Supply Chain System Optimisation
Business & Management
A course by
Lincoln University
You’ll learn how to design, measure and optimise complex supply chain systems to achieve your strategic objectives.
In-person study
Face-to-face learning in a physical classroom setting
Lincoln University Campus, Lincoln
Core skills this course teaches
Understand relationship between strategic objectives and supply chain design and performance
Grasp how a firm's strategic objectives influence the design and performance of its supply chain.
Identify the strategy of the firm and its supply chain
Be able to recognize and articulate the strategic positioning of both the firm and its supply chain.
Effectively address supply chain design issues
Tackle challenges arising in designing efficient and effective supply chains.
What You're Signing Up For
Supply Chain System Optimisation teaches students how to understand the relationship between strategic objectives and supply chain design and performance, identify firm and supply chain strategies, address design and operation issues, and apply optimisation initiatives to achieve strategic objectives. Students will develop skills to identify, describe, and solve supply chain problems and implement measures to optimise supply chain design, management, and operation.
Course Content
- Relationship between strategic objectives and supply chain design and performance
- Identification of firm and supply chain strategies
- Addressing design issues of supply chains
- Solving measurement and operational issues in supply chains
- Selection and application of optimisation initiatives for strategic goals
- Identification, description, and justification of supply chain problems
- Development of implementable optimisation measures for supply chain design, management and operation
What you need to know first
A minimum of 75 credit points from specified courses
A minimum of 60 credit points from specified courses
Any level 200 course
Any level 300 course
A minimum of 15 credit points from specified courses
Statistics, QMET-103 QMET-103R
Introductory Statistics, COMM-111
Biometrics, QMET-201
Analytics and Statistics for Business, QMET-204
What sort of industry will this job lead to
Supply Chain Management
Logistics
Business Management
Future employment opportunities might be
Supply Chain Analyst
Operations Manager
Logistics Coordinator
Business Analyst