MBA Supply Chain Kit
Supply chain and advanced operations electives: network design, the bullwhip effect, sourcing and procurement, revenue management and supply chain resilience, on top of the core inventory and process cards.
Learning
MBA Supply Chain Management Elective Course Guide Template
FullSupply chain elective guide: competencies, 14-session roadmap, key concepts, Northfield jacket buyback mini-case, teaching note, rubric, exam plan, self-test
Fisher 1997; Lee, Padmanabhan and Whang 1997; Pasternack 1985; Cachon and Lariviere 2005; ASCM SCOR DS; ICC Incoterms 2020MBA Inventory Management Concept Card Template
FullInventory card: EOQ with cost curve, reorder point, safety stock, fill rate, newsvendor critical ratio, ABC classification, inventory turns, self-test
EOQ (Harris 1913); newsvendor (Arrow, Harris and Marschak 1951); Little 1961
Design
MBA Supply Chain Network Design Concept Card Template
FullNetwork design card: facility location MILP, Solver set-up, 15-network enumeration, price of a service promise, centre of gravity, pooling, landed cost
Geoffrion and Graves 1974; Hakimi 1964; Maister 1976; Eppen 1979; ICC Incoterms 2020MBA Process Analysis Concept Card Template
FullProcess analysis card: flow diagrams, capacity, bottleneck, utilisation, flow time, Little's Law with examples, improvement levers, self-test
Little's Law (Little 1961); bottleneck logic (Goldratt and Cox 1984)
Sourcing
MBA Sourcing and Procurement Concept Card Template
FullSourcing card: TCO with pipeline and safety stock, quantity discounts, Kraljic matrix, supplier scorecard, make or buy, buyback contract, self-test
Kraljic 1983; Williamson 1979; Pasternack 1985; Cachon and Lariviere 2005MBA Revenue Management Concept Card Template
FullRevenue management card: EMSR-b nested limits, simulation vs first come first served, overbooking, network bid prices, RevPAR, fairness, self-test
Littlewood 1972; Belobaba 1987, 1989; Rothstein 1971; Gallego and van Ryzin 1994
Resilience and recovery
MBA Bullwhip Effect Concept Card Template
FullBullwhip effect card: four causes, variance and CV ratios, Chen et al. formula, multi-stage sharing, step response, batching data, remedies, examples, self-test
Lee, Padmanabhan and Whang 1997; Chen, Drezner, Ryan and Simchi-Levi 2000; Forrester 1961; Sterman 1989MBA Supply Chain Resilience Concept Card Template
FullResilience card: time to recover, time to survive, performance impact ranking, mitigation vs contingency, common-cause dual sourcing, self-test
Simchi-Levi, Schmidt and Wei 2014; Tomlin 2006; Sheffi 2005