BA5621 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
| Course Code: | 3125621 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Business Administration |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Supply management is perhaps the only business function that provides its executives insight into all other business functions. Careers in supply management offer the challenge of integrating all of the supply management activities into a smoothly operating system. Supply management typically spends approximately 60 percent of the firm’s revenue. Hence, good supply management greatly improves the firm’s productivity, profitability, and return on investment. Students concentrating in fields such as marketing, operations, finance, and engineering will benefit from understanding the supply management function and its interrelationships with their own functions. In this course we will view the supply chain from the point of view of a general supply chain manager. For this purpose, we will try to develop:
• An understanding of key drivers of supply chain performance and their interrelationships with other functions such as strategy, operations, design, and marketing.
• An understanding of the complexities of inter-firm and intra-firm coordination
• Analytical and problem-solving skills necessary to develop solutions for a variety of supply chain management and design problems
Course Content
This course introduces the concepts, models, and solution tools that are needed in the design, control, and operation of supply chains. The discussion ranges from basic topics of inventory management, logistics network design, distribution systems, strategic alliances, buyer-supplier relationships, the value of information in the supply chain, utilizing readings, cases, and technical exercises.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
Course Specific Skills:
- Use the supply chain management terminology appropriately
- Compare and contrast various firms’ supply chain management strategies
Discipline Specific Skills:
- Analyze decision problems in supply chain management
- Discuss recent literature that exemplify and empirically demonstrate course concepts
- Identify the interaction between supply chain management concepts and core business functions
Personal and Key Skills:
- Apply knowledge learned to case studies and actual organizations
- Develop discussion skills
- Do case study analyses
- Critical writing skills
- Enhance presentation skills
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | They attain advanced level of knowledge in the functional areas of business administration such as strategic management, marketing, accounting, finance, organization management, human resources, and operations management. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | They are capable of synthesizing the knowledge that they attained in the area of business administration with the knowledge base that they developed in their undergraduate specialisms. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | They are capable of identifying and analyzing legal, environmental and social factors, which influence the basic functional areas of the business administration. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | They understand and implement rational, systematic and scientific approaches effectively in problem solving and decision-making processes. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | They are capable of applying, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating the knowledge they developed in diverse fields efficiently. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | They are capable of transferring information by using efficient verbal and written communication techniques. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | They are capable of performing professional communication effectively also in English. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | They know methods of performing efficient teamwork. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | They are capable of understanding and synthesizing academic and scientific research in their areas and able to transform such research into useful knowledge. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | They have competence in all of the stages of scientific research and processes. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | They are knowledgeable in the areas of professional ethics and responsibility. | ✔ | |||
| 12 | They are capable of utilizing their knowledge and skills efficiently in global and multicultural contexts. | ✔ | |||
| 13 | They are knowledgeable in the issues of environment, social responsibility, social justice, quality and cultural values. | ✔ | |||
| 14 | They have a creative, innovative and critical perspective. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution