Supply chain innovation, strategy and management

Open University Business School
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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Course Description:

'' The course takes a holistic approach to total product supply systems through comprehensive analysis relevant to participants at all levels of buyer/supplier relationships. ‘Product�encompasses both artefacts and services. We will:

explain the factors that have influenced management approaches to coordination within ‘supply chains�and other kinds of supply system;

Explain how and why supply chain organisation has changed and continues to change;

establish how supply chain management is extending across the total product life cycle �from product creation through distribution, marketing, and aftermarket support to end-of-life processing;

examine the implications of this perspective for the product and process design and for wider technological and management practice;

locate concepts of ‘supply chain management�within broader forms of production organisation, and contrast the approaches of American management to supply chains with their counterparts in the EU and in Japan;

illuminate issues crucial to technological and management practice that arise from changes in supply systems: concerning, for example, logistic practice, financial practice, intellectual property rights and electronic commerce;

Assess how, in supply chain contexts, organisational cultures and related phenomena can constrain attempts to innovate and to implement strategy across organisational boundaries, and evaluate methods for overcoming these constraints;

explain the implications that increasing supply chain coordination may have for innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises, and consider the appropriate strategies for such enterprises in these circumstances.

Explain the implications of organisational and other supply chain changes for managers and other stakeholders;

Explore contrasting models across the arm’s length-collaborative continuum relating these approaches to, and within, different companies and countries;

Examine the role of strategies and practices developed by large lead companies and how their approaches to supply chain governance impact on other organisations, suppliers, customers and competitors �and on the wider society.

Explain how resource constraints and environmental regulation are reshaping all aspects of supply chain functioning, leading to increasing emphasis on external regulation by governmental and non-governmental organisations;

Explore potential tensions between supply systems integration and wider economic and societal conditions;

Contrast alternative approaches to the integrated organisation of production and other activities within the supply-distribution nexus;

Identify the technological and other factors that contribute to the extending reach and scale of product supply, distribution and marketing;

Relate changes in specific methods used in supply chain management to coordination across management functional boundaries within organizations and across organizational boundaries.

Consider the potential relevance of approaches to the measurement of organizational and individual performance to improving supply chain functioning.

Explain the factors shaping contrasting approaches to supply chain innovation, strategy and management.

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