factors affecting outsourcing decisions. 2. Highlight the demand for outsourcing in view of both globalization and the growth of international trade. 3. Identify the problems faced by outsourcing companies that can result in failures in outsourcing. 4. Outline how outsourcees are selected. 5. Examine how outsourcer-outsourcee relationships develop. 6. Define the terms integration and collaboration in the global SCM context. 7. Explain how internal and external integration can be achieved to benefit supply chain performance. 8. Elaborate on specific methods used to enable collaboration. 9. Offer a holistic perspective of SCM to provide an understanding of how supply chains can gain greater integration and collaboration in the future.

Reading: Chapter 3 from Textbook [GSCM]. CASE: Humanitarian Aid Supply Chain (from textbook [GSCM])

4

Supply Chain Strategies

1. Highlight the role of logistics and supply chain strategy in the context of firm strategy, and see how logistics and supply chain strategy can actually sometimes drive firm strategy. 2. Outline the evolution of manufacturing, from which various logistics and supply chain strategies have emerged. 3. Look at both lean and agile logistics strategies, and the role of mass customization in the latter. 4. Develop a taxonomy of supply chain strategies.

Reading:  Chapter 4 from Textbook [GSCM].

5

Transport in Supply Chain

1. Understand the cost structures and operating characteristics of the different transport modes, and the relationships between freight rates and consignment weight, dimensions and distance to be travelled. 2. Highlight key terms used in transport. 3. Outline the different types of load devices used in international transportation. 3. Discuss the roles of distribution centers and highlight the concept of factory gate pricing. 4. Identify some of the many issues (including the effect of supply chain strategies) that can impact the efficiency of transport services. 5. Review the world's major transport networks.

Reading:  Chapter 5 from Textbook [GSCM].  CASE: Port Logistics City: A Case Study of Melbourne in Australia (from textbook [GSCM])

6

Laboratory 1: Basics of Simulation for Two-stage Supply Chain

1. Develop the technical skills needed to use anyLogistix to create two-stage supply chain models, perform experiments and measure performance
2. Understand the major trade-offs in facility location planning that affect the number of sites, lead time and demand uncertainty
4. Understand the areas of simulation and optimization

Reading:  1. Alexandre Dolgui, Dmitry Ivanov, Boris Sokolov. Ripple effect in the supply chain: an analysis and recent literature. International Journal of Production Research, 2018, Leading scholars in Production Research, 56 (1-2), pp.414-430. 2. Chapter 1 [ALX]. CASE: Multi-Product Supply Chain Redesign (Case 1 Appendix 2 [ALX])

7

Transport Security

1. Identify the need for transport security. 2. Understand the application of contemporary transport security initiatives. 3. Discuss the nature of security threats in transport, including terrorism and piracy. 4. Acquire knowledge of security technology.

Reading:  Chapter 6 from Textbook [GSCM].

8

Procurement

1. Procurement's potential to improve business and organizational performance. 2. Understand how risk and value may affect sourcing and procurement strategy and tactics in relation to markets. 3. Understand the different dynamics of public and private sector procurement and how this affects procurement procedures and decision making. 4. The distinct stages of sourcing, selecting, procuring and managing contracts. 5. How consumer demand and expectations drive governance and accountability in sourcing and procurement. 6.Sustainability and environmental issues as non-price factors in procurement decision making. 7. The pivotal role that procurement plays in relation a wider supply chain issues.

Reading:  Chapter 8 from Textbook [GSCM].

9 & 10

Laboratory 2: Simulation with Production Factories and
Sourcing Policies (Four-Stage Supply Chain)

1. Gain insight into the impact of production and sourcing policies on supply chain
and logistics performance;
2. Develop the anyLogistix skills needed to create four-stage supply chain models,
perform experiments and measure performance;
3. Understand trade-offs in single vs dual sourcing strategies.

Reading: 1.Ivanov D. (2017) Simulation-based ripple effect modelling in the supply chain. International Journal of Production Research, 55(7), 2083-2101. 2 Chapter 3 [ALX]. CASE: Three-stage, one-period supply network design for beverage industry (Case 4 Appendix 2 [ALX]).

11

Inventory Management

1. Explain the significance of inventory in logistics and SCM. 2. Introduce the costs involved in inventory management. 3. Introduce common inventory control systems designed to reduce costs. 4. Identify inventory reduction strategies including just-in-time inventory management.

Reading:  Chapter 9 from Textbook [GSCM].

12

Technology in the Supply Chain

1. Illustrate the pervasive and important role played by technology in logistics and SCM. 2. Look at the growing role of automation in logistics. 3. Show how data can be transmitted and captured in the supply chain. 4. Explore the impact of 3D printing on supply chains.

Reading:  1.Chapter 11 from Textbook. CASE: Patient Safety and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain (from textbook [GSCM]). 2.Min, H. (2019). Blockchain technology for enhancing supply chain resilience. Business Horizons, 62(1), 35-45.

13

Information and Finance Flows in the Supply Chain

1. Examine how data flows through the supply chain. 2. Illustrate the techniques used for supply chain planning and control, and how performance metrics are established. 3. Understand the different types of costs accrued in logistics systems and supply chains. 4. Explain how responsibility for in-transit freight is established. 5. Review the documentation that accompanies in-transit freight and the efforts to ensure a more seamless, efficient movement of height.

Reading:  Chapter 12 from Textbook [GSCM].

14

Supply Chain Vulnerability, Risk, Robustness and Resilence

1. Provide working definitions for key concepts. 2. Explain why supply chain risk, robustness and resilience have emerged as important themes in SCM. 3. Address the problems surrounding interpretations and the treatment of 'risk in management. 4. Highlight the need he a holistic approach to managing supply chain vulnerabilities. 5. Provide a structured framework for the identification and management of supply chain risk and resilience.

Reading:  Chapter 13 from Textbook [GSCM].

15 & 16

Laboratory 3:  Risk Management in Supply Chains

1. Develop analytical and management skills to analyze bullwhip and ripple effects in the supply chain;
2. Develop technical skills on batching, ordering rules and events;
3. Performing variation, comparison, and risk analysis experiments in AnyLogistix;
4. Understand major trade-offs in supply chain risk management

Reading: 1. Ivanov D., Sokolov B., Pavlov A. (2014) Optimal distribution (re)planning in a centralized multi-stage network under conditions of ripple effect and structure dynamics, European
Journal of Operational Research, 237(2), 758-770. 2. Chapter 4 [ALX]. CASE: Four-stage, multi-period supply chain planning with capacity disruptions, inventory, and transportation constraints (Case 5 Appendix 2 [ALX]).

17

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Systems

1. Understand what sustainability involves in the context of logistics and SCM. 2. Understand terms used in sustainability such as carbon footprints and food miles. 3. Illustrate best practice examples of attempts to reduce environmental footprints. 4. Understand the link that exists between growth in logistics and concomitant growth in the demand for transport. 5. Examine the different aspects of the two key dimensions used in logistics to reduce  environmental impacts, namely scale and efficiency.

Reading:  Chapter 14 from Textbook [GSCM].

18

Management Science Application

1. Appreciate that the nature and characteristics of logistics systems and supply chains can influence the interpretation of analysis outputs. 2. Summarize a range of management science applications in transport, logistics and SCM. 3. Describe optimization, simulation, decision making and forecasting management science applications in the context of transport, logistics and SCM.

Reading:  Chapter 17 from Textbook [GSCM]. CASE: Contamination in the Bulk Agri-Commodity Logistics Chain (from textbook [GSCM])

19

Laboratory 4:  Network Optimization and Advanced Simulation
with Inventory and Transportation Control

1. Understand network and transportation optimization;
2. Provide insight into the impact of inventory control and transportation policies on supply chain and logistics performance;
3. Develop the CPLEX (AnyLogistix) skills you need to create three-stage supply chain models, perform optimization and simulation experiments and measure their performance

Reading: 1. Ivanov D., Dolgui A., Ivanova M., Sokolov B. (2018) Simulation Vs. Optimization Approaches to Ripple Effect Modelling in the Supply Chain. In: Freitag M., Kotzab H., Pannek J. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. LDIC 2018, Bremen 20-22,  2. Chapter 2 [ALX].   CASE:  Simulation and network optimization in Germany (Case 3 Appendix 2 [ALX]).

20

Reverse Logistics

1. Explain the basics of reverse logistics and the reasons for employing reverse logistics. 2. Describe the various recovery options in reverse logistics, such as reuse, remanufacturing and recycling. 3. Identify the characteristics of the remanufacturing recovery option and highlight the difference between forward and remanufacturing recoverable logistics environments. 4. Explain the key success factors for the implementation of reverse logistics systems. 6. Identify and understand performance metrics relevant turbo recovery options of reverse logistics.

Reading:  Chapter 15 from Textbook [GSCM].