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.