Logistics
& Supply Chain Management
Spring 2007
09:10-12:00 Friday,
MA208
Professor Chwen-Tzeng Su
MA338, Phone 5114
Office Hours
and by appointment
Email; suct@yuntech.edu.tw
Purpose:
The course is intended to introduce the student to a set of logistics or
supply chain management problems and the methods for treating those
problems.
Course Format:
The
format of this course will be a combination of discussion of case problems and
assigned readings. Students are expected to come to class prepared to discuss
in some detail their analysis of assigned case problems and reading
assignments. (See below under Course Requirements.)
Course Materials:
1. Text Book: Supply Chain
Management, Strategy, Planning and Operation, Sunil
Chopra, Peter Meindl, Pretice-Hall, Inc., 2001.
2. Additional materials will be
handed out during the course.
Course Requirements:
There will be a midterm and final examination
covering material over the entire course.
The exam will be open book and open notes.
Student preparation for classroom discussion; as noted students are expected to come to class prepared to discuss either the assigned readings or cases. In regard to the assigned readings, students should make note of the central thesis of the article, and how might the article’s thesis be implemented. In regard to the assigned cases, students should address the questions assigned for each case preparing both qualitative and quantitative responses to the questions. Students are responsible for this preparation regardless of whether the case is to be written or not. Students will be selected at random to present their analyses of the assigned cases in class.
Term Project Schedule:
l
Project proposal due by April 25. The proposal should include the
following contents. 1. title 2. background
& motivation 3. purpose of project 4. literature review 5. research
method 6. schedule Gantt chart 7. expected
results.
l
Final report due by last class
Students
will be graded according to the following criteria;
Item
Weight
Final Exam.
20%
Term
Project
30%
Schedule
3/2 Chapter 1: Introduction to logistics /Supply Chain Management
3/9 Chapter 2：Supply Chain Performance
Chapter 3：Supply Chain Drivers and Obstacles
3/16 Chapter 4：Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
3/23 Chapter 5：Aggregate Planning in Supply Chain
3/30 Chapter 6：Planning Supply and Demand in a Supply Chain
4/6 Chapter 7：Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
4/13 Chapter 8：Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
4/20 Chapter 9: Determining Optimal Level of Product Availability
4/27 Project Proposal ＆ Oral Report
5/4 Chapter 10: Transportation in a Supply Chain
5/11 Chapter 10: Transportation in a Supply Chain
5/18 Chapter 11 Facility Decisions: Network Design in a Supply Chain
5/25 Chapter 12 Information Technology in a Supply Chain
6/1 Chapter 13: Coordination in a Supply Chain
6/8 Chapter 14: E-Business and Supply Chain
6/15 Oral Report of Final Project
6/22 Oral Report of Final Project
6/29 Final Exam