Supply Chains for Manufacturing - Inventory Analytics

Overview

Key facts

As part of the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters program, the Supply Chains for Manufacturing - Inventory Analytics Certificate, which is offered by EdX in partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MITx will expose learners to concepts and models important in supply chain and manufacturing system planning, so that you can better coordinate various resources and assets to optimize the delivery of goods, with an emphasis on key tradeoffs and phenomena. There will be a particular emphasis on how to cope with variability as it arises across a supply chain. This course is part of a MicroMasters® Program.

The course will introduce a set of operational tactics for dealing with supply chain variability, including:

• Risk pooling

• Inventory placement

• Integrated planning and collaboration

• Information sharing

• Delayed differentation

• Dual sourcing

• Smoothing

Lectures, computer exercises, and case discussions introduce various models and methods for supply chain analysis and optimization.

A supply chain entails two or more parties that are linked together by material, information and money flows. The management of a supply chain attempts to coordinate the activities of the parties so that merchandise is produced and distributed at the right quantities, to the right locations, and at the right time, in order to minimize system-wide costs while satisfying service level requirements.