COURSE UNIT TITLE

: STRATEGIC SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IÜE 5028 STRATEGIC SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Production Management and Industrial Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MERT TOPOYAN

Offered to

Production Management and Industrial Business Administration

Course Objective

Explaining the supply chain management as an integrated system in strategic context, evaluating the contemporary approaches in supply chain management, analysing the issues that should be addressed in order to gain competitive advantage in supply chain management.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to explain the supply chain management concept and participants
2   Being able to evaluate the supply chain decisions with a system approach
3   Being able to relate the decision levels in a supply chain
4   Being able to interpret the place and importance of strategic decisions in supply chains
5   Being able to make strategic decisions in supply chains

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and Course Description
2 Strategy and strategic management concepts
3 Decision levels in supply chains and supply chain as an strategic asset of business
4 Competitive supply chain strategies: Cost leadership, differentiation, focused strategies
5 Strategic decisions in supply chains: Make-or-buy, global sourcing, supplier relationships management
6 Strategic decisions in supply chains: Distribution, outsourcing, strategic alliances
7 Strategic supply network design: Integration in supply chains
8 Supply chain information systems and strategic information sharing decisions
9 Managing the supply chain costs in a strategic level
10 Sustainable supply chains, lean supply chains
11 Evaluating the performance of suppliers and supply chain, SCOR Model
12 Case studies-assignments
13 Case studies-assignments
14 Conclusion and Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Cohen, S., Roussel, J., Strategic Supply Chain Management: The 5 Disciplines for Top Performance, McGraw-Hill, 2005
Lebreton, B., Strategic Closed-Loop Supply Chain Management, Springer, 2007
Poirier, C. C., Advanced Supply Chain Management : How to Build a Sustained Competitive Advantage, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1999
Hugos, M., Essentials of Supply Chain Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003
Lee, H., Lee, C.Y. (Ed.), Building Supply Chain Excellence In Emerging Economies, Springer, 2007
Cook, T.A., Managing Global Supply Chains: Compliance, Security, and
Dealing with Terrorism, Auerbach Publications, 2008
Kordic, V. (Ed.), Supply Chain Theory and Applications, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Austuria, 2008
Manish., G., Proth, J.M., Supply chain design and management: strategic and tactical perspectives, Academic Press, 2002.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Interactive presentations, case studies

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 104

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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