Supply Chain Management & Market Logistics at UD

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For nearly four decades, the University of Dallas graduate program in business has committed itself to assisting students in pursuing their business goals. The reason - your success is our success. As with any partnership, real success lies in the ability of one partner to promote the excellence and success of the other. At the University of Dallas, we strive to form this kind of partnership with our students; one that promotes their best interests and one that exceeds their expectations, which is why we're the #1 MBA program for working professionals in Dallas/Fort Worth.* We invite you to discover how we can help you succeed with an MBA in Supply Chain Management.

*Source: The Dallas Business Journal - Book of Lists 2004.

Program Objectives

In the Supply Chain Management concentration you learn...

• How to manage large, global supply chains
  
• How to plan and schedule for complex logistics operations
  
• How to choose, implement and adopt state-of-the-art information technologies
  
• How to effectively and efficiently solve up-to-date business cases from companies in your area
  
• How to build pivotal analysis that includes financial, customer, process and internal aspects of decision-making
  
• How to find the right partners and to outsource non-core activities within supply chain operations
  
• How to manage a successful, dynamic career in supply chain management

Definitions

Supply Chain Management is the integration of business processes from end users through original suppliers that provides services and information that adds value for customers.

Logistics is the management of material and information flows from supplier to manufacturer to consumers in order to fulfill demand and ultimately exceed consumer expectations.

Presentation

The next few slides provide information about the evolution, of the discipline and also an integrated framework that is used in our program.

Evolution of Supply Chain Management
What began as a bundle of fairly separated functions has merged into a new discipline over the course of about fifty years. As the slide below shows, there are a multitude of processes and functions that have – more or less organically – grown into our discipline.

Evolution of Supply Chain
Supply Chain Management is a fairly new profession as we have seen on the last slide. In terms of gaining sophistication, it has grown from a pure support function in the 1960s to a strategic weapon today. This slide shows how competition through SCM has evolved …

Dimensions of Supply Chain Management
The key to teaching at the University of Dallas is to have consistent and comprehensive frameworks. Below is a generic Supply Chain Management framework, which covers management, performance and contextual aspects of our discipline. The framework is at the core of designing, developing and implementing global supply chain networks of any size.

Trends of Supply Chain Management
There are several reasons why Supply Chain Management has gained such a tremendous amount of attention lately. The slide below shows four key influencers on SCM and how these have led to an emphasis on processes, technology and (organizational) structure. The slide also illustrates which strategic factors have to be taken into consideration when you design a supply chain strategy.

Strategy Drives Everything
Once a strategy is defined, it will drive every aspect of supply chain design, development and implementation. The mission (and strategy) define how business processes are set up. Processes, in turn, rely on decisions. Decisions cannot be made without reliable information and information is communicated through technology. Naturally, the slide below is applicable to any field in business.

Main Business Process
With our framework in place, we can now start to describe some of the most important aspects. One such aspect concerns the business processes within Supply Chain Management. The slide below shows all main processes and how they relate to either demand or supply management. Yet, it also shows that these two cannot be separated and are logically one coherent system.

Don't All Companies Have the Same Process?
Yes, of course, every company "does" Supply Chain management in one way or another. Supply chains are as different as people in that they all have many things in common, yet each one is different from the next in many detailed aspects as well.

The slide below shows how one supply chain links into the next through material and information flows …