Building Collaborative Supply Chains

Collaborative supply chain relationships deliver positive supply chain performance outcomes from improved information exchange, this in turn leads to reduction in demand uncertainty and associated costs. This course is designed to impact all industry sectors and considers the benefits of developing collaborative relationships. For many years supply chain relationships have been based on an inward-outward viewpoint and as such been highly competitive in nature. Many views have been changing and with reference to cost, we design supply chains to avoid mismatch. Many key supply chain observers have suggested it is vital to change the premise and design supply chains from outward-inward perspective. This suggests that the benefit of total integration of all business activities is ultimately aimed at satisfying the customer. During this course we will review a broad spectrum of tools, models and techniques as well as analyse current global academics working in the field of Supply chain. The aim is to understand the benefit that various relationship approaches have when creating collaborative relationships both with customers and suppliers