Week

Thurs

Topic

Text Reading

1

13 Sept

Introduction to Supply Chain Management

Ch. 1-3

2

20 Sept

Demand forecasting

Ch. 7

3

27 Sept

Aggregate planning

Ch. 8

4

4 Oct

Inventory management; Economic Order Quantity; Quantity discount

Ch. 11  

5

11 Oct

Multi-echelon inventory control

Ch. 11 

6

18 Oct

Mid-term Exam

7

25 Oct

Managing uncertainty; Safety stock and Service levels; Inventory Pooling

Ch. 12

8

1 Nov

Determining availability; Newsvendor models

Ch. 13

9

8 Nov

Beer Game

10

15 Nov

Supply Chain co-ordination;

Ch. 10

11

22 Nov

Double marginalisation; Sourcing decisions

Ch. 15

12

29 Nov

Revenue management

Ch. 16

13

6 Dec

Sustainability; Course summary

Ch. 18