Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- One teaching period
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2021 teaching periods
Hawthorn
| Higher Ed. Semester 2 | ||
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: |
Swinburne Online
| Teaching Period 2 | ||
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: |
Prerequisites
Completion of a minimum of 50 Credit Points from a Bachelors degree
Corequisites
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Aims and objectives
pre 2020 unit code BUS20008
This unit aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge, and skills to enable them to analyse the theories of logistics and supply chain management and to apply these theories in solving typical logistics and supply chain issues. This unit focuses on the application of logistics and supply chain thinking in today’s global market. An ancillary aim of this unit is to equip students with appropriate competencies that enable them to innovatively apply supply chain knowledge for the purpose of improving company profits, alleviating human suffering, and sustaining the planet. In this unit students explore various facets of the supply chain process, and consider how effective supply chain management positively impacts organisations, both financially and operationally.
After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
1. Articulate and defend supply chain decisions in a given business context.
2. Analyse how supply chain decisions influence the business process in a range of complex situations.
3. Research and make judgements about issues that influence supply chain decisions in given environments.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Face to Face Mode:
Scheduled hours: Lectures (12 x 2 hours), Tutorials (12 x 1 hour)
Online Mode (SOL):
Engaging with online content and discussions
Scheduled hours: Lectures (12 x 2 hours), Tutorials (12 x 1 hour)
Online Mode (SOL):
Engaging with online content and discussions
Student workload:
For all teaching and learning structures (both face to face and online), students are expected to spend an average of 150 hours per unit in total over the duration of the study period
This includes all:
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
• Non-scheduled learning events and activities (including directed online learning activities, assessments, independent study, student group meetings, and research)
To be successful, students should:
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
Assessment
1. Assignment 1 (Individual) 15 - 25%
2. Assignment 2 (Group) 20 - 30%
2. Assignment 2 (Group) 20 - 30%
3. Presentation (Group) 5 - 15%
4. Reflective Journal (Individual) 40 - 60%
4. Reflective Journal (Individual) 40 - 60%
General skills outcomes
During this unit students will receive feedback on the following key generic skills:
• teamwork skills
• problem solving skills
• analysis skills
• communication skills
• ability to work independently and collaboratively
• teamwork skills
• problem solving skills
• analysis skills
• communication skills
• ability to work independently and collaboratively
Content
• Introduction to supply chain management and logistics
• Role of logistics in supply chain
• Global dimensions of supply chain
• Supply chain relationships
• Supply chain performance measurement and financial analysis
• Supply chain technology- managing information flows
• Demand management
• Order management and customer service
• Managing inventory in the supply chain
• Transportation-managing the flow of the supply chain
• Distribution-managing fulfilment operations
• Supply chain network analysis and design
• Sourcing materials and services
• Operations-producing goods and services
• Managing reverse flows in the supply chain
• Ethical and sustainability issues in supply chains
• Role of logistics in supply chain
• Global dimensions of supply chain
• Supply chain relationships
• Supply chain performance measurement and financial analysis
• Supply chain technology- managing information flows
• Demand management
• Order management and customer service
• Managing inventory in the supply chain
• Transportation-managing the flow of the supply chain
• Distribution-managing fulfilment operations
• Supply chain network analysis and design
• Sourcing materials and services
• Operations-producing goods and services
• Managing reverse flows in the supply chain
• Ethical and sustainability issues in supply chains
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.