Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management is a business model necessary for an organization's success and everyone in the organization needs to be involved. This course introduces the concepts of logistics and supply chain management. It discusses the complexity created by ever increasing customer requirements and expectations, globalization, the pressure on cost, and the availability and access to resources. It explains how successful supply chain management requires cross-functional integration within the firm and across the network of firms that comprise the supply chain. It focuses on the improvements in performance that result from better management of key relationships.