This week’s topics
Supply Chain Models and Logistics Interfaces
- Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model
- Push versus pull and lean versus agile paradigms
- Logistics management scope versus holistic SCM
- Functional transport boundaries versus end-to-end integration
- Week 02: Lecture 08: Push Vs Pull
- Lean vs Agile - A Comparison of Agile and Lean Supply Chains
- Agile Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Differentiate between models of SCM.
- 1.3 Compare logistics management with SCM.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: differentiate between models of SCM.
Study materials
Videos
- Lean vs Agile - A Comparison of Agile and Lean Supply Chains · YouTube · Dr. Haywood · 4 min · for registered students
- Agile Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 8 min · for registered students
- Localising the European Model - Supply Chains: The Supermarket (3/7) · YouTube · OpenLearn from The Open University · 10 min · for registered students
- Supply Chain Models in Action - with MIT and Intel · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 57 min · for registered students
- Optimizing supply chains to meet stakeholder needs · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 33 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Introduction to Logistics, ch. 1: The Role of Logistics in Supply Chains · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 13–32 · for registered students
- Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 7: Supply Chain Management · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 285–330 · for registered students
- MIT OCW ESD.260J Logistics Systems (Fall 2006), Supply chain fundamentals and segmentation · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
