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ONLINE TUTORIAL 3: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Learning Objectives
Content T3.1 Essentials of the Supply and Value Chains T3.2 Computerized Systems: MRP, MRP II, SCM, and Integration T3.3 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) T3.4 E-Commerce and Supply Chains T3.5 Global Supply Chains T3.6 Issues in Supply Chain Management
After studying this tutorial, you will be able to: 1. Understand the concept of the supply chain, its importance, and management. 2. Describe the problems of managing the supply chain and identify some innovative solutions. 3. Trace the evolution of software that supports activities along the supply chain and describe MRP, MRP II, SCM software, and ERP. 4. Describe ERP and understand the relationships between ERP and SCM software. 5. Understand the relationships between e-commerce and SCM software. 6. Understand the process and issues of global supply chain management. 7. Describe current issues in SCM.
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