Manufacturing & Service SCM Design

This subject investigates the core elements of manufacturing and service supply chain design, focusing on topics such as: design of capacity, technology management, facility location optimisation, coordination and the achievement of quality, flexibility and cost management. The subject will include treatment of the trade-offs and synergies between performance outcomes of cost, quality, delivery performance, flexibility and innovativeness, and the sustainability of supply chain design choices. The subject will further outline differences of service supply chains from product-based supply chains; emphasize understanding of how supply chains interact with people for delivery of services and different approaches for incorporating people, process, and technology; analyse industry-specific service supply chains; discuss innovations in service supply chains; and present emerging and futuristic trends in service supply chains. It will cover the advanced technology choices associated with supply chain network design, and the international location and sourcing decisions, of offshoring and reshoring. Current opportunities of undertaking innovations in supply chain choices will be examined and evaluated.