Supply Chain Management

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code: 016032
Course Name: Academic Paper Writing
Course Type: Specialty Course
Periods: 32
Credits: 2
Target Students: Undergraduates Majoring in Business Administration
Assessment: Examination
Preparatory Courses: Management, Logistics

2. Brief Course Introduction

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a course based on the manufacturing and service globalization and integration. Although SCM is a young knowledge which just emerged on 1980’s, it has been studied and used by countless enterprises specially those multinational giants and their relative enterprises such as retailers, wholesalers, distributors, suppliers, etc. SCM mainly studies planning, organizing, controlling, coordinating and evaluating of the supply chain in the processing, including the rules and cases from the supply chain operations, the programming objective is to minimize the total cost in the supply chain so that the total profit can be maximized in the whole supply chain. The goal of this subject is to cover not only high-level supply chain strategy and concepts, but also to give students a solid understanding of analytical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems.