Titular Professors
Professors
1. Develop a sound understanding of the importance of a strong coordination among the functions in an organization and overall participants within the SCh.
2. Understand where different type of firms fit within the SCh.
3. Identify the key principles that drive any SCh whether in a local or international context.
4. Become familiar with the fundamentals of doing international trading.
5. Develop students' abilities to apply systematically and creatively, their knowledge in solving complex solutions, as well as promoting their managerial skills, communication, and personal development.
6. Understand the fundamental role played by ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in Innovation SCh Logistics and development projects.
The objective of this course is to be able to identify opportunities to improve the SCh within various types of companies.
Provide students a complete level of knowledge about the areas of SCM: Buying, Productions and Storage, Distribution Systems and Transportation. These, within a national and international scope.
Provide a strategic and integrated view of the various areas that make up the Company Management, to facilitate the development of their future career towards a leadership role in the field of Operations and SCh Management (SCM).
Topics to review:
1. Introduction to Supply Chain
a) Supply Chain & SCh Management Definition
b) The 5 major SCh Drivers o External Participants in the SCh
c) Aligning the SCh with Business Strategy
- Understand the Market your company serve
- Define Core Competencies
- Develop Needed SCh capabilities
d) Responsiveness vs. Efficiency
e) Functions (Internal Participants) within the SCh and its conflicting needs
f) 4 Categories of SCh
2. Planning & Inventory Management
a) Importance of S&OP
b) Key concepts behind demand forecasting
c) Inventory Management and Safety Stock
d) What is a BOM, the importance of it, how it is shaped, what is it used for.
3. Sourcing & Purchases Negotiations
a) Procurement steps
- Business needs understanding
- Supplier or Vendor Selection
- Allocating business
b) Negotiation strategies
c) Contract Development
d) Consumption & Contract Management
e) Credit & collection
f) Total Cost of Purchase
4. Logistics & International Supply Chain
a) Delivery Schedules
b) Distribution Channels
c) Physical Distribution
d) Transportation modes / Logistics Optimization
5. International Trade and FER
a) Global organizations facilitating trade
b) Import Duties, HS, Taric
c) Players on imports and exports
d) Incoterms
e) Foreign Exchanges
6. IT systems affecting Supply chain
a) Origins and application of Barcoding and RFID
b) Business Intelligence
c) Simulation Modeling
d) Business process Management
The course is oriented towards individual and group learning. We will use:
- Conduct Role Plays- theory needs to be carefully read and then the role-play will take place. A final wrap will be performed to summarize and debate the conclusions.
- Review of simulations to further on analyze them and drive conclusions.
- Conceptual class discussions. The process of discussion will be facilitated and will remark the key concepts and lessons. However, each student is responsible for formulating his/her own synthesis building upon the readings, class attendance, class participation and class discussion.
- Assignments to work at home or in class individually or as teamwork.
- Challenges- What if Analysis will be conducted under different scenarios.
- Review the textbook topics in detail during class and as home readings.
Continuous Assessment 40%
Participation and attitude 10%
Midterm exam 20%
Final examination** 30% (highly important)
** Final exam - NEEDS A MINIMUM OF 4 TO PASS THE COURSE
Plagiarism and AI tools: It is a violation of school policy for students to represent work they did not do as their own, or work generated by an AI system unless authorized by the professor.
Any submission with plagiarism of 30% or more indicated in URKUND will have a zero.
During the course, we may use AI tools but you will be informed as to when and how you should use these. Any use of AI tools outside these parameters will be considered plagiarism.
Please reach out to the professor with any questions you have about the use of AI tools before submitting any assignment that has been created using these AI tools.
Plagiarism regulation: https://www.salleurl.edu/en/copies-regulation
Attendance: Students are allowed to be absent for up to 25% of class sessions without penalty Absences between 25 to 40% will result in the loss of 1 point and the student will receive a 0 for attendance/participation. Note: After 40% absences constitute a serious situation and the student is in danger of failing the course. For students repeating the course a 60% of attendance is mandatory
Only in exceptional cases when a student has authorized absence from their tutor that is communicated to the professor can a student join a class online - such an agreement must be confirmed in advance of the class session. If you arrive 5 minutes late, you MIGHT be able to enter the class, you´ll be marked as absent.
Participation: It will be based on your contribution to the class by offering ideas, asking question, helping others during class assignments, be sensitive for the learning needs of others and works toward group goals. You will be assessed on the Quality of your comments and your ability to connect with and build upon comments made by your colleagues. Points will also be taken off in the event of miss-use of phones, tablets or laptops, continuous side conversations or chatting, unsolicited interruptions, etc.
There is a policy of no phones. All phones must be turned off an away in bags and out of sight, unless the professor allows it. If there is a continuous miss-used of phone, you´ll be requested to leave class and your CA grade will be a zero.
Mobile phone policy: You cannot use your mobile phone during the class time. Mobile phones are off limits during class: no calls, no text messaging, no WhatsApp etc. All phones must be turned off and away in bags and out of sight. Failure to do this will result in the professor asking you to leave the room after an initial warning. This will also result in your name being reported to the direction of business degrees for disciplinary action.
Re-take: The minimum to have the option of a re-take final exam is to have an average of 4 /10 in Continuous Assessment. The maximum course grade is a 7. The weight for the final re-take grade will be as follows:
- Continuous Assessment 40%
- Re-take exam 60%
Supply Chain Management by Michael H. Hugos. 3 rd edition
- Defining Supply Chain Management- Journal of Business Logistics Vol. 22 No.2 p 18.
- Supply Chain Management - By: Chopra Sunil & Peter Meindl. 4 th edition
- The Goal - By Eliyahu Goldratt
- Operations Management b6 W.J. Stevenson, 3 rd edition, McGraw Hill
- Linked-IN: Supply Chain Management Group
- Negotiations- http://www.negotiations.com/definition/
- SCM courses https://www.coursera.org/course/supplychain
- SCM basics https://scm.ncsu.edu/scm-articles/scm-basics
- Fred Sollish & John Semanik, 2011, Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices, Wiley
- Mandyam Srinivasan et al., 2014, Global Supply Chain: Evaluating Regions on an EPIC Framework, McGraw-Hill Education
- SAP - http://es.slideshare.net/vins049/basics-of-sap-for-noobs-dummies