Calendar
| SES # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| Part I: Manufacturing and Operations as Competitive Weapons | |
| 1 | Introduction to Course and Concept and Principles of Operations Strategy |
| 2 | Developing a Manufacturing and Operations Strategy |
| Part II: Key Elements and Decision Categories in a Manufacturing Strategy | |
| 3 | Introduction to Decision Categories, the Role of Technology |
| 4 | The Role of Technology and Multiple Plants |
| 5 | Capacity, Environmental Issues |
| 6 | Facilities Strategies on a Global Basis Comparisons of Plant Productivity |
| 7 | Summary Lecture on Facilities Strategy and Globalization |
| 8 | Vertical Integration |
| 9 | Supplier Management: Numbers of Suppliers |
| 10 | Planning and Materials |
| 11 | The Logistics System and the Supply Chain |
| 12 | The Supply Chain (cont.) |
| 13 | Organization, Human Resources and Workforce Teams |
| 14 | Information Systems, Enterprise Systems and the Impacts of the Electronic Economy Summary of Strategic Decision Categories |
| Part III: Different Approaches to Manufacturing Strategy | |
| 15 | Introduction to Different Approaches to Competition Competing on Costs |
| 16 | Competing on Quality: Sources of Quality and Different Measures of Quality |
| 17 | Competing on Features and Innovativeness: Types of Quality and the Product Development Process |
| 18 | Competing on Availability and Time-based Strategies Such As Postponement |
| 19 | Impacts of Flexibility on Strategic Choices |
| Part IV: Globalization, Outsourcing and Other Critical Issues in Operations Strategy and Policy in the 21st Century | |
| 20 | Power and Control and the Technology Supply Chain |
| 21 | Outsourcing Strategies, Contractor-driven Paradigms, and Asian Sourcing and Globalization |
| 22 | Supplier Power and Overseas Sourcing Moving up the Value Chain in Outsourcing |
| 23 | Global Cost Competitiveness, Outsourcing, and the Hollow Corporation |
| 24 | Implications of Outsourcing on Competitiveness The Role of China and Low Cost Locations |
| 25 | Conclusions and Wrap Up |
