This week’s topics
Global Supply Chain Network Design
- Quantitative facility location models
- Hub-and-spoke distribution architectures
- Tariffs, customs regimes, and bonded warehousing
- Balancing network responsiveness against operational costs
- Network Design of Global Supply Chain
- Week 8: Lecture 37: Supply Chain Network Optimization: Facility location using Centre of Gravity
- Network Optimization Models
What you will be able to do
- 3.3 Compare strategies used in establishing a global supply chain.
- 4.1 Discuss the role of network design in the management of a global supply chain.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: compare strategies used in establishing a global supply chain.
Study materials
Videos
- Localising the European Model - Supply Chains: The Supermarket (3/7) · YouTube · OpenLearn from The Open University · 10 min · for registered students
- SC Network Design - Steve Ellet of Chainalytics with Dr. Chris Caplice - SC2x_1 2018 · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 59 min · for registered students
- The New Competitive Edge: Analytics-Driven Supply Chain Design for Value Creation · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 45 min · for registered students
- Social-driven supply chain network design · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 61 min · for registered students
Further resources
- MIT OCW ESD.260J Logistics Systems (Fall 2006), Supply chain network design · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
- Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 9: Facility Location Strategy · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 377–398 · for registered students
- Introduction to Logistics, ch. 7: Global Logistics Planning and Management · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 131–136 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
