Topic Case Studies in Logistics Supply Chain Strategy [2] Supply Chain Planning [3] Manufacturing Systems &
facturing Systems & International Logistics [5]
Integrative Supply Chain Studies
Guest Executive Lecture
Media and Telecommunications
Supply Chain Overview
Student Presentations
Travel and Entertainment Industry
Customer Service
Service & Customer Interface
Service Quality
Design
Clockspeed Concepts
Supply Chain and Product Design
--process design
--industry strategy & structure
--logistics strategy & structure
Schuster - SC Course Grid (Rice Edit)
Logistics Systems [6] Supply Chain Context [7] Advanced Logistics &
and Supply Chain Supply Chain Design [4] Supply Chain Strategies
Management [1] [8]
1. BMG Entertainment - HC
1. Ropax Case
2. "Napster: Money Good,
2. Honfleur Case Napster Bad" & "Yahoo:
Business on the Internet"
3. Union Pacific Case (part 3. "Telecom Service
1) Providers"
4. Merloni Elettrodomestici 4. "Telecom Infrastructure
Case Providers"
5. "Optical Components
5. IFP, Indonesia Case
Supply"
6. General Electric 6. Wit Capital: Online
Transportation Systems Investment Bank - HC
Case
7. Ritz Carlton & Four
7. i2 Technologies Case
Seasons - HC
8. Alaska Airlines - HC,
8. Halloran Metals Case
British Airways - HC
9. Biz Travel, Rosenbluth -
9. Bose Case
HC
3 Classes - Student
5 Guest Executive Lectures
Presentations
1. Framework for Analyzing
the Quality of the Customer
Interface, Benihana of Tokyo
- HC
2. Lecture notes handed out
prior to class
1 & 2. Discussion of 1. Hewlett-Packard: 1. "Supply Chain Planning 1 & 2. "Logistics Network 1. Industry Structure and
Clockspeed Chapters Network Printer Design for and Design" - Discussion of Design - 2 Classes" Strategy - Cannondale Case
1. Xerox Distribution Universality Case production planning and Study
optimization applications at
System Case
Monsanto
3. BMW: 7 Series Project - 2. Recitation - Introduction
2. Distribution Systems, Inc. HC of SIP software
Case
4. Automobile Retailing in 2. Supply Chain Planning 1 & 2. "The Logistics
3. "Integrated Supply Chain the U.S. - HC and Design - General Network: Design and
Management Overview" Appliance Case Study Planning (2 classes)"
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 Topic Case Studies in Logistics Supply Chain Strategy [2] Supply Chain Planning [3] Manufacturing Systems & International Logistics [5] Logistics Systems [6] Supply Chain Context [7] Advanced Logistics &
and Supply Chain Supply Chain Design [4] Supply Chain Strategies
Management [1] [8]

5. "Mapping the Internet 3. Recitation - introduction Metalwork's Corporation

Value Chain (class of software for General Case
exercise)" Appliance Case
Manufacturing System Design
4. "Supply Chain Planning Analysis using
and Design - design and LogicTools Location
sourcing" Module
5. Recitation - guest
speaker on supply chain
optimization
6. "Supply Chain Planning 3 & 4. "Design for Logistics
and Design - production (2 classes)"
planning for engineered to
order products"

7. "Manufacturing System HP: DeskJet Printer Supply

Design - balance and Chain Case
layout; equipment selection
and task assignment"

8. Recitation - exercise
using software for Graves-
Redfield model
9. "Manufacturing System
Design - High volume
automated lines (buffers and
buffer sizing)"

10. "Manufacturing System

Design - cellular
manufacturing"
11. Manufacturing System
Design - Celestica Case
Study

eBusiness

1. Drugstore.com, CVS: The 1. "SCM and e Business" 1 & 2. "e-Business and

Web Strategy - HC Supply chain Management
SCM and eCommerce (2 classes)"
2. Wall-Mart Stores, Inc. - The Power of virtual
HC Integration: An Interview
with Dell Computer's
Pricing Strategies Michael Dell
A Stitch at a Time (Handout) Ford Mortor Company:
Supply Chain Strategy
3 & 4. "e-tailing and e-
fulfillment (2 classes)"
Leadership Online: Barnes
& Noble vs. Amazon.com
Case

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 Topic Case Studies in Logistics Supply Chain Strategy [2] Supply Chain Planning [3] Manufacturing Systems & International Logistics [5] Logistics Systems [6] Supply Chain Context [7] Advanced Logistics &
and Supply Chain Supply Chain Design [4] Supply Chain Strategies
Management [1] [8]

5 & 6. "Internet Based

Business-to-Business
Strategies ( 2 classes)"
FreeMarkets Online

7 & 8. "Pricing Strategies

(2 classes)"

Forecasting

1 & 2. "Demand
Demand Forecasting Forecasting I & II"

General Management

1. Union Pacific 2 - 1. "The Scope of Logistics" 1. Introductory Case - Sport

Logistics Change Obermeyer
Accounting/Finance Management
2. "Overview of Corporate 2. Organizational Behavior
Change Management Logistics Management" - NTAR Case
3 & 4. Accounting Basics -
Marketing Chemalite (2 classes)
5. Business Funding, Cost
Accounting and Managerial
Organizational Behavior Accounting - Destin Brass
The Scope of Logistics
6. Financial Statement
Analysis, Performance
Measurement - Colgate
Palmolive
7. Marketing - P&G
8. Marketing Cumberland
Metal
9. Marketing - Calyx &
Corolla

1. "Role of Logistics in
Global Strategy
Global Logistics Development"
2. "Global Supply Chain
Strategy"
3. "Specialized Aspects of
International Logistics"
4 & 5. "Modeling Global
Supply Chains"
6. Mattel, Inc.: Vendor
Operations in the Toy
Industry Case
7. Benetton Case

Inventory

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 Topic
DRP
Flexibility and Capacity Planning
Inventory Models/Systems
--multi-echelon inv. sys
--risk pooling
--lot sizing
--multi-period models
MRP
Supply Chain Coordination
Supply Chain and Cyclic Demand
Supply Chain and Safety Stock
Placement
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Case Studies in Logistics
and Supply Chain
Management [1]
1. FedEx: Matching Supply
and Demand - HC
1. General Electric - Make
to Order
2. "Pipeline Inventory
Systems"
3. "Quick Response in the
Apparel Industry"
Supply Chain Strategy [2] Supply Chain Planning [3] Manufacturing Systems & International Logistics [5]
Supply Chain Design [4]
1. "Inventory Models" -
basic inventory theory
2. Recitation - Inventory
models and introduction of
software for simulating
assemble to order systems
3. Inventory Systems - Steel
Works Case Study
4. Recitation - Inventory
models and introduction of
software for simulating
assemble to order systems
5."Inventory Systems" -
assemble to order systems
6. Inventory Systems -
Instron Case Study
7. "Multi-echelon Inventory
Systems - Debrief of the
Risk Pool Game"
8. Recitation - play risk
pool game
9. Supply Chain
Coordination - Health
Alliance Case
10. "Supply Chain and
Cyclic Demand" -
discussion of Teradyne
project
11. Recitation - modeling
software from Abyhankar -
Graves
12. "Supply chain and
safety stock placement"
13. Supply chain and safety
stock placement - HC Starck
Case Study
Logistics Systems [6] Supply Chain Context [7] Advanced Logistics &
Supply Chain Strategies
[8]
1. Flexibility and Capacity 1 & 2. "Distribution
Planning - Seagate Resource Planning - 2
Technologies Case Study on classes"
Operational Hedging
2. Recitation - exercise with 3. "Inventory Lot Sizing
FlexCap software Logic"
3. "Flexibility and Capacity 4. "Lot Sizing With Price
Planning - principles of Discounts"
capacity planning and
deployment of flexibility"
4. Flexibility and Capacity 5. "Safety Stock in
Planning - Xerox Laser Replenishment"
Printers Case Study
6. "Single Period Inventory 1 & 2. "Risk Pooling and
Models" Managing Inventory in the
Supply Chain (2 classes)"
7. "Inventory in the Finite
Planning Horizon"
8 & 9. "Materials
Requirements Planning - 2
classes"
10. "Quick Response
Inventory Models"
11. "Multi-Echelon Quick
Response"
12. "Supply Chain
Inventory"
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 Topic
Procurement
eProcurement
Supply Chain Outsourcing
--strategic alliances
Supply Chain Dynamics
The Beer Game
Transportation
Global Transportation Systems
Negotiation of Contract Rates
Transportation Management
Vehicle Routing and Scheduling
Books and Materials
Schuster - SC Course Grid (Rice Edit)
Case Studies in Logistics Supply Chain Strategy [2] Supply Chain Planning [3] Manufacturing Systems & International Logistics [5] Logistics Systems [6] Supply Chain Context [7] Advanced Logistics &
and Supply Chain Supply Chain Design [4] Supply Chain Strategies
Management [1] [8]
1. "Intercompany Operating 1. Nokia: Supply Line 1. "Supply Chain 1 & 2. "e-Procurement (2
Ties and Channel Management - HC Outsourcing Rationale" classes)
Coordination"
2. Laura Ashely and WSJ & FT Articles SAP and the Online
Federal Express Strategic Procurement Market
Alliance Case
3. "Logistics Strategy and 2. Cisco Acquisitions - HC
Structure"
3 & 4. "Strategic Alliances
and Outsourcing (2 classes)"
- Barilla SpA Case Study
1. Discussion of "Debrief of the Beer Game" 1. "The Beer Game" 1 & 2. "Supply Chain
Clockspeed Integration" (2 classes)
Recitation - Play the beer 2. "The Beer Game The Computerized Beer
game Analysis" Game
1. Frito Lay - The Backhaul 1. "Ocean Transportation 1 & 2. "Vehicle Routing and
Decision Case Systems" Scheduling - 2 classes"
2. "Transportation Systems" 3. "Transportation
Management"
3. "Air Transportation 4. "Negotiation of Contract
Systems" Rates"
[1] Cases studies provided by the professor
[2] "Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage"
[3] & [4] a. "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain"
b. "Factory Physics"
c. "Production and Operations Analysis"
[5] "Global Operations and Logistics"
[6] Course notes and problem sets provided by the professor
[7] Case studies provided by the professor
[8] "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain"
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