3 credit hours
This course focuses on the development of long, medium and short, long-term plans in support of the firm's global supply chain strategies, within an integrated an end-to-end unified and coordinated supply chain system. Students are exposed to concepts and models important in global supply chain planning including: supply and demand synchronization, material planning and production planning, customer logistics management, distribution requirements planning, and new product introduction. Each planning area emphasizes key financial and operational tradeoffs.