COURSE
NUMBER: MBA248A.1
This course is cross-listed with
EWMBA and the College of Engineering
COURSE
TITLE: Supply Chain Management
UNITS OF
CREDIT: 3.0
INSTRUCTOR:
Candace Yano
E-MAIL
ADDRESS: yano@haas.berkeley.edu
CLASS WEB
PAGE LOCATION: http://bspace.berkeley.edu
MEETING
DAY(S)/TIME: Mondays 6:00 – 9:30PM
PREREQUISITE(S):
MBA 204 or equivalent
CLASS FORMAT: A mixture of cases and lectures
REQUIRED
READINGS: Textbook (free e-book on B-Space) as a reference; course reader
(cases); other materials posted on B-Space
BASIS FOR
FINAL GRADE: Class participation, group assignments (case writeups), 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.