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Supply Chain Management (MGMT90026)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Email: vbhakoo@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject is aimed at developing an advanced understanding of the principles, concepts and approaches employed in the management of supply chains between industrial, commercial, and governmental organisations. It includes the management of materials and information in trading partner relationships. It also includes cost-savings, time-to-market, new product development, and consideration of supply chain management in these and other strategic contexts. Strategic issues relevant to the management of supply chains are covered. These include management of trading partner relationships, use of information technology, configuration of logistics networks and managing international supply chains.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Understand the major factors driving the focus on more effective supply chain management practices;
- Appreciate the importance and role of inventory in determining overall supply chain performance;
- Be able to articulate the major factors that need to be considered when designing logistics networks;
- Be familiar with the theory and practice of supply chain integration;
- Understand the issues and challenges facing organisations managing activities involving trading partners in an international context;
- Understand the role and importance of information exchange in managing supply chains;
- Appreciate the strategic significance of alliances and cooperative partnering;
- Understand the need for coordinated product and process design within the firm, and between trading partners;
- Be familiar with a range of procurement and outsourcing strategies;
- Understand the role established and emerging enabling technologies are playing in re-defining the nature of trading partner relationships.
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills:
- Develop policies and guidelines for management and coordination of information flows between trading partners, and within the firm
- Be able to analyse and recommend policies for deployment of inventories in supply chains
- Discriminate between procurement and outsourcing, and make judgements about their particular application in a strategic context
- Develop frameworks for the coordination of design of products and the integration of supply chain processes that will bring these products to market
- The ability to determine the role established and emerging enabling technologies can play individually and in combination to promote supply chain integration
Last updated: 24 January 2023
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 24 January 2023
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
One group written assignment (usually in groups of 3-4)
| Week 8 | 40% |
One group presentation (usually in groups of 3-4)
| Week 10 | 10% |
End of semester examination
| During the examination period | 50% |
Last updated: 24 January 2023
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Vikram Bhakoo Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36hrs (one 3-hour seminar per week) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2023 to 28 May 2023 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2023 Census date 31 March 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2023 Assessment period ends 23 June 2023 Semester 1 contact information
Email: vbhakoo@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
Estimated total time commitment of 170 hours per semester
What do these dates mean
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- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
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Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement, and as a fail toward the completion rate, unless there are approved ‘special circumstances’.
Last updated: 24 January 2023
Further information
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Type Name Course Master of Engineering Management Course Master of Management - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 24 January 2023