(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)

This course introduces analytical approaches that empower managers to make data-driven decisions. Through industry case studies, participants will explore how to turn data into business insights.

The course emphasizes the analytical process of discovery, learning, and deployment, equipping participants with the skills to apply data analytics to real-world problems.

Participants will gain hands-on experience in exploring data patterns, creating visualization dashboards, developing machine learning models, and effectively communicating data stories.

Extensive practical exercises will focus on data visualization and analytics techniques, and data communication strategies.​

(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)

The role of procurement and supply management within the wider supply chain is the most strategic, particularly in terms of insight into market development, market creation and an understanding of future risks and challenges that face an organisation. With an increased emphasis on technology, sustainability, collaboration, partnerships, resilience, and outsourcing; blended with a focus on relationship management, networking capabilities and broader commercial acumen, it is time to examine the role of procurement and supply as a profession in the future.

The intent of this course is to provide students with the information and knowledge to learn how strategic sourcing is critical to successful procurement outcomes, understanding the elements that go into a situation analysis for strategic product purchases. Case studies, supplemented with current best practices are used to illustrate the issues discussed in lectures.

This course is conducted with an intensive immersion in an emerging economy to learn about the developments, adoption & implementation of technologies and digital transformation in practice.

Through company visits, seminars, networking sessions and various assessments, students will learn about emerging economies, the opportunities available, and foreign workplace knowledge and skills. They will acquire the first-hand experience of learning about the unique characteristics of the different types of firms that operate there.

They will also appreciate the economic interconnectivity between Singapore and that of regional economies.