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Operations Management
Reflect and describe which key concepts and topics in this course have made you a stronger candidate to enter the business world.
This was one of the most valuable courses I have ever taken in my academic career as it blended the practical, pragmatic aspects of supply chain management with the powerful frameworks and concepts of Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, demand management, supply chain management and operations management. The key concepts and topics that made me a stronger candidate entering the business world include understanding the buyer-supplier relationship, how to measure it both from an efficiency and quality standpoint, and how to plan for contingences (Srinivasan, Mukherjee, Gaur, 2011). In addition the many insights gained of how to use the SCOR Model for optimizing supply chain performance, in addition to its use for mitigating risk across diverse supplier relationships (Li, Su, Chen, 2011) will be invaluable for the long-term. The focus on modeling business processes and aligning market demand to the...
The lessons learned on using Six Sigma as a means to capture and track process performance, while also keeping the entire investigative process centered on the customer (Xie, Wang, Lai, 2011) was one of the most valuable lessons learned. The biggest challenge for supply chain professionals in the 21st century will be two-fold: keeping a supply chain management process demand-driven and focused on quality over cost.
2. Discuss how this course has affected you in your professional development as a student and as a person as well as encouraging you on your academic path.
The course made what was once unfamiliar and intimidating now easily reachable and understandable, turning from theoretical information to practical knowledge. From a professional development standpoint the lessons learned…
References
W.H. Ip, S.L. Chan, & C.Y. Lam. (2011). Modeling supply chain performance and stability. Industrial Management + Data Systems, 111(8), 1332-1354.
Li, L., Su, Q., & Chen, X.. (2011). Ensuring supply chain quality performance through applying the SCOR model. International Journal of Production Research, 49(1), 33.
Srinivasan, M., Mukherjee, D., & Gaur, A.. (2011). Buyer-supplier partnership quality and supply chain performance: Moderating role of risks, and environmental uncertainty. European Management Journal, 29(4), 260.
Verdouw, C., Beulens, A., Trienekens, J., & van der Vorst, J.. (2011). A framework for modelling business processes in demand-driven supply chains. Production Planning & Control, 22(4), 365.
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