LSM 8I00 Supply Chain Management Strategy

The specific objectives of the course are:
1. To understand the impact of supply chain management on the success and profitability of today's business organization.
2. To explain the influence of integrated chain management on major functional activities, including purchasing, product design, information systems, manufacturing planning, forecasting, sales, quality management and marketing; and
3. To explore the major challenges faced in implementing an integrated supply chain management strategy, as well as approaches for meeting these challenges.

LSM 8102 Inventory Management

This course aims to provide the student with state-of-the-art knowledge of inventory management theory and practice. Topics included will be as follows: materials management; management of storage and retrieval facilities; types of inventory problems; measuring inventory performance; inventory management systems for independent demand items; influence of forecasts and uncertainties of demand and lead time; dependent demand inventory systems; multi-echelon inventory management; decision models for inventory management; simulation models of inventory management systems; and case studies of world-class inventory management.

LSM 8103 Transport Logistics Management

This course provides the student with state-of-the-art knowledge of management systems relating to the transportation of products within manufacturing plants and their distribution to the market. Topics covered will include: location analysis; location planning; layout planning; transportation systems in manufacturing plants; managing the distribution of finished products; optimum vehicle routing techniques; and achieving high quality delivery performance.

LSM 8105 Management of Process Innovation

A key concern of contemporary technology management is improving the rate and quality of process innovation by adopting new methods to successfully integrate environmental, human, organisational and technological factors. This subject introduces the student to the interdependent human and technological character of work systems and provides principles and methodologies for designing more effective organisations. This subject is focused on the 'design' aspects of process innovation and covers in some detail socio-technical system design.

LSM 8106 Production and Operations Management

This subject is a study of the design and operations of activities for the production of goods and services. Topics include: qualitative and quantitative forecasting, production planning, scheduling, management of quality and productivity, project management and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). Emphasis will be placed on a comparison of Japanese production and quality management methods with traditional Western methods, total quality management (TQM), computer aided manufacturing (CAM), and implications for human resource management.

LSM 8107 Procurement Policy and Management

In most leading firms today, the function that used to be called purchasing, or procurement, has expanded to become Supply Management. This subject looks at the expanded responsibility of procurement and its integration with long-term strategic corporate planning. Procurement now includes participating collaboratively in key material requirements determinations and supplier qualification; and focuses on the management of supplier relations and performance. This subject incorporates all these areas in the development of procurement and supply chain management.

BUS 8018 International Business Management

This course brings together the competencies needed for effective management of global operations. Emphasises not only management functions and behaviours necessary in developing effective global management skills at both organisational and individual level, but also highlights some of the strategic insights needed for the managerial role in the twenty first century. Explores cultural issues in international management, strategic models, management approaches in international joint ventures, global managerial ethics, paradigms of human resource deployment, global production, quality and other related issues.

LSM 8108 Global Business & Logistics

The course examines transportation as part of the logistics process. It also looks at transport economic theories, carriers - service, selection, pricing, freight and negotiation rates, liabilities, regulation and planning. Topics also include modes of transportation and the Government's role. Intermodel transportation and systems - national and international, transportation and global economy, trends in transportation technology and the goal of seamless transportation.

BUS 7900 Research Methodology

It covers the theory and practice of research, and covers topics such as defining a research question, sampling, measurement, research design and data analysis.