Session Eight: Supply Chain Coordination Strategies

Session Eight: Supply Chain Coordination Strategies

Objectives:

Vendor Demonstration - i2

Analytical Framework for Integration, Optimization, Collaboration & Exchange

Emerging Supply Chain Business Models

Global Supply Chain Optimization Model

Real Options and Flexibility

Readings:

Anderson, D. and Lee, H. L., "New Supply Chain Business Models - The Opportunities and Challenges", Achieving Supply Chain Excellence Through Technology, Vol. 3, Montgomery Research, 2001.

Cohen, M.A. and A. Huchzermeier, "Global Supply Chain Network Management Under Price/Exchange Rate Risk and Demand Uncertainty", Logistics in the Information Age, Proceedings of ISL, Florence, Italy, 1999. An overview of the real option - global supply chain planning model framework.

R. Ireland and R. Bruce, "CPFR: Only the Beginning of Collaboration", Supply Chain Management Review, Sept./Oct. 2000. This article was distributed in an earlier class and it describes the movement towards collaboration in the retail industry.

"Chain Reaction", The Economist, January 31, 2002 This article discusses real time event management for supply chains

Session Descriptions

Session One: Course Introduction - What is a Value Network?
Session Two: Case Study: EMC
Session Three: Cast Study: Wal-Mart and Cott Beverage
Session Four and Five: Case Study: Dell Computers
Session Six: Data Modeling for Integration
Session Seven: Principles of Distribution and Integration
Session Eight: Supply Chain Coordination Strategies
Session Nine: Supply Chain Systems and Vision
Session Ten: Customer Relationship Management / Information Sharing & Incentives
Session Eleven: After Sales Service and Support / Customer Service Differentiation
Session Twelve: Future Directions