Supply Chain Management
3 Credit Hours
8 WeeksPrerequisite(s): None |
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Instructor Information |
Instructor: Dr. Mario Vaccari
Email: Mario.vaccari64@mycampus.apus.edu
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Course Description (Catalog) |
TLMT 313 Supply Chain Management: This course is a study of supply chain management from the consumer back to raw materials. The entire process is studied from the standpoint of the leading theory and practice of cutting edge organizations. http://apus.campusguides.com/TLMT313 Table of Contents Course Scope |
This TLMT 313 Supply Chain Management course focuses on today’s global and increasingly competitive economy, companies (both large and small) who need to work smarter, harder, and more efficiently to remain viable and competitive. In the recent past, purchasing, logistics, finance, and shipping used to be considered separate and individual functions. This decentralized, semi integrated approach has recently been viewed as ineffective and inefficient. The current concept of Supply Chain Management involves the effective management and integration of these functions to produce and deliver a quality product to a customer at a competitive cost while realizing a good profit. Synchronizing organizational processes, functions and activities has enabled modern corporations – regardless of size – to reduce costs, increase efficiency, while at the same time maintaining the flexibility to be responsive to their client’s ever-changing needs and requirements. Purchased materials and services account for 50-75% of the cost operations in most organizations and, in some cases, 80-90% for both manufacturing and