SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Learning Objectives
After studying this tutorial, you will be able to:
- Understand the concept of the supply chain, its importance, and management.
- Describe the various types of supply chains.
- Define the value chain and describe its relationship to the supply chain.
- Trace the evolution of software that supports activities along the supply chain and describe MRP, MRP II, SCM, and ERP.
- Describe the need for and issues of integrating information.
- Describe ERP and understand the relationships between ERP and SCM software.
- Understand the relationships between e-commerce and SCM software.
- Understand the process and issues of global supply chain management.
- Describe current issues in SCM.
Content
T2.1 Essentials of the Supply and Value Chains
T2.2 Computerized Systems: MRP, MRP II, SCM, and Information Systems Integration
T2.3 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
T2.4 E-Commerce and Supply Chains
T2.5 Global Supply Chains
T2.6 Issues in Supply Chain Management
Key Terms
Summary
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Resources
Illustrative Real World Cases:
Case 1: HOW DELL IS MANAGING ITS SUPPLY CHAIN
CASE 2: Smoothing the Supply Chain of Davis and Warshow Using the Web
CASE 3: ERP helps improve productivity at northern DIGITAL inc. (ndigital.com)
References and Additional Bibliography
