In this section you can find the link to the recorded classes.

Game Level 1

This session will introduce you to the structure of the module. You will explore the time commitments you will need to make, and how the assessments will be made. We will talk about the historic background of SCM and the industrial revolution impact and perspective. We will also learn about the General System Theory and its importance to understand the SCM.

On this session you will learn about the elements and essence of the production systems. We will understand elements of input, output, transformation and feedback that will base the understanding of the next concepts during the semester.

In this week we will conduct the correlation of operations management and Supply Chain Management. It will consist on understanding how every element on the production and operation plan is related to the global view of the business and how can the Supply Chain Management approach help managers to be more efficient.

This week we will talk about the Operation Management considering the location and capacity of your company. We will talk about Models for Facility Location and Capacity Allocation and decision. To understand the maximum and minimum that you can take from your operation system and to be able to align those elements with the members of the Supply Chain. First you have to understand your company and from there we can start with Supply Chain Management itself.

In this week we will learn about the ground theory related to SCM: the Supply Chain Philosophy, Supply Chain Integration and Supply Chain Orientation. This will consist on a behavioral approach that must be aligned with companies’s strategies.

This week we will talk about the Supply Chain Management concerned to the location and the capacity of your company. We will talk about Models for Facility Location and Capacity Allocation and decision. It is important to understand the maximum and minimum that you can take from your operation system and to be able to align those elements with the members of the Supply Chain. First you have to understand your company and from there we can start with Supply Chain Management itself.

This session will build on you critical thinking skills about a very important SCM skill also used in Operation Management: the Supply Chain Demand Forecasting. Understanding how much you need to produce will be a start point for you purchases and production planning. But there is a network of companies that will depend and determine your forecasts.

This week you will get involved with another important piece of SCM. the Supply Chain Inventory Management. These concepts will help you to understand the best time and quantity to buy and how to calculate the security stock. We will discuss about the costs related to bad and good decisions. Cases of study will be presented and the Enterprise Project will be updated on this matter.

This week you will understand how to design the best distribution to your company. Intermodal and international logistics will be considered and how to take the best decision in terms of price and delivery time for each situation.

Understanding and realizing the best Supply Chain logistical choices and work on the business network is one of the most important issues of the Supply Chain Management. This week you will learn about the main issues to manage and to make the best consistent decisions. You will analyze and create Supply Chain Logistics Integration according to your Supply Chain Network Design.

The Strategic Alliances, Supply Chain network design, international and domestic strategies. Those are some of the topics that we will go through this week to understand how to put in practice the theories you learned during the semester. Supply Chain Relationship Management is the essence of this course.

Flexible Manufacturing Strategies are the way companies learn to manage their costs accordingly to its production. We will present case studies and the best practices for you to understand how can you apply them to your own company. You will learn about JIT, Kanbam method, Toyota, Hyunday, Constraint Theory concepts and others revolutionary strategies that coordinate the SCM to another level of importance.

Reverse logistics is a contemporary theory that brings manager in to the light of the environmental management. This week you will learn that the base to build the reverse logistic is the Supply Chain Management. You will learn the different types and application of the reverse logistics.

In this last week you will learn a very important subject: Green Supply Chain Management. The companies are victims of their own success and now the new laws are being more restricted to environmental rules and being green can avoid new business fines. This is a new subject that needs attention from managers. We will also correlate and understand that GSCM and Green Marketing can complement each other.