COURSE INFORMATION
Course Title: GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Code Course Type Regular Semester Theory Practice Lab Credits ECTS
BAF 356 D 6 3 0 0 3 6
Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: Uğur Ergün
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours: NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours: NA
Language: English
Compulsory/Elective: Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Course Description: This course covers international purchasing or sourcing, advantages and the barriers of purchasing internationally, global sourcing, procurement technology, and purchasing processes. This course also presents an international framework for SCM that requires cross-functional integration of key business processes within the firm and across the network of firms that comprise the supply chain. This course approaches SCM from a managerial perspective and introduces concepts in a format useful for management decision making. Basic terms, concepts, and principles are examined in light of how they interrelate and interface within the firm and across the supply chain.
Course Objectives: To provide: - An understanding of the individual processes of international supply chain management and their interrelationships within individual companies and across the supply chain - An understanding of the tools and techniques useful in implementing supply chain management
COURSE OUTLINE
Week Topics
1 History and Theories of Trade
2 International Supply Chains
3 Design of Supply Chains
4 Operations of International Supply Chains
5 Impacts and Alternative Visions for Supply Chains
6 International Supply Chain Infrastructure
7 Logistics and Purchasing in International Supply Chains
8 Midterm Exam
9 Operations in International Supply Chains
10 Market Channels in International Supply Chains
11 Managing International Supply Chains
12 The technical and business challenges in managing inventories
13 Logistic and Procurement
14 Warehouse Transport
Prerequisite(s):
Textbook: Mangan, J., Lalwani, C., and Butcher, T., Global Logistics & Supply Chain Management, John Wiley, 2008.
Other References: Global Logistics Management, a competitive Advantage for the 21 st Century, Kent N. Gourdin, Blackwell Publishing, 2 nd Ed, (ISBN: 9781405127134) Joel D. Wisner, Keah-Choon Tan, G. Keong Leong (2012) Principles of Supply Chain Management, Third edition, South-Western, a part of Cengage Learning ISBN 13: 978-0-538-47546-4
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others: No
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1 For students to gain a multi-faceted perspective on the International dimensions of today’s business operations through understanding how modern, International Supply Chains and logistics networks operate.
2 For students to understand the multi-disciplinary facets of how an international supply chain can be viewed, analyzed, and operated.
3 For students to explain multiple key social science theories and popular perspectives on the history, geography, structure and ethics of trade, and apply them to the analysis of supply chain.
4 Equipment with some of the latest quantitative management techniques
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES
(Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)
No Program Competencies Cont.
Bachelor in Banking and Finance (3 years) Program
1 The students are gained the ability to look at the problems of daily life from a broader perspective. They gain the needed skills not only to understand economic problems in banking and finance but also to construct a model and defend in meaningful way. 5
2 They have knowledge about the finance and banking. 5
3 They have knowledge about the money and banking. 5
4 They have knowledge about the international finance and banking. 4
5 They have ability to use mathematical and statistical methods in banking and finance. 4
6 They know how to use computer programs in both daily office usage and statistical data evaluations in banking and finance department. 5
7 They have necessary banking and finance skills that needed in private and public sector. 4
8 They are intended to be specialist in one of departmental fields that they choose from the list of general economics, finance economics, public finance, corporate finance, finance management, international finance markets and institutions, banking and central banking, international finance and banking, money and banking, international trade and banking. 4
9 They have ability to utilize fundamental economic theories and tools to solve economic problems in banking and finance. 5
10 They are aware of the fact that banking and finance is a social science and they respect the social perspectives and social values of the society’s ethics. 5
COURSE EVALUATION METHOD
Method Quantity Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)
1
25
Project
1
20
Case Study
1
15
Final Exam
1
35
Attendance
5
Total Percent: 100%
ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)
Activities Quantity Duration(Hours) Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) 16 4 64
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 16 2 32
Mid-terms 1 12 12
Assignments 0
Final examination 1 16 16
Other 1 26 26
Total Work Load:
150
Total Work Load/25(h):
6
ECTS Credit of the Course:
6