9. Supply chain alliance (2 hours)
Framework for strategic alliance. Third party logistics, retailer and supplier relationship
10. Project presentation (2 hours)
Group project presentation and discussion, session 1
Practice (32 hours)
1. Logistics and supply chain management practice, Introduction (4 hours)
Discuss various forms and innovations of logistics in practice. Discuss practical company logistics, including in-bound,
production line, and out-bound logistics. Discuss logistics enterprises in practice and logistics industry in China and in
the World. Introduce the formation and evolution of supply chain and supply chain management, the material, money,
and information flows in supply chains, the entities in supply chains and their relationships.
2. Material and financial flows in practice (2 hours)
Discuss various forms of material flows in firms and supply chains in practice. Methods for computing material flow time,
speed, and turnover cycles. Little’s law in Queueing Theory and its application in material flows. Practical cases of the
rise and fall of companies because of their performance of material flows.
3. Supply chain finance in practice (4 hours)
The trend of shrinking cash-to-cash cycle of entities in a supply chain breaks the cash flow in companies and supply
chains. The challenges and opportunities of the uneven financial positions of supply chain partners. The role of the pivot
company in supply chain financing。 Supply chain finance strategy and method and their impact on company’s cash-to-
cash cycle
4. Practical information flow in supply chains (4 hours)
Bullwhip effect game and case study.
5. eBusiness and supply chains in practice (4 hours)
Survey of emerging eBusiness, Course Project topics and guided group discussion
6. Research in supply chain coordination (4 hours).
Research paper: Pricing and Lead Time Decisions in Decentralized Supply Chains, Management Science 53(5), 2007.
Course project discussion and development
7. Research in supply chain integration (2 hours)
Research paper: pull or push-pull (article to be decided)
8. Distribution strategy in practice (4 hours)
Case study and course project discussion and development
9. Alliances in supply chains (2 hours)
Case study
10. Project presentation 2 (2 hours)