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Operations and Supply Chain Management

The Operations and Supply Chain Management is part of the larger series of short courses on Operations Management. The first one was Product and Service Management, but this is a modular series, so that you can easily learn various aspect of Operations Management.

The supply chain is a network of operations running across an organization, which are needed to design, make, deliver, and service products or services for customers. Production, inventory, location, transportation, and information are performance drivers that can be managed to produce the capabilities for a given supply chain.

As a part of their overall strategy, organizations also employ many supply chain strategies to survive and compete in a dynamic and competitive marketplace. However, it is also essential from an organization's point of view to use effective performance measures to ensure continuous improvement of the supply chain and also to set directions of its current supply chain strategies.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • sequence the components of the supply chain,
  • identify the key drivers of supply chain management,
  • identify the characteristics of supply chain management in service organizations,
  • match supply chain strategies of service organizations with their key characteristics,
  • identify criteria for selecting and combining different supply chain strategies, and
  • match supply chain areas with key indicators of their performance.

You will have not much more than 2 hours of video lessons, written documents, quizzes, examples and exercises, and a small course project.

This course provides a basic understanding of supply chain management in manufacturing and service organizations. Key characteristics of common supply chain strategies and criteria for their selection are also presented. This course also introduces key performance metrics for supply chain management.

Anyone working in operations management or another functional area, who is looking to gain a working understanding of the operations functions in a service or manufacturing organization will benefit from this course.

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Instructor Sorin Dumitrascu
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Language English
Subjects Business IT & Networking
Tags Business Operations

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Loved the way Jeremy and Vivek had conversations in between to help us understand the concepts of supply chain management more effectively.

good explanation about supply chain management and its really very helpful.

the power point style is disturbing and not good for the eye its annoying The flow of items from the Supplier to the Customer and the flow of cash from Customer to Supplier are critical aspects of the organization to be managed which Supply Chain Management foster.

Everything I needed to know about the fundamentals and how to understand supply chain management I found on this practical course!

The instructor did a great job in helping me to better understand Supply Chain Management in such a short time period.

Interesting course, especially the Section 3 Supply Chain Management in Service Organizations.

As a introductory course it offers lot of details to develop interest in supply chain management.

It gave a holistic view of how money, information and goods flow within different stages of supply chain management.

You will receive good knowledge about supply chain management.

If you have any experience in supply chain management, skip this course.

Useful short course on supply chain management.

good clear course very good so far Really enjoy this experience It's been very informative for someone who has very little knowledge of supply chain management This course is amazing and easy Really good Great course.

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This course is very helpful to understand and learn to the full process of operations and supply chain management.

After being away from Operations and Supply Chain Management for over several years Mr.Dumitrascu was able to keep me interested and focused on the learning of the material.

If you are looking for in depth information on Operations and Supply Chain, this is not the right course for you.

The instructor did well in explaining the use of operations and supply chain management in the process and workflow management in a corporation or in the company.

At all times remember effective Operations and Supply Chain Management are crucial to success.

Very good background and advice for operations and supply chain management.

Excellent for Operations and Supply Chain Management exam preparations, waiting for more topics.

everything was straight to the point, i think the course itself is straigtfoward very useful and enjoining as well , not like other courses Yes, it was very helpful to understand the operations and supply chain management principles.

More knowledge about operations and supply chain management.

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very helpful

The course presentation was good and the materials were very helpful.

It was very helpful and informative lecture.

I am starting a business and this is very helpful for me to understand what to do first and second and after that.

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too fast

the course was really helpful and enlightening but video was too fast.

Thanks Learning materials are very useful.but too fast Yes, it is a good match for me because learning the various components of supplier channel and their various interaction is what we see daily but rarely connect their activities Operations management is usually heavy on mathematical analysis and is mostly only applicable to large operations.

A good course, but the tutor is a little too fast.

The video is too fast and the concepts are not detailed and vanishes very fast.

The speed of the presentation is too fast.

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Supply Chain Analysis $68k

Supply Chain Analyst, Supply Chain Development Program $80k

Supply Chain Scheduler $87k

Supply Chain 1 $88k

Supply Chain Accountant $92k

Supply Chain Planner 4 $105k

Supply Chain Dev $105k

Supply Chain 3 $120k

Regional Supply Chain $121k

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Rating 4.1 based on 242 ratings
Length 1.5 total hours
Starts On Demand (Start anytime)
Cost $14
From Udemy
Instructor Sorin Dumitrascu
Download Videos Only via the Udemy mobile app
Language English
Subjects Business IT & Networking
Tags Business Operations

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