COURSE NUMBER: EWMBA248A.1
This course is cross-listed with the Full Time MBA
Program and the College of Engineering
COURSE TITLE: Supply Chain Management
UNITS OF CREDIT: 3
INSTRUCTOR: Candace Yano
E-MAIL ADDRESS: yano@haas.berkeley.edu
CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu
MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Monday, 6:00 – 9:30PM
PREREQUISITE(S): MBA 204 or equivalent
CLASS FORMAT: A mixture of cases and lectures
REQUIRED READINGS: Course reader (cases); other materials
posted on B-Space
BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Class participation, group
assignments (case write-ups), midterm, final, small group project
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:
This course introduces you to the field of Supply Chain
Management through a series of lectures and case studies that emphasize
innovative concepts in Supply Chain Management that have proven to be
beneficial for a good number of adopters. Innovations that we will discuss include
collaborative forecasting, social media, online procurement and technologies
such as RFID. Along the way, you will learn the foundations of Supply Chain
Management and about supply chain issues that arise in a wide variety of
industries, from healthcare to consumer goods retailing (both bricks &
mortar and e-commerce) to semiconductor manufacturing. We will link supply
chain strategy to corporate strategy and see that, in many cases, the firm’s
supply chain strategy is the core of the firm’s business model. To
supplement the foundations and strategic aspects, you will also gain exposure
to analytical models that can be helpful in assessing the benefits and costs of
various innovative supply chain concepts. In summary, the course will integrate
innovation, strategy and analytics in the context of Supply Chain Management.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Candace ("Candi") Yano is a Professor in the Haas
School of Business and in the Department of Industrial Engineering and
Operations Research (IEOR) at the University of California, Berkeley,
California. She has served as Chair of the IEOR Department and is currently
Group Chair for the Operations and Information Technology Management Group at
Haas. She holds an A.B. in Economics, a M.S. in Operations Research, and a M.S.
and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University. Prior to joining
the University of California, she held positions as a Member of the Technical
Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories and as a faculty member in the Department
of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Professor Yano’s primary research interests are production,
inventory and logistics management, as well as interdisciplinary problems
involving manufacturing and marketing. She has been involved in many dozens of
research and applied projects related to Supply Chain Management with companies
including Nestle, The Gap, Applied Materials, Novellus, Gallo, Bayer, United
Airlines, Ford Motor Company, Safeway, PG&E, Facebook and Gilead Sciences.