Applying Supply Chain and Operations Management in practice: case studies

This week’s topics

Applying Supply Chain and Operations Management in practice: case studies

1. Case analysis
2. Linking theory to practice
3. Evaluating evidence
4. Week 11: Lecture 52: Supply Chain Digital Twin: Greenfield Analysis – A Case Study (I)
5. Week 11: Lecture 53: Supply Chain Digital Twin: Greenfield Analysis – A Case Study (II)

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Critically explain the significance of effective supply chain and operational management in achieving organisational objectives.
• 1.3 Critically analyse the key success factors that aid in developing an integrated supply chain strategy in an organisation.
• 2.1 Critically evaluate factors and strategies that drive organisations to maintain supplier relationships.
• 2.2 Assess the use of information technology to create strategies to develop effective supplier relationships.
• 3.1 Justify the importance and use of logistics in supply chain management in an organisation.
• 3.2 Evaluate the effectiveness of procurement strategies and procedures in an organisation.
• 3.3 Critically analyse factors that may improve logistics and procurement strategies in an organisation.
• 4.2 Critically evaluate the role of the principles of LIFO and FIFO in inventory control.
• 4.3 Evaluate the just in time systems of managing inventory.
• 5.1 Analyse factors involved in developing a strategy to improve an organisation's supply chain.
• 5.3 Justify the choice of a supply chain strategy according to its suitability, feasibility, acceptability and overall performance benefits in an organisation.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Case-study workshop: apply the unit’s concepts to a real or realistic case and evaluate the outcome.

Study materials

Videos

• Visual Analytics for Supply Chain Design · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 49 min · for registered students
• Leveraging AI in Supply Chain Management: From Data to Delivery · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 45 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Supply Chain Sustainability: A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, 2nd ed. (UN Global Compact & BSR, 2015) · PDF · Un, guidance; 76 pages · for registered students
• Decent work in global supply chains (ILO, International Labour Conference 105th session, Report IV, 2016) · PDF · Ilo, report; 80 pages · for registered students
• MIT OpenCourseWare 15.760B Introduction to Operations Management (Spring 2004) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students