Milwaukee School of Engineering

Rader School of Business

Syllabus
MG-744 - Supply Chain Management
Fall 2014 Course description
This course examines the
modern concept of optimizing the
entire supply chain, from raw
material to customer. It considers
each element going into supply
chain management, including
forecasting and planning,
inventory, transportation,
facilities, and product availability.
Throughout, it identifies
pressures to sub-optimize the
supply chain, as each player
attempts to optimize its own
segment of the supply chain.
Prerequisites
MG-645; MG-633
Required materials
Designing and Managing the
Supply Chain, 3rd Edition, by
David Simchi-Levi, Philip
Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi,
McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2008.
Course objectives
The student will obtain an
understanding of the issues in
the current interest in optimizing
entire supply chains. Upon
successful completion of this
course, for each of the course
topics listed below, the student
will:
1. Have an understanding of
supply chains and the issues
involved.
2. Be able to analyze a supply
chain and suggest ways it could
be improve.
3. Have an understanding of the
major tools used to analyze and
improve supply chains.

Course topics

( these topics are subject to

change based on the interests of
the class)
Introduction
Inventory management
Network planning
Supply contracts
The value of information
Supply Chain integration
Distribution Strategies
Strategic alliances
Procurement and outsourcing
Global logistics and risk
management
Improving the supply chain

Teacher: Kathleen Miezio PhD

Office :07 Rosenberg Hall
Email: miezio@msoe.edu; cell phone: 414-520-4192
Office hours: any time by appointment
Class meetings:
Plexus: Mondays odd weeks
MSOE: Wednesdays odd weeks
Deliverables: All assignments, rubrics and cases will be posted on Blackboard
:
https://msoe.blackboard.com
Grading:
My Supply Chain paper: 3 parts

paper #1 10%

Paper #2 10%
Paper #3 20%
Participation and beer game with partner
5 Case study papers (done in pairs) Each

10%
10%

I will let you choose partners to work on the case study, but you must have a
different partner for each case study if possible ---Plexus is an exception
Parity table:
Contact/engagement:

2.5 hours class

2.5 hours discussion of cases or beer game with partner (I

am trying to avoid discussions on Blackboard)
Preparation/homework 7 hours; reading, viewing on line Power Points,
prepare assignments, Your Supply Chain analysis and case analysis
Calendar
Week

Topics

Reading
Be prepared to
discuss readings
at meetings
Chapter 1 and
Medtech surgical
case Page 18,
Chapter 2 and
Sport Obermeyer
Case, Lego Case
Chapter 3

1 face 9/8

Introduction

2 virtual
9/15

Inventory management
and risk

3 face 9/22

Network Planning

4 virtual
9/29

Supply contracts

5 face 10/6

The value of Information

6 virtual
10/13

Supply chain Integration

7 face
10/20

Distribution strategies

Chapter 6 and
case to be
assigned
Chapter 7

8 virtual

Procurement and

Chapter 9 and

Chapter 4. Sport
Obermeyer
questions
Chapter 5

Assignments
due

My supply
Chain paper 1,
Medtech Case
questions

Sport
Obermyer
questions due

Case questions
and My Supply
Chain paper 2
due, and case

10/27

outsourcing strategies

9 face 11/3
10 virtual
11/10

Global Logistics
Product and supply chain
design

11 11/17
Face

Presentations on My
Supply Chain
Discussion of last case

Zara case study

questions
Chapter 10
Chapter 11 Last
case to be
assigned

Zara Case due

My Supply
Chain final
paper (put all 3
together),
Presentation
and last joint
case
Please note: I will assign some of the cases later in the quarter when I find
out what interests the class. Also, the schedule may change when I find out
what interests the class has in Supply Chain Management.