Course Outline

Bangladesh University of Professionals

Faculty of Business Studies

Course Title Supply Chain Management

Course Code
Course Teacher Muhammad Ataul Karim
Designation
E-mail md.ataul.karim1@gmail.com
Contact no

Course Description

Supply chain management deals with the management of materials, information and financial
flows in a network consisting of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers. The
coordination and integration of these flows within and across companies is important for effective
management. Supply Chain becomes critical with the trend of outsourcing, globalization, and fast
technological evolution and dispersion of value chain activities

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the importance of supply chain management in todays global environment and how
the internal linkages between functions, and better management of operations and the supply chain,
can provide competitive advantages.

2. Identify supply chain management issues and use appropriate tools and techniques to enhance
supply chain management.

3. Demonstrate an appreciation of how the theoretical concepts described in the course may be
effectively applied in practice by companies; and

4. Construct models using spreadsheets to solve simple operations and supply chain management
problems.

Course Assessment

a. Class Attendance 5%
b. Individual Oral Presentation 5%
c. Written Assignments/home works 5%
d. Term Paper/ Project works (group) 10%
e. Quizzes and weekly tests 5%
f. 2 Mid Term Examinations (15% each) 30%
g. Compulsory Comprehensive Final Exam 40%
Total 100%
Distribution of Weight

Numerical Grade Letter Grade Grade Point

80% and above A+ (A Plus) 4.00
75% to < 80% A (A Regular) 3.75
70% to < 75% A- (A Minus) 3.50
65% to < 70% B+ (B Plus) 3.25
60% to < 65% B (B Regular) 3.00
55% to < 60% B- (B Minus) 2.75
50% to < 55% C+ (C Plus) 2.50
45% to < 50% C (C Regular) 2.25
40% to < 45% D 2.00
< 40% F 0.00
--------------------- I Incomplete
--------------------- W Withdrawn

Orientation with Books and Studies

International Title Author Publisher

Standard
Book no.
1 Supply Chain Management Chopra Sunil and Perason Education
Strategy, Planning, and Operation Meindi Peter, Inc, Delhi

2 Logistical Management Donald, J. Bowersox Tata McGraw-Hill

& David, J. Closs, Publishing
Company Limited,
New Delhi

Course Content

Weeks Class Topics Chapter Tasks

1 1 Building A Strategic Understanding the Supply Chain
2 Framework to Analyze Supply Supply Chain Performance:
Chain Achieving Strategic FIT and Scope
2 3 Building A Strategic Supply Chain Performance:
Framework to Analyze Supply Achieving Strategic FIT and Scope
4 Chain Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics
Quiz 1
3 5 Designing The Supply Chain Designing Distribution Networks
6 Network Designing Distribution Networks
4 7 Designing The Supply Chain Network Design in the SC
8 Network Network Design in the SC
Quiz 2
5 9 Designing The Supply Chain Designing Global SC Networks
10 Network Designing Global SC Networks
6 11 Planning and Coordinating Demand Forecasting in a SC
12 Demand and Supply in a SC Aggregate Planning in a SC
Mid 1
7 13 Planning and Coordinating Aggregate Planning in a SC
14 Demand and Supply in a SC Aggregate Planning in a SC
8 15 Planning and Coordinating Sales and Operations Planning
16 Demand and Supply in a SC Sales and Operations Planning
Quiz 3
9 17 Planning and Managing Cycle Inventory
18 Inventories in a Supply Chain Safety Inventory
10 19 Planning and Managing EOQ
20 Inventories in a Supply Chain Optimal Level of Inventory
11 21 Quiz 4
22 Designing and Planning Transportation and Logistics
Transportation Networks Management in a SC
12 23 Managing Cross-Functional Sourcing Decision in a SC
24 Drivers in a Supply Chain Sourcing Decision in a SC
13 25 Mid 2
26 Managing Cross-Functional Pricing and Revenue Management
Drivers in a Supply Chain
14 27 Managing Cross-Functional Information Technology in a SC
28 Drivers in a Supply Chain Sustainability and the SC
15 29 Presentation
30 Presentation
16 31 Presentation
32 Presentation