MAT006 - Supply Chain Modelling
Catalogue Entry
The Supply Chain Modelling module aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of advanced contemporary supply chain modelling techniques. Students will also be provided with a comprehensive knowledge of supply chain dynamics and their impact upon competitiveness. It is taught using theoretical and experiential approaches appropriate to an MSc audience and draws upon the latest management and analysis techniques. It develops, applies and consolidates learning by solving problems related to the real supply chains. Specifically it aims to develop an advanced understanding of:
- the relevance and importance to organisations of supply chain dynamics
- strategies, methods, tools and techniques for understanding and documenting supply chains
- simulation and analytical approaches to investigate the impact of supply chain structure and replenishment rule design on
the dynamic and economic performance of supply chains
- the role of, and barriers to, collaboration, co-ordination and supply chain re-design strategies.
Semester
Spring
Lecturer
Dr S Disney (Cardiff Business School)
Recommended Books
The following books are recommended texts for this module:-
Chorpa, S. and Meindal, P., (2007) “Supply chain management: Strategy, planning and operation”, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
Disney, S.M. and Lambrecht, M.R., (2008), “On replenishment rules, forecasting and the bullwhip effect in supply chains”, Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp 1-80.
Disney, S.M., (2008) “Supply chain aperiodicity, bullwhip and stability analysis with Jury’s Inners”, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp101-116.
Disney, S.M., Farasyn, I., Lambrecht, M.R., Towill, D.R. and van de Velde, W., (2007) “Controlling bullwhip and inventory variability with the golden smoothing rule”, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp241-265.
Holweg, H., Disney, S.M., Holmström, J. and Småros, J., (2005), “Supply chain collaboration: Making sense of the strategy continuum”, European Management Journal, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp170-181.
Dejonckheere, J., Disney, S.M., Lambrecht, M.R. and Towill, D.R., (2004), “The impact of information enrichment on the bullwhip effect in supply chains: A control engineering perspective”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 153, No. 3, pp727-750.
Morecroft, J., (2007) “Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A feedback systems approach”, John Wiley & Sons, UK.
Sterman, J., (2000), “Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modelling for a Complex World”, McGraw Hill Higher Education, USA. ISBN 0-07-231135-5.
Other materials will be given to the students by the lecturer to support students as required.