Academic Catalog

EMBA5611 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Course Code: 8375611
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 1(1-0)
ECTS Credit: 3.0
Department: Executive Master Of Business Administration
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Masters
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Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Supply chain management is a business function that provides its executives insight into all other business functions. Careers in supply management offer the challenge of integrating all of the supply management activities into a smoothly operating system. Hence, good supply management greatly improves the firm’s productivity, profitability, and return on investment. In this course we will try to develop (a) an understanding of key drivers of supply chain performance (b) an understanding of the complexities of inter-firm and intra-firm coordination (c) analytical and problem solving skills necessary to develop solutions for a variety of supply chain management and design problems.