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Designing Supply Chains (MGMT90255)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Not available in 2026
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This subject is focused on the core elements of supply chain designs, including capacity, technology, facility location, coordination and the achievement of quality, flexibility and cost management. It will include treatment of the trade-offs and synergies between performance outcomes of cost, quality, delivery performance, flexibility and innovativeness, and the sustainability of supply chain design choices. It will cover the advanced technology choices associated with supply chain network design, and the international location and sourcing decisions, of offshoring and reshoring. Current opportunities of undertaking innovations in supply chain choices will be examined and evaluated.
Intended learning outcomes
After completing this subject, students will be able to:
- Evaluate the key elements of supply chain designs and their combined impact on outcomes
- Identify the choices concerning the supply chain performance parameters and their relationships to design elements
- Evaluate the strategic and operational requirements of advanced supply chain technologies
- Critically evaluate different approaches to supply network designs, and trade-offs therein
- Identify and evaluate the impacts of supply chain improvements and innovations
Generic skills
- Communicate effectively about supply chain analytic models
- Build analytics models and solve these to gain managerial insights
- Effectively create written reports
- Identify and decompose business problems
Last updated: 19 November 2025