e-Supply Chain Management
Synopsis
The new economy has radically changed supply chain
management, and traditional procurement methods are becoming obsolete.
Technology plays an increasingly important role as new and innovative
planning systems, execution systems, and performance measurement
systems are implemented to improve control of the supply chain.
While bottom-line fiscal concerns tend to be the most
obvious advantage of e-supply chain management, this course also
discusses how these technologies can transform SCM into a major
strategic factor.
Seat Time
2 to 3 hours
Course-level Performance Objective
Learners define the major components of supply chain
management and explore the role that Internet technology can play
in critical business areas, such as procurement, logistics, and
forecasting.
Topic-level Performance Objectives
- Explain how the new economy is impacting supply
chain management.
- Given a real-life e-business scenario, distinguish
between activities that are upstream, internal, and downstream;
identify the supply chain management functions affected; explain
how planning systems enhance the e-supply chain; and explain how
execution systems enhance the e-supply chain.
- Given a fictional e-business scenario, identify
the appropriate actions that would improve supply chain performance.
- Explain how technology affects traditional procurement
procedures.
- Identify the major ways a company can benefit from
implementing an e-procurement system.
- Distinguish between buy-side and sell-side applications.
- Given certain characteristics of a company, determine
which solution (buy-side or sell-side) best meets their needs
for reducing procurement costs.
- Match the benefits of sell-side applications to
the parties who benefit from them.
- Given a list of business challenges, identify which
features of sell-side applications will address them.
- Describe what an e-marketplace is.
- Identify the three common ways e-marketplaces create
value in the supply chain.
- Given a fictional e-business scenario, identify
the type of e-marketplace that would best meet strategic objectives.
- Given a fictional e-business scenario, identify
the e-marketplace pricing models that would best meet strategic
objectives.
- Explain the impact the Internet is having on traditional
logistics management
- Identify the major challenges of traditional logistics
- Given a scenario, assess a company's logistics
functions and identify the areas that can be improved with the
use of e-logistics.
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