Goals:
This course focuses on concepts and realities that have to be considered as companies choose the appropriate approach to incorporate ecommerce into a company's supply chain.  The echannel should be viewed as one of a possible set of possible channels used by a firm that enables alternate structures of the supply chain and thus presents supply chain challenges that include dealing with the needs for flexibility, agility, channel management, using procurement auctions, managing shared capacity,  aligning incentives, managing information visibility, etc.  We will examine each of these concepts as well as their application to industries as diverse as automobiles, transportation, grocery, apparel and manufacturing.  This course will use lectures and examples, cases, guest speakers via videoconference, hands on games and group projects as pedagogical tools.

Features:

• Course Packet
• Class Notes that will be posted in catalyst
• Website links to get additional material

Job Titles that Involve Topics Studied:

• Supply Chain Manager
• Consultant
• Software Manager

Faculty

Suresh Chand: Scheduling and production planning for multiperiod production inventory problems with varying demand forecasts.

Maqbool Dada: Inventory systems, pricing models, service systems, and international operations management.

Vinayak Deshpande: Supply Chain Coordination, Service Parts Management, and Contingency Logistics Systems.

Joice Hu: Assistant Professor of Management.

Ananth Iyer: Analysis of the impact of promotions on logistics systems in the grocery industry and analysis of the impact of competitors on operational management models.

Shrikant Panwalkar: Visiting Professor

Leroy B. Schwarz: Supply-Chain Management, Manufacturing, E-Enterprise, and Operations Strategy.

James Ward: Inventory-distribution system design, planar location models, and interactive computing.

Svenja Sommer: Assistant Professor of Management.

Courses

MGMT 460: Operations Management

MGMT 462: Supply Chain Design, Planning and Control

MGMT 490: Logistics: Concepts and Models

MGMT 560: Manufacturing Planning & Control

MGMT 561: Logistics

MGMT 562: Project Management

MGMT 564: Management of Service Operations

MGMT 590D: Strategic Sourcing and Procurement

MGMT 590Y: E-Commerce & Supply Chain

MGMT 661: Management of Operations Systems

MGMT 663: Analysis and Improvement of Processes in Service
                   and Manufacturing Operations

MGMT 667: International Operations Management

MGMT 669: Operations: Practice & Models

MGMT 690A: Doctoral Topics in OM I

MGMT 690B: Workshop in OM

MGMT 690C: Doctoral Topics in OM II