COURSE OUTCOMES
After successful completion of this short learning programme, you will be able to:
- Understand the role of network design in a supply chain
- Identify the factors influencing supply chain network design decisions
- Develop a framework for making network design decisions
- Use optimisation for facility location and capacity allocation decisions
- Identify the components of a demand forecast
- Forecast demand in a supply chain, given historical demand data, using times series methodologies
- Analyse demand forecasts to estimate forecast error
- Understand the role of transportation in a supply chain
- Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different modes of transportation
- Identify the relative strengths and weaknesses of various transport network design options
- Identify the trade-offs that shippers need to consider when designing a transport network
- Identify dimensions of supplier performance that have an impact on total supply chain cost
- Design a tailored supplier portfolio