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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Integrated Supply Chain Strategy and Key Success Factors

SMP809 · Supply Chain and Operations Management — Week 2 of 16

CourseSMP809
Week2 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Integrated Supply Chain Strategy and Key Success Factors

  1. Horizontal and vertical process integration
  2. Supply chain maturity models
  3. End-to-end network visibility
  4. Critical success factors in collaborative planning
  5. End to End Strategy with Kathy Rodriguez of General Mills - SC3x Live
  6. Week 12: Lecture 57: Industry 4.0 - IIoT, Cloud Computing, Horizontal & Vertical System Integration

What you will be able to do

  • 1.3 Critically analyse the key success factors that aid in developing an integrated supply chain strategy in an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically analyse the key success factors that aid in developing an integrated supply chain strategy in an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

  • End to End Strategy with Kathy Rodriguez of General Mills - SC3x Live · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 59 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • MIT OCW 15.769 Operations Strategy (Fall 2010), Vertical integration and outsourcing · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · 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
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Strategic Operations and Supply Chain Alignment
  • Week 2: Integrated Supply Chain Strategy and Key Success Factors
  • Week 3: Strategic Supplier Relationship Management
  • Week 4: Digital Transformation in Supplier Relationship Systems
  • Week 5: Strategic Logistics and Global Network Design
  • Week 6: Strategic Procurement and Sourcing Procedures
  • Week 7: Quantitative Inventory Optimization and Valuation
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Lean Operations and Just-In-Time (JIT) Systems
  • Week 10: Supply Chain Strategy Formulation and Improvement Planning
  • Week 11: Supply Chain Strategy Evaluation and Performance Justificat…
  • Week 12: Applying Supply Chain and Operations Management 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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