
Students will learn core SC-related concepts including time-based inventory management, warehousing, transportation and distribution systems design, facility location decision process, and information handling in SC operations as competitive advantages in service-based emerging economies. SCs are concerned with the efficient integration of suppliers, factories, warehouses and stores so that products are distributed to customers in the right quantity and at the right time. One of the primary objectives is to minimize the total supply chain cost subject to various service requirements. SCs are responsible for, now on a global scale, the delivery of valueadded goods/services in any organization – public or private, and profit or non-profit.
The course explores important supply chain metrics, primary tradeoffs in making supply chain decisions, and basic tools for effective and efficient supply chain management, production planning and inventory control, order fulfillment and supply chain coordination. We will also investigate topics such as global supply chain design, logistics, and outsourcing, several other recent supply chain innovations".


The general objective of the course is to provide the student with knowledge and tools that allow them to make appropriate decisions regarding the incorporation of IT's in a company. It is not intended that the participants become specialists in Management Information Systems, but rather that as managers of a company understand their requirements and be able to incorporate and use them to benefit the general objectives of the business.
The course will be developed in an active way, for which the highest participation of the students is expected in terms of the exchange of experiences and points of view of each one in relation to the objectives of the course.