Graduate School of Management

In commerce, supply-chain management (SCM), the management of the flow of goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption. Interconnected or interlinked networks, channels and node businesses combine in the provision of products and services required by end customers in a supply chain.

Supply-Chain Management (SCM), techniques with the aim of coordinating all parts of Supply Chain from supplying raw materials to delivering and/or resumption of products, tries to minimize total costs with respect to existing conflicts among the chain partners. An example of these conflicts is the interrelation between the sale department desiring to have higher inventory levels to fulfill demands and the warehouse for which lower inventories are desired to reduce holding costs.

This course will be useful for students from management streams who aspire to learn the concept of Supply Chain Management. Professionals, regardless of which sector or industry they belong to, can use this course to learn how to apply the methods of Supply Chain Management in their respective project environments.