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Level 6 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Capacity Decisions for Competitive Advantage

LSC606 · Supply Chain Planning and Control — Week 5 of 16

CourseLSC606
Week5 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Capacity Decisions for Competitive Advantage

  1. Economies and diseconomies of scale
  2. Strategic outsourcing versus in-house capacity
  3. Agile scaling in volatile markets
  4. Capital investment appraisal for capacity expansion

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Analyse the role of capacity management.
  • 2.3 Analyse capacity decision for competitive advantage in supply chain planning and control in business management

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the role of capacity management.

Study materials

Videos

  • Lecture 5 Strategic Capacity Planning for Products and Services · YouTube · Eddy Witzel · 26 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 8: Capacity Planning & Management · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 331–376 · for registered students
  • MIT OCW 15.769 Operations Strategy (Fall 2010), Capacity strategy · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
  • Procurement in the Supply Chain World, ch.: Insourcing, Outsourcing, Making, or Buying · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 98–112 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Supply Chain Planning and Control
  • Week 2: Core Elements of Planning and Control Systems
  • Week 3: System Capacity Determination
  • Week 4: Strategic Capacity Management
  • Week 5: Capacity Decisions for Competitive Advantage
  • Week 6: Inventory Functions and Classifications
  • Week 7: Inventory Management Approaches
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Lean and Pull-Based Inventory Control
  • Week 10: Master Production Schedule Techniques
  • Week 11: Bills of Materials and System Integration
  • Week 12: Applying Supply Chain Planning and Control in practice: cas…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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