This week’s topics
Key Drivers of Supply Chain Dynamics
- Logistical drivers including facilities, inventory, and transportation
- Cross-functional drivers including information, sourcing, and pricing
- Bullwhip effect mitigation
- Supply chain responsiveness versus efficiency trade-offs
- Week 01: Lecture 03: Supply Chain Drivers
- Supply Chain Drivers
- Lec 55 - Supply Chain Management & its Drivers
What you will be able to do
- 1.2 Critically discuss the key drivers of effective supply chain management.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically discuss the key drivers of effective supply chain management.
Study materials
Videos
- Applications of Simulation in Supply Chain Management · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 47 min · for registered students
- Responsive Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 8 min · for registered students
- Efficient Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 8 min · for registered students
- Agile Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 8 min · for registered students
- Hybrid Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 5 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 7: Supply Chain Management · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 285–330 · for registered students
- MIT OpenCourseWare 15.762J Supply Chain Planning (Spring 2011) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
- MIT OCW 15.769 Operations Strategy (Fall 2010), Frameworks for strategy and the decision category approach · 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.
