Global Supply Chain Management

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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.

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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

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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 videosTotal 92 minutes

Introduction: evolution and governance5 minutes
The prisoner’s dilemma6 minutes
The risk pooling effect9 minutes
The bullwhip effect7 minutes
Recording of Global Supply Chain Management Live Session on 22-01-20 20:04:25 [05:24]65 minutes

6 readingsTotal 140 minutes

Course syllabus10 minutes
Introduction of the instructor10 minutes
Introduction to global supply chain management60 minutes
The prisoner’s dilemma20 minutes
The risk pooling effect20 minutes
The bullwhip effect20 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 110 minutes

Practice quiz: introduction to global supply chain30 minutes
Practice quiz: The prisoner’s dilemma30 minutes
Practice quiz: The risk pooling effect20 minutes
Practice quiz: The bullwhip effect30 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 videosTotal 30 minutes

Core competencies and transaction costs5 minutes
A simplified tool for the make or buy decision4 minutes
Functional versus innovative products4 minutes
Efficient versus responsive supply chains5 minutes
Flow options in supply chains6 minutes
Relationship with customers4 minutes
Relationship with suppliers3 minutes

2 readingsTotal 120 minutes

Reading for Lessons 5, 6, and 760 minutes
Managing Relationships in Global Supply Chains60 minutes

5 assignmentsTotal 180 minutes

Practice quiz: transaction costs30 minutes
Practice quiz: supply chain strategies30 minutes
Practice quiz: Flow options in supply chains30 minutes
Practice quiz: Relationship with customers and suppliers30 minutes
Modules 1 and 2 graded quiz60 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 videosTotal 104 minutes

The importance of demand management3 minutes
Causes and remedies of the bullwhip effect7 minutes
Forecasting: quantitative approach5 minutes
Forecasting: qualitative approach4 minutes
Recording of Live Session - Global Supply Chain Management on 22-06-29 20:06:07 [25:35]86 minutes

1 readingTotal 60 minutes

Reading for Lessons 9 to 1260 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 120 minutes

Practice quiz: Demand management30 minutes
Practice quiz: Causes and remedies of the bullwhip effect30 minutes
Practice quiz: quantitative approach to forecasting30 minutes
Practice quiz: qualitative approach to forecasting30 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 videosTotal 191 minutes

Why do stocks build up?4 minutes
Types of stock4 minutes
Material requirements planning (MRP)4 minutes
Q Model4 minutes
T Model3 minutes
Safety stocks4 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 readingTotal 70 minutes

Reading for Lessons 13 to 1670 minutes

5 assignmentsTotal 180 minutes

Practice quiz: inventory management principles30 minutes
Practice quiz: Material requirements planning30 minutes
Practice quiz: T model and Q model30 minutes
Practice quiz: safety stocks30 minutes
Modules 3 and 4 graded quiz60 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 videosTotal 106 minutes

The triple bottom line3 minutes
Implications of the triple bottom line for supply chains4 minutes
Closed loop - supply chains challenges and opportunities4 minutes
Technologies of industry 4.07 minutes
Implications of the I4.0 hardware technologies for supply chains8 minutes
Implications of the I4.0 software technologies for supply chains6 minutes
Recording of Live Session - Global Supply Chain Management on 22-07-12 20:10:54 [15:12]75 minutes

3 readingsTotal 140 minutes

Reading fo Lessons 17 and 1860 minutes
Reading for Lessons 19 and 2070 minutes
Staff-graded assignment instructions10 minutes

4 assignmentsTotal 120 minutes

Practice quiz: Sustainable supply chains30 minutes
Practice quiz: closed loop supply chains30 minutes
Lesson 19 practice quiz30 minutes
Module 5 graded quiz30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 30 minutes

Sustainable supply chain challenges30 minutes

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