Components include transportation, warehousing inventory control and place theory. The textbooks Logistical Management and Supply Chain Management will furnish the skeleton for the course. Bus 100W, Bus 111, Bus 112. The course is an elective for the Marketing and the MIS majors, in Spring 2001. Understanding how the institutions and their management of logistics operations are being transformed by the presence of a new information technology and its future developments.
Homework assignments vary in nature.
They include case reading, summaries of field trips, Questions for chapter review, etc. A group project up to 3 student in a group will interview two related firms in a vertical market. It will document the supply chain coordination between the two firms. It will develop an XML schema for further enhancing the coordination for greater channel effectiveness. A class presentation of selected projects may be requested.