Course details
Supply Chain Management: Fundamentals and Trends
OPER 60515A
This course introduces the main strategies, approaches, tools, and practices in integrated supply chain management, along with challenges in their implementation. By emphasizing core concepts, emerging trends, and practical applications, this course equips students to critically analyze supply chains, apply suitable methods, and improve operations across sectors, industries, and global networks.
The seminar provides students with a solid understanding of supply chain systems and, once they have acquired sufficient experience, enables them to:
- Understand and apply integrated supply chain management concepts, including innovative and emerging practices.
- Contribute to the design, adaptation, and implementation of a logistics or supply chain system in diverse business or non-profit contexts.
- Analyze the performance of a supply chain or logistics system and identify improvement opportunities.
- Recognize the value of logistics systems (MRP II/ERP, JIT, DRP, etc.) and select the most appropriate tools.
- Analyze supply chain risks and develop strategies to enhance resilience and continuity.
- Understand the role of collaboration among stakeholders to optimize performance and create network-wide value.
- Apply lean, agile, and hybrid supply chain principles to improve efficiency and responsiveness.
- Understand the impact of emerging trends and technologies-including sustainability, digital transformation, and AI-and how they can support planning, forecasting, and operations.
- Understand the complexities and challenges of global supply chains, including regulatory, logistical, and cultural factors.
- Understand and apply integrated supply chain management concepts, including innovative and emerging practices.
- Contribute to the design, adaptation, and implementation of a logistics or supply chain system in diverse business or non-profit contexts.
- Analyze the performance of a supply chain or logistics system and identify improvement opportunities.
- Recognize the value of logistics systems (MRP II/ERP, JIT, DRP, etc.) and select the most appropriate tools.
- Analyze supply chain risks and develop strategies to enhance resilience and continuity.
- Understand the role of collaboration among stakeholders to optimize performance and create network-wide value.
- Apply lean, agile, and hybrid supply chain principles to improve efficiency and responsiveness.
- Understand the impact of emerging trends and technologies-including sustainability, digital transformation, and AI-and how they can support planning, forecasting, and operations.
- Understand the complexities and challenges of global supply chains, including regulatory, logistical, and cultural factors.
Themes covered
Strategic choices for supply chain positioning (lean agile leagile)
Supply chain performance metrics and maturity level
Planning and management systems for supply chain activities (MRP; MRP II; ERP; APS)
JIT TPS and "Lean" supply chain
Collaborative sales and operations planning
Bullwhip effect (causes how to measure and how to mitigate it)
Implementation of integrated supply chain management (DRP; flowcasting; continuous replenishment; CPFR)
Supply chain resilience
Sustainable supply chain
Digitalization of the supply chain and "Supply Chain 4.0"
Specific characteristics of supply chains in different industries (e.g. healthcare humanitarian technology pharmaceutical)
Important notes
Course in French : OPER 60515
Course code
OPER 60515A
Subject
Operations and logistics
Program
Master of Science (MSc)
Location
Côte-des-Neiges
Instruction mode
On-site learning
Credits
3