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Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

Supplier relationships: alliances, networks and supplier development

SL706 · Supply Chain and Operations Management — Week 3 of 16

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Week3 of 16
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This week’s topics

Supplier relationships: alliances, networks and supplier development

  1. Alliances, e.g. strategic, adversarial, collaborative, developmental
  2. Business relationship, e.g. supplier, business to business, business to consumer
  3. Networks, e.g. personal, business, organisational; association, e.g. supplier association
  4. Supplier development; intermediation and disintermediation

What you will be able to do

  • 2.1 Critically evaluate factors and strategies that drive organisations to maintain supplier relationships.

Study materials

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Course plan
  • Week 1: Operations management, supply chains and other business fun…
  • Week 2: Key success factors for an integrated supply chain strategy
  • Week 3: Supplier relationships: alliances, networks and supplier de…
  • Week 4: Factors and strategies that drive operations management: th…
  • Week 5: Information technology and supplier relations systems
  • Week 6: The importance and use of logistics in supply chain managem…
  • Week 7: Procurement strategies and procedures
  • Week 8: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Improving logistics and procurement strategies
  • Week 10: Procurement control and economic order quantity
  • Week 11: Inventory control: the principles of FIFO, LIFO and AVCO
  • Week 12: Just in time systems of managing inventory
  • Week 13: Factors in developing a strategy to improve the supply chain
  • Week 14: Planning and justifying supply chain improvement strategies
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Week 16: Final evaluation and project assessment
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