Supply Chain Management: Theory to Practice

Catalog description

The course includes the fundamentals of the analytical tools available to reduce costs and improve service levels in logistics systems. Strategic, tactical, and operational level decisions regarding logistics system design, inventory management, warehouse design and operations, facility location, and freight transport planning are studied and modeled using operations research tools. The essential theory on set covering, traveling salesperson, and vehicle routing problems is studied to provide a sound basis for advanced modeling. Mathematical programming and heuristic algorithms for solving complex logistics decision problems are introduced with relevant computer applications. This course is cross listed with MGMT 492 .