Supply Chain Management 4 (U00653)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : EEL-4-MNSCM

This course focuses mainly on the materials management topics of operations management. Its goal is to help students become effective managers in today's competitive, global environment. This is because many of the students who take this course will progress to become managers in manufacturing (and service) organisations in a variety of functional areas. Students should gain an understanding what material managers do and realise that materials management involves many business functions.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Management (School of Engineering and Electronics), (School of Engineering and Electronics, Schedule M)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of the module, students should be able to:

1. Understand how different companies operate different strategies (make-to-order, make-to-stock, assemble-to-order, etc.) in the same market and how to link these manufacturing strategy;

2. Distinguish between the different type of inventory and be able to calculate some of the cost and service trade-offs involved in reaching materials management decisions;

3. Develop policies for both continuous review and periodic review inventory control systems;

4. Describe how aggregate planning relates to a company's long-term and short-term plans, and be able to calculate different type of reactive and aggressive alternative and calculate the advantages and limitations of each;

5. Distinguish between dependent and independent demand and their differences when planning for the replenishment of materials;

6. Discuss the importance of the MPS and the nature of the information that can be derived form it, and develop an MPS (for a make-to-stock environment) and compute the ATP and MPS quantities for end items;

7. Explain the logic, and perform the necessary calculations, of MRP, identifying the key inputs (and their source) and outputs (and where and how they are used);

8. Identify the characteristics of JIT that enable the realisation of the JIT philosophy, how JIT can facilitate continuous improvement, the strategic advantages of JIT and the issues associated with implementation;

9. Explain how to link marketing strategy to operations strategy through the use of competitive priorities;.

10. Explain how operations management (and specifically materials management) can be used as a competitive weapon.