Overview

Significant macro and micro changes have impacted supply (purchasing) and supply chain management. The relationships of these trends to important supply can supply chain strategies, and practices are organized around eight areas that are discussed and then related to 12 critical supply areas. For each of the 12, firms should assess their current state and then establish go-forward supply and supply chain strategies to achieve firm competitiveness.

Module Objectives

In this module, the activities, content, and assignments will guide your learning process to ensure you can:

Understand benchmarking and its importance
Identify critical characteristics of effective measurement systems
Develop world-class thinking in support of competitive excellence in procurement and supply chain management
Identify key market drivers of industrial competitiveness that form a given organization’s corporate strategy
Explore the ways supply management can deliver sustainable competitive advantage
Key issues, opportunities, strategies, techniques, and developments in purchasing and supply management currently being deployed by leading organizations to achieve competitive advantage

Module To-Do List

Here's everything you need to do and remember for this module:

Review this week's resources
Post to the Current Events Summary discussion
Complete the End-of-Chapter Questions assignment
Participate in the Live Session or complete the make-up assignment
Complete the Case Analysis Checkpoint assignment