(Offered in Semester 2)

Supply chain management has become a key aspect of competitive strategy in coordinating with customers and suppliers to deliver value. The integration of operations, information flow and technology, is the next step in creating responsive and agile supply chains. This course will bring together the strategic, operational, and technological aspects of supply chain management, and look at how technological developments will impact manufacturing, distribution, and logistics.

(Offered in Semester 1)

The big data evolution provides an opportunity to manage significantly large amounts of information and act on them with analytics for improved diagnostics and prognostics. Understanding data science and data analytics would help managers to remain competitive and relevant in the rapidly changing landscape. Through industry case studies, this course will introduce the analytical approaches that can help participants understand and develop solutions to real world issues, from processing and exploring data to provide insights, developing a data product, and communicating a data story in a capstone project. Participants will also learn essential knowledge and skills for managing successful data analytics projects, such as analytical tools, scoping data analytics problems and best practices in the setup of a data analytics project. The course will provide extensive hands-on exercises on solving business problems using supervised and unsupervised learning.

(Offered in Semester 2)

This course will look at how supply chain management can be used effectively to improve financial performance. It will look at management trade-offs between long-term and short-term supply chain decisions. It will also look how companies improve their cash flow using better inventory management and supply chain financing. Participants will also form teams to play a supply chain simulation game. It requires teams to make annual supply chain management decisions that will impact revenue growth, cut costs, and/or manage risks of the company, taking into consideration management trade-offs and both short-term and long-term profitability, with an overall strategic plan.

(Offered in Semester 1)

Procurement and supply management within the supply chain has become strategic, with an emphasis on creating solutions, collaboration and resilience, Procurement has shifted from just cost cutting to being a revenue and profit driver. With the advent of IT, data, and new technologies, procurement processes and practices have continued to evolve. The course aims to provide participants with the knowledge of how strategic sourcing is critical for successful procurement outcomes, and understanding the elements that go into a situation analysis for strategic product purchases. Through hands-on exercises and case studies, participants will learn how to apply these concepts in a sourcing cycle.