Supply chain planning

Lectures: 1.5 hours / session, 2 sessions / week for 6 weeks

Recitations: 1.5 hours / session, 1 session / week for 6 weeks

Students should have completed one of the following courses:

ESD.260J/ 1.260J/15.770J Logistics Systems

15.760 Introduction to Operations Management

15.761 Operations Management

To develop modeling skills and to provide new concepts and problem-solving tools applicable to the design and planning of supply chains.

15.762J Supply Chain Planning focuses on effective supply chain strategies for companies that operate globally, with an emphasis on how to plan and integrate supply chain components into a coordinated system. Students are exposed to concepts and models important in supply chain planning with emphasis on key tradeoffs and phenomena. The course introduces and utilizes key tactics such as risk pooling and inventory placement, integrated planning and collaboration, and information sharing. Lectures, computer exercises, and case discussions introduce various models and methods for supply chain analysis and optimization.

Course readings will be assigned from the text:

Simchi-Levi, David, Philip Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain. McGraw Hill/Irwin, 2007. ISBN: 9780073341521.

Additional readings may include journal papers and case studies. The following books may also be useful references or complements, and optional readings will be recommended from these texts:

Simchi-Levi, David. Operations Rules. MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780262014748.

Hopp, Wallace, and Mark Spearman. Factory Physics. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2000. ISBN: 9780256247954.

Hopp, Wallace. Supply Chain Science. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007. ISBN: 9780073403328.

Nahmias, Steven. Production and Operations Analysis. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2000. ISBN: 9780072417418.

Chopra, Sunil, and Peter Meindl. Supply Chain Management. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN: 9780131730427.

Shapiro, Jeremy F. Modeling the Supply Chain. Southwestern College Pub, 2000. ISBN: 9780534373634.

Silver, Edward A., David F. Pyke, and Rein Peterson. Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling. 3rd ed. Wiley, 1998. ISBN: 9780471119470.

Reebok case write- up due

Inventory problem set due

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