Supply Chain Transportation and Facility Design


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Overview/Description
Fundamental to virtually all supply chains are questions related to an organization's transportation and facility networks. In order to remain competitive, an organization must ensure that its transportation and facility networks are designed in such a manner as to be cost effective without sacrificing customer responsiveness. In this course, you will learn about the role of transportation in a supply chain, including modes of transportation and transportation network design and decisions. You will also learn about facility decisions and the factors that affect them, as well as the steps involved in redesigning an existing network.

Target Audience
Managers, team leaders, implementers, project managers, and coaches who are considering developing SCM systems in their organizations

Expected Duration (hours)
4.5

Lesson Objectives

Transportation Network Design in a Supply Chain

  • recognize the benefits of implementing an effective transportation network design within an organization's supply chain.
  • associate the roles of a transportation network to an organization's supply chain practices that represent each.
  • match each of the supply chain transportation modes to its relative speed and cost.
  • determine the best mode of transportation for a supply chain in a given scenario.
  • associate the considerations for designing a transportation network to the impact they would have on an organization's supply chain.
  • identify supply chain practices that represent the two basic transportation network designs.
  • determine the most effective transportation network design for an organization's supply chain in a given scenario.
  • Supply Chain Facility Network Design

  • recognize the benefits of implementing a well-designed facility network within a supply chain.
  • identify the four decisions an organization should make to design an effective supply chain facility network.
  • match the factors influencing facility network design to examples of each.
  • use the factors influencing facility network design to implement an effective network design in a given scenario.
  • sequence the steps for making effective facility network design decisions.
  • match areas in which changes may necessitate redesign of a facility network to activities that represent each.
  • Course Number:
    OPER0505