Importance of effective Supply Chain Management in achieving Organisational Objectives and its link

Key drivers for an integrated supply chain strategy

Explain the importance of effective supply chain management in achieving organisational objectives

Explain the link between supply chain management and business functions in an organisation

Discuss the key drivers for achieving an integrated supply chain strategy in an organisation

Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies used by an organisation to maintain supplier relationships 

Use information technology to create strategies to develop an organisation’s relationship with its suppliers

Develop systems to maintain an organisation’s relationship with its suppliers 

The module focuses on how the concept of supply chain management and logistics is based on the idea that every product that reaches an end user represents the combined effort of multiple organisations which make up the supply chain and that until recently, most organisations paid attention to only what was happening within their own business. Few organisations understood, much less managed, the entire chain of activities that ultimately delivered products to the final customer. This resulted in ineffective supply chains.

The module aims to provide students with the understanding and skills to plan strategies to improve an organisation’s supply chain.

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

Learning Outcome 1: Understand the relationship between supply chain management (SCM) and organisational business objectives

Learning Outcome 2: Be able to use information technology to optimise supplier relationships in an organisation

Learning Outcome 3: Understand the role of information technology in supply chain management

Learning Outcome 4: Understand the role of logistics and procurement in supply chain management

Learning Outcome 5: Be able to plan a strategy to improve an organisation’s supply chain

A progress report is to be carried out on week 8 or 9 of the module delivery (see table above). During this progress report, the student must have completed a minimum of half the assessment brief (assignments/coursework’s/projects/tutorials only) which should be run through their Turnitin drop boxes and sent to their respective module tutors to assess and provide feedback. This will help the student to gain a better perspective of the progression of their assignment and help them to generate a good academic piece of work which has a consequently lower similarity index.

Feedback will be delivered to you either through your Moodle page or be given to you verbally.

Should you as a student or should your module tutor feel the need to have any additional classes or conduct any revision sessions, you must inform your course coordinator at least three weeks prior to the end of the module in order for arrangements to be made.

This can be done by sending an email through your class representative and thus the course coordinator will see to it that the necessary arrangements are made.

In order to support your learning process and provide you with the adequate resources to fully comprehend this module, a list of additional reading materials have been made available for your utilization