Supply Chain Management

Basic knowledge in the area of Management, namely its functions.

 The fundamental concepts, methods and models, illustrated with practical examples, are presented in theoretical classes fundamentally adopting the expository method.

The aim is also to promote individual and team work where students solve exercises and respond to challenges in the field of supply chain management, with analysis of the results of the work, done in class.

Contact with real cases is also promoted through contact with companies where information is collected and analyzed on the topics taught and discussed in the classroom.

The curricular unit aims to provide students with knowledge that allows them to make sustainable organizational and global supply chains. It is intended that at the end of teaching the course, students will be able to:

– Understand the complexity of the structure of a supply chain and the inherent processes

– Realize the importance of effective and efficient decision making.

– Apply the most appropriate management strategies and paradigms to make supply chains competitive,

– Measure and control the performance of supply chains

1- Business and Supply Chain Management

1.1. Fundamental concepts

1.2. Types of supply chains

1.3. Configuration of Supply networks

1.4. Organization Models

2- Operational Management of the Supply Chain

2.1. Analysis of supply chain management strategies and paradigms

2.2. Supply Chain Modeling -Logistics Operations

3- Sustainability and Risk Management of the Supply Chain

3.1. Sustainability and Supply chain

3.2. Impacts on the Value chain

3.3. Types of risk

3.4. Risk management

4- Supply Chain Performance Assessment

4.1. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

4.2. Internationalization Strategies

NAO

Fundamental

• Carvalho J.C. (2017). Logística e Gestão na Cadeia de Abastecimento,2 Ed., Ed. Sílabo, 2010, Lisboa.
• Chopra, S. & Meindl, P., (2018). Supply-Chain Management. Strategy, Planning and Operations, Pearson International Editions, 7a ed., New Jersey.

Complementary

• Simchi-Levi, D., Kaminsky, P., Simchi-Levi, E. (2007). Designing & Managing the supply chain – concepts, strategies & case studies, 3ª ed., McGraw-Hill.
• Carvalho J.C., et al., (2004). Logística, Supply Chain & Network Management. Gestão em Casos de Estudo, Ad Litteram, Lisboa.