ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
LOG3632 | Supply Chain and Global Logistics Management | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. YAVUZ GÜNALAY |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ÖZGÜ TURGUT Prof. Dr. SELİM ZAİM |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | The goal of supply chain management is to link the marketplace, the distribution network, the manufacturing process and the procurement activity in such a way that customers are serviced at higher levels and yet at a lower total cost. The role of logistics in using service levels to segment markets, exploring appropriate measures to assess logistics productivity and service performance. This course provides information on auditing logistic systems and describes how greater responsiveness in the supply chain can be achieved through lead time reduction. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Analyzes how logistics capabilities and supply chain excellence can help companies gain a competitive advantage. It will also look at the relationship between logistics and financial performance. II. Explains which customer value can be created and delivered through the supply chain. The theme will be demand-driven and responsive supply chain strategies. III. Analyzes the need to understand the 'costs-to-serve'. Issues such as customer profitability analysis and benchmarking will be discussed. IV. Discusses the concept of the agile supply chain and the building blocks of the agile paradigm. V. Analyzes time compression including the search for ways in which non-value adding time can be removed from the pipeline. VI. Examines the ideas of supply chain risk and vulnerability and explores ways in which supply chain resilience can be improved. VII. Examines the fundamental business transformations that are required to enable supply chain integration to become a reality. VIII. Examines the characteristics of effective supply chains. |
1st Week: Logistics & Competitive Strategy 2nd Week: Logistics & Customer Value 3rd Week: Measuring Logistics Costs and Performance 4thWeek: Creating the Agile Supply Chain 5thWeek: Strategic Lead-Time Management 6thWeek: Strategic Lead-Time Management 7thWeek: Managing the Global Pipeline 8thWeek: Managing the Global Pipeline 9thWeek: Managing Networks and Relationships 10thWeek: Managing Networks and Relationships 11thWeek: Overcoming the Barriers to Supply Chain Integration 12thWeek: Overcoming the Barriers to Supply Chain Integration 13th Week: Presentation 14th Week: Presentation |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Logistics & Competitive Strategy | |
2) | Logistics & Customer Value | |
3) | Measuring Logistics Costs and Performance | |
4) | Creating the Agile Supply Chain | |
5) | Strategic Lead-Time Management | |
6) | Strategic Lead-Time Management | |
7) | Managing the Global Pipeline | |
8) | Managing the Global Pipeline | |
9) | Managing Networks and Relationships | |
10) | Managing Networks and Relationships | |
11) | Overcoming the Barriers to Supply Chain Integration | |
12) | Overcoming the Barriers to Supply Chain Integration | |
13) | Presentation | |
14) | Presentation |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Supply Chain Management: by S. Chopra and P. Meindl, 4th ed. 2010, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies by Simchi Levi, Kaminsky, Simchi Levi, 3rd ed. 2008, McGraw-Hill. Logistics and Supply Chain Management by Martin Christoper, 2004. |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Quizzes | 3 | % 15 |
Midterms | 1 | % 35 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 40 |
Quizzes | 3 | 3 |
Midterms | 8 | 50 |
Final | 8 | 60 |
Total Workload | 153 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |