Global Supply Chain Management

Global Supply Chain Management

This course is part of Supply Chain & Operations Specialization

Instructor: Henrique Luiz Correa

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

26 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

3 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

26 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

3 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Understand and use the most important supply chain management concepts and frameworks for outsourcing
Identify and critically analyze the specific causes, effects, and remedies of demand volatility and uncertainty in different supply chains
Identify, critically analyze and remedy common pitfalls of supply and inventory management
Recognize the most relevant strategic issues and alternatives related to designing international direct and reverse logistics networks

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

Inventory Management System

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22 assignments

Taught in English

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There are 5 modules in this course

This course was developed for professionals from any area or industry to learn the basics of contemporary Global Supply Chain Management to improve its management and understanding of current affairs and future trends. There is no mandatory prerequisite, but having some business experience will help participants make the most of the proposal of video clips, cases, texts, analyses, and content. From a unique approach, it adopts a strategic approach to the management of global supply chains. Such an approach will be useful even if the participant is not actively involved in supply chain management decisions because the knowledge acquired and developed will make participants better interlocutors in broad discussions involving supply chains that they may take part in their organizations.

Global supply chains do not have a common boss or a common owner. This poses challenges to the governance of supply chains. We will discuss such challenges and we will also describe three fundamental concepts that are behind many of the techniques that we will discuss along the course: the prisoner’s dilemma, risk pooling and the bullwhip effect.

What's included

5 videos6 readings4 assignments

5 videos Total 92 minutes

Introduction: evolution and governance 5 minutes
The prisoner’s dilemma 6 minutes
The risk pooling effect 9 minutes
The bullwhip effect 7 minutes
Recording of Global Supply Chain Management Live Session on 22-01-20 20:04:25 [05:24] 65 minutes

6 readings Total 140 minutes

Course syllabus 10 minutes
Introduction of the instructor 10 minutes
Introduction to global supply chain management 60 minutes
The prisoner’s dilemma 20 minutes
The risk pooling effect 20 minutes
The bullwhip effect 20 minutes

4 assignments Total 110 minutes

Practice quiz: introduction to global supply chain 30 minutes
Practice quiz: The prisoner’s dilemma 30 minutes
Practice quiz: The risk pooling effect 20 minutes
Practice quiz: The bullwhip effect 30 minutes

In global supply chains, we face challenges (and also have opportunities) at all levels: operational, tactical and strategic. In this week we will focus on supply chain strategy and will discuss the following decision areas: “make or buy” and relationships with partners, segmentation issues and, management of flows of materials in supply chains.

What's included

7 videos2 readings5 assignments

7 videos Total 30 minutes

Core competencies and transaction costs 5 minutes
A simplified tool for the make or buy decision 4 minutes
Functional versus innovative products 4 minutes
Efficient versus responsive supply chains 5 minutes
Flow options in supply chains 6 minutes
Relationship with customers 4 minutes
Relationship with suppliers 3 minutes

2 readings Total 120 minutes

Reading for Lessons 5, 6, and 7 60 minutes
Managing Relationships in Global Supply Chains 60 minutes

5 assignments Total 180 minutes

Practice quiz: transaction costs 30 minutes
Practice quiz: supply chain strategies 30 minutes
Practice quiz: Flow options in supply chains 30 minutes
Practice quiz: Relationship with customers and suppliers 30 minutes
Modules 1 and 2 graded quiz 60 minutes

One of the overarching objectives of supply chain management is to continually be able to reconcile supply and demand. In week three we will discuss demand management, in the sense of articulating managerial options to influence and manage demand curves so that they display lower volatility and uncertainty levels.

What's included

5 videos1 reading4 assignments

5 videos Total 104 minutes

The importance of demand management 3 minutes
Causes and remedies of the bullwhip effect 7 minutes
Forecasting: quantitative approach 5 minutes
Forecasting: qualitative approach 4 minutes
Recording of Live Session - Global Supply Chain Management on 22-06-29 20:06:07 [25:35] 86 minutes

1 reading Total 60 minutes

Reading for Lessons 9 to 12 60 minutes

4 assignments Total 120 minutes

Practice quiz: Demand management 30 minutes
Practice quiz: Causes and remedies of the bullwhip effect 30 minutes
Practice quiz: quantitative approach to forecasting 30 minutes
Practice quiz: qualitative approach to forecasting 30 minutes

In week 4 we will discuss the other side of the equation that we started to discuss in week 3 – supply management. Here the main concepts of techniques of inventory management will be discussed in relation to both products (subjected to independent demand) and, components and raw materials (subjected to dependent demand).

What's included

9 videos1 reading5 assignments

9 videos Total 191 minutes

Why do stocks build up? 4 minutes
Types of stock 4 minutes
Material requirements planning (MRP) 4 minutes
Q Model 4 minutes
T Model 3 minutes
Safety stocks 4 minutes
Recording of Global Supply Chain Management Live Session on 22-02-10 20:03:05 [47:22] 47 minutes
Recording of Global Supply Chain Management Live Session on 22-02-10 20:50:46 [40:04] 40 minutes
Recording of Live Session - Global Supply Chain Management on 22-07-07 20:08:18 [18:58] 79 minutes

1 reading Total 70 minutes

Reading for Lessons 13 to 16 70 minutes

5 assignments Total 180 minutes

Practice quiz: inventory management principles 30 minutes
Practice quiz: Material requirements planning 30 minutes
Practice quiz: T model and Q model 30 minutes
Practice quiz: safety stocks 30 minutes
Modules 3 and 4 graded quiz 60 minutes

In this week we discuss two very relevant and contemporary topics in supply chain management: sustainability and the pursuit of the “triple bottom line” (profit, people and planet) and also technologies (software and hardware) that are associated with Industry 4.0 and their implication to supply chain management practice today and in the future.

What's included

7 videos3 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt

7 videos Total 106 minutes

The triple bottom line 3 minutes
Implications of the triple bottom line for supply chains 4 minutes
Closed loop - supply chains challenges and opportunities 4 minutes
Technologies of industry 4.0 7 minutes
Implications of the I4.0 hardware technologies for supply chains 8 minutes
Implications of the I4.0 software technologies for supply chains 6 minutes
Recording of Live Session - Global Supply Chain Management on 22-07-12 20:10:54 [15:12] 75 minutes

3 readings Total 140 minutes

Reading fo Lessons 17 and 18 60 minutes
Reading for Lessons 19 and 20 70 minutes
Staff-graded assignment instructions 10 minutes

4 assignments Total 120 minutes

Practice quiz: Sustainable supply chains 30 minutes
Practice quiz: closed loop supply chains 30 minutes
Lesson 19 practice quiz 30 minutes
Module 5 graded quiz 30 minutes

1 discussion prompt Total 30 minutes

Sustainable supply chain challenges 30 minutes

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Reviewed on Aug 25, 2024

Basic concepts are explained wonderfully with the help of real world examples. Course material is detailed and interesting case studies are mentioned which keep you engaged while reading.

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