Supply Chain Operation

Module #2: Strategy, Sustainability, and Productivity

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This module is dedicated to strategy, sustainability, and productivity.  As you proceed through the module, if you have any questions about this module please post a question on our course discussion board or contact me directly.

At the conclusion of this module, you should be able to:

· Explain what a sustainable business strategy is and how it relates to operations and supply chain management

· Discuss operations and supply chain strategy

· Examine strategies' implications to business risk

· Evaluate productivity in operations and supply chain management

· Calculate the percentage of increase or decrease between two differences

These outcomes correspond to the following course objective as stated in your syllabus:

· Design and examine operations and supply chain strategy

· Analyze and recommend decisions for supply chain problems using Microsoft skills

· Write to suit the task and situation while controlling style, tone, and structure to create professional documents

Module #3: Forecasting

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This module is dedicated to forecasting.  As you proceed through the module, if you have any questions about this module please post a question on our course discussion board or contact me directly.

At the conclusion of this module, you should be able to:

· Understand how forecasting is essential to supply chain operations

· Evaluate demand using quantitative forecasting techniques (moving averages)

· Evaluate forecast accuracy measurements

· Develop conclusions and a forecasting recommendation for a case study issue

· Compute labor productivity impact due to demand shock

· Develop a professional report include assessment and recommendation

· Develop a professional executive summary

These outcomes correspond to the following course objective as stated in your syllabus:

· Apply techniques for analyzing, managing, and improving supply chain processes

· Analyze and recommend decisions for supply chain problems using Microsoft skills

· Write to suit the task and situation while controlling style, tone, and structure to create professional documents

Module #4 -Process Design, Analysis & Break-Even Analysis

 

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This module is dedicated to forecasting.  As you proceed through the module, if you have any questions about this module please post a question on our course discussion board or contact me directly.

At the conclusion of this module, you should be able to:

· Define a typical business process and how it can be analyzed

· Compare and contrast different types of processes

· Create a swim-lane process diagram for a given business process

· Compute break-even points for 5 purchasing options and identify the lowest option

These outcomes correspond to the following course objective as stated in your syllabus:

· Apply techniques for analyzing, managing, and improving supply chain processes

· Apply conceptual decision support to supply chain related decision problems using Microsoft skills

Module #5 - Six Sigma Quality

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This module is dedicated to Six Sigma Quality.  As you proceed through the module, if you have any questions about this module please post a question on our course discussion board or contact me directly.

At the conclusion of this module, you should be able to:

· Explain the scope of total quality management in a firm

· Understand the Six Sigma approach to improving quality and productivity

· Apply tools of quality to a case problem

These outcomes correspond to the following course objective as stated in your syllabus:

· Apply techniques for analyzing, managing, and improving supply chain processes

· Analyze and recommend decisions for supply chain problems

· Write to suit the task and situation while controlling style, tone, and structure to create professional documents

Module #6 - Inventory Management

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This module is dedicated to Inventory Management and Lean.  As you proceed through the module, if you have any questions about this module please post a question on our course discussion board or contact me directly.

At the conclusion of this module, you should be able to:

· Describe how inventory is used and understand costs

· Analyze days on-hand inventory

· Analyze inventory using the Pareto principle

These outcomes correspond to the following course objective as stated in your syllabus:

· Apply techniques for analyzing, managing, and improving supply chain processes

· Analyze and recommend decisions for supply chain problems

Module #7 - Lean

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This module is dedicated to Lean and your capstone writing assignment.  As you proceed through the module, if you have any questions about this module please post a question on our course discussion board or contact me directly.

At the conclusion of this module, you should be able to:

· Analyze and identify waste in a process

· Apply the lean tools to an example supply chain problem

These outcomes correspond to the following course objective as stated in your syllabus:

· Apply techniques for analyzing, managing, and improving supply chain processes

· Analyze and recommend decisions for supply chain problems

· Write to suit the task and situation while controlling style, tone, and structure to create professional documents