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As a professor, you want to provide your students with a course that will prepare them to be business analysts and eventually supply chain managers (or general managers). A key part of this role is understanding how to model and optimize the supply chain—a well-proven discipline in the business community. You probably already teach some elements of strategic network design. This book will help you go deeper on the topic and better equip your students to tackle this problem in industry. This book will greatly enhance this part of your program by providing in-depth coverage of the topic, written by authors with backgrounds in theory and practice, with real-world-sized problems, exercises, and commercial software. Your students will be much better prepared for their first job after using this text and be better informed as managers later in their career.
We wrote this book to enrich your course. We want you to understand how this is implemented in practice and to have access to realistically sized problems. You can also use this material to expand into other supply chain areas as appropriate for your course (for example, a detailed discussion on transportation costs or a detailed discussion on corporate strategy.)
This book would be appropriate for courses in Supply Chain, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, or an MBA or Business program. Supply chain network design is about determining the best supply chain to physically move product from the source to the final destination. As such, this topic gives you a strong sense of a firm’s supply chain and how it works. It also touches very strategic business issues such as cost, service, and risk.
- Supply chain network design class
- Supply chain class- with a section for supply chain design
- General business class with a need for strong cases and a deep dive into a topic
- Optimization class with a need for a practical and large-scale application area
- An independent study class
See the Course Materials section for more information.