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Level 7 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Strategic Approaches to Supply Chain Management

LSC704 · Supply Chain and Operations Strategy — Week 4 of 16

CourseLSC704
Week4 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Strategic Approaches to Supply Chain Management

  1. Lean thinking and waste elimination
  2. Agile supply networks and rapid response
  3. Leagile hybrid strategies
  4. Postponement and mass customisation models
  5. Postponement Capabilities | SCMT 4653
  6. Hybrid Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653
  7. Agile Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653

What you will be able to do

  • 1.5 Critically review the application of different strategic approaches to supply chain and operations management in organisations.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically review the application of different strategic approaches to supply chain and operations management in organisations.

Study materials

Videos

  • Postponement Capabilities | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 14 min · for registered students
  • Hybrid Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 5 min · for registered students
  • Agile Supply Chain Strategies | SCMT 4653 · YouTube · Walton College Supply Chain Management · 8 min · for registered students
  • Day 2 | Session 3: Digital Supply Chain Management - The Future (Part 1) · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 35 min · for registered students
  • FMCG Supply Chain Strategy - Andrew Byer of Procter & Gamble with Alexis Bateman - SC3x_1 2018 · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 48 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • MIT OCW 16.660J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods (IAP 2012), Lean supply chain basics · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
  • Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 16: Just-In-Time and Lean Systems · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 687–714 · for registered students
  • MIT OCW 16.660J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods (IAP 2012), Lean thinking part I · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Week 2: Key Drivers of Supply Chain Dynamics
  • Week 3: Operations Strategy and Competitive Advantage
  • Week 4: Strategic Approaches to Supply Chain Management
  • Week 5: Structural and Infrastructural Operations Decisions
  • Week 6: Strategic Sourcing and Network Optimisation
  • Week 7: Principles and Frameworks of Performance Measurement
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Financial and Non-Financial Operational Metrics
  • Week 10: Designing and Deploying Key Performance Indicators
  • Week 11: Benchmarking and Strategic Efficiency Improvement
  • Week 12: Applying Supply Chain and Operations Strategy in practice: …
  • 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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