Advanced Supply Chains

Catalog description

Course deals with modeling of supply chains, concentrating on production and operations. Quantitative models will be developed and analyzed to study the benefits of information sharing, joint planning, and coordination among the various components of a supply chain. Strategic uses of information and various strategies of supply chains, like appropriate contacts, component commonality, and postponement will be covered. The material will also include service industry, and designing and managing globally dispersed entities. A major activity would be students working in teams, and identifying relevant problems and developing models to study them. Prerequisite: SSIE 515, and/or SSIE 520 or permission of instructor. Offered in the Fall semester.