BE260-6-AU-SO:
Supply Chain Management
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2023/24
Essex Business School
Southend Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 6
Inactive
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 15 December 2023
15
31 March 2021
Requisites for this module
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The Supply Chain Management course integrates topics from manufacturing operations, purchasing, transportation, delivery and logistics. This module coordinates and integrates all of these activities into a complex process. Also, it establishes the links between the partners in the chain, including vendors, carriers, and information systems providers.
This module covers the major issues in Global Supply Chain including: definition of a supply chain; role of inventory; capacity expansion; supply networks; bullwhip effect and information sharing; vendor-managed inventories and other distribution strategies; third-party logistics providers; managing product variety; information technology and supply chain management.
The module aims to provide students with the following benefits:
1. To develop an understanding of key drivers of supply chain performance and their inter-relationships with strategy and other functions of the company such as marketing and strategy.
2. To impart analytical and problem solving skills necessary to develop solutions for a variety of supply chain management and design problems and develop an understanding for use of strategic decision making in supply chain management.
3. To understand the complexity of inter-firm and intra-firm coordination in implementing programs such as e-collaboration, quick response, jointly managed inventories and strategic alliances.
4. To identify improvement opportunities that exist within supply networks in different industries and to quantify the improvements that various supply chain strategies offer.
5. To understand which barriers companies face during the implementation of new supply chain strategies.
This programme is designed to give students a thorough grounding in operations, logistics and supply chain management. On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Obtain a critical understanding of principles and practices of evaluating global operations and supply chain performance.
2. Critically evaluate possible evaluation challenges faced by private equity investors, analysts, entrepreneurs, consultants, and top management.
3. Obtain a critical understanding of the impact of operations and supply chains on everyday life, and develop a critical understanding of applying operations and supply chain management practices in the light of wider issues in global business.
4. Develop a critical understanding of operations and supply chain practices for evaluating and improving business performance.
No additional information available.
Lectures 10 hours
Seminars 10 hours
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Debashree De, email: d.de@essex.ac.uk.
Debashree De
d.de@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Oscar Rodriguez-Espindola
Aston University
Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Available via Moodle
Of 32 hours, 11 (34.4%) hours available to students:
21 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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