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Service Supply Chain Management (MGMT90273)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable (login required)(opens in new window)
Contact information
August
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Dr Buddhika Mannaperuma b.mannaparuna@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | August - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject will focus on fundamentals and core elements of service supply chains. The subject will provide an introduction to supply chains in services, outlines differences from product-based supply chains; emphasize understanding of how supply chains interact with people for delivery of services and different approaches for incorporating people, process, and technology; analyse industry-specific service supply chains; discuss innovations in service supply chains; and present emerging and futuristic trends in service supply chains.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Evaluate the key elements of service supply chains and their combined impact on outcomes
- Identify the choices concerning the service supply chain performance parameters and their relationships to other supply chain elements
- Evaluate the strategic and operational requirements of service supply chains
- Critically evaluate and implement different approaches to service supply chains
- Identify and evaluate the impacts of service supply chains innovations
Generic skills
After completing this subject, students will be able to:
- Communicate effectively about key ideas and theories
- Identify and critically analyse strategic problems and decisions
- Enhance critical thinking in relation to the effectiveness of solutions
- Decompose and resolve complex problems
Last updated: 9 April 2024
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: 9 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Reflection on online discussion board participation (Requires participation in discussion activities in all four weeks)
| End of the teaching period | 10% |
Multiple choice quizzes (3 x 15-minute quizzes)
| Throughout the teaching period | 30% |
Written assignment (1500-2000 words)
| End of the assessment period | 60% |
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Dates & times
- August - Online
Coordinator Buddhika Mannaperuma Mannaperuma Mudiyanselage Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 85 hours Pre teaching start date 12 August 2024 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period students are given the opportunity to get used to the online platform and become familiar with how to access resources before the teaching period starts. Teaching period 19 August 2024 to 15 September 2024 Last self-enrol date 13 August 2024 Census date 23 August 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 13 September 2024 Assessment period ends 22 September 2024 August contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Dr Buddhika Mannaperuma b.mannaparuna@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
28 hours of case study analysis and 35 hours of online activities, participation in simulations and other related analyses of supply chain challenges
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 9 April 2024