SUPPLY CHAIN

MANAGEMENT

1. INTRODUCTION
 OVERVIEW
•  Course Coordinator
•  Course Aims
•  Course Organisation:
•  10 weeks:
Thursday [ 9-10]: Problem Sessions,
Thursday [10-12]: Lectures
•  Small group work, readings
•  Assessment:
•  100% exam [2 hours – 3/4 questions]
•  Sources
•  Communications 2
 OVERVIEW
•  Course Coordinator

Ashley D. Lloyd BSc(Hons) PhD MBA CPhys CSci

ashley@edinburgh.ac.uk

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 Final Exam
3 / 4 - Questions

•  More qualitative questions rather than

quantitative
•  There will be no equation to be solved
•  This is to test your understanding of main
concepts which are going to be taught in
this class

•  So, attend at as many session as possible

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TEXTS:
State of the Art:
Russell, R.S. & Taylor III, B.W. (2000, 2017) Operations and
Supply Chain Management, John Wiley & Sons
Slack, N., Brandon-Jones, A. Johnston, R. (2013,2016)
Operations Management, Pearson.
Basic Principles:
FREDENDALL, L. D. & HILL, E. 2000. Basics of Supply Chain
Management, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press LLC.
ORLICKY, J. A. 1975. Material requirements planning: the
new way of life in production and inventory management.
New York, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
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E-mail: ashley@edinburgh.ac.uk

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Course Outline

•  Introduction
•  Operations – as process
•  Global value chain
•  Strategic perspective
•  Planning perspective
•  MRP, MRPII, ERP – the tools
•  Demand management - forecasting
•  Aggregate planning (SOP / RCCP)
•  Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
•  Capacity planning (CP)
•  Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
•  Inventory Management
•  Supply Chain Management (SCM)
•  JIT / lean

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 COURSE AIMS
The objectives of this course are to examine
practices related to materials and their
management within an engineering –
manufacturing context.
It examines:
•  the process nature of operations,
•  the strategic importance of operations and
•  the issues influencing the planning and handling of
materials.

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 INTRODUCTION

Module 1: What is Supply Chain Management? (ASU-WPC-SCM)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi1QBxVjZAw

W. P. Carey School of Business

http://video.ft.com/v/757678199001/Importance-of-the-supply-chain
 RISK
March 11th 2011
Tsunami in Japan
April 2011 Destructive
storms in US
Nov. 2011 Floods in
Thailand

PRACTICES
Single supplier
Source:
THE WORLD 2012 Shorter supply chains à
Tsunami, floods and storms move JIT / lower stock
logistics up the agenda, holding
Financial Times Long distances à lead-
January 25th 2012 time / shipping cost
(low)

Forecast vs. On-

demand production

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/754e8758-407a-11e1-9bce-00144feab49a.html#axzz3Ombn9ngD