210707 Supply Chain Risk and Disruption Management

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UTS: Business
Credit points: 6 cp

Subject level:

Postgraduate

Result type: Grade and marks

There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.

Description

External environment factors have forced supply chain leaders to increasingly take decisive actions, adapting effectively to new ways of working and enhancing their risk-management capabilities. In this subject, students learn how to deal with risks and disruptions in supply chains, especially in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. Students identify potential risks and hazards that can arise in a supply chain in different contexts and how to manage these risks. They apply different models and strategies to manage various risks and disruptions arising from VUCA, develop a portfolio of skills to use in such scenarios, and develop a risk management framework that can be applied in the design of a resilient supply chain network.

Subject learning objectives (SLOs)

Upon successful completion of this subject students should be able to:

1.	Critically analyse the VUCA environment and its implications on business operations, supply chains and managing different types of risks
2.	Apply models for risk management to local and global supply chains
3.	Integrate knowledge of complex supply chain management concepts and domains, including Indigenous perspectives, to develop a risk management framework for a case study implementation
4.	Evaluate and analyse the importance of supply chain resilience to risk and disruption management

Contribution to the development of graduate attributes

Managing supply chains in a VUCA environment is a challenging task for practitioners. Designing and implementing a proper supply chain risk management framework can help practitioners to build resiliency. This subject provides you with the knowledge to assess various tools and approaches for supply chain risk and disruption management. This subject teaches supply chain resilience, risk management framework, disruption management techniques, recovery planning, and uncertainty modelling so that learners can apply those to solve supply risk management problems. Building skills in critical analysis and decision-making in supply chain risk and disruption management will allow learners to gain technical and commercial capabilities in professional practice.

This subject contributes to the development of the following graduate attributes:

Professional and technical competence

Teaching and learning strategies

This subject is delivered online using a range of resources, self-directed study and live interactive sessions with the academic. Learners engage in the essential content through various formats (lecture slides, notes, webinars, videos, articles, real case studies) online and learner-led dialogue through online discussions, posts, and interactions. The teaching and learning strategies have been designed to enable learners to make progress in their achievement and maximise their accomplishment of the learning outcomes. Various teaching and learning strategies adopted are as follows:

Learners will be expected to read all the assigned readings, reports, and articles, research and identify innovative tools and approaches applicable to risk and disruption management that result in enhanced supply chain performance.
By conducting self-paced study, learners contribute to the discussions on the influence of risk management strategies on supply chain performance. This will enhance learners’ ability to progress successfully throughout the subject and complete all assessment items effectively.
The online sessions will provide opportunities for group activities and discussion, self-assessment, peer review and formative feedback from the subject facilitator. Online collaborative sessions with the facilitator will be conducted at a set time.
Formative feedback will be provided to all learners and will take several forms, including online collaborative sessions and assessment feedback to support and enhance learner performance.

Content (topics)

Introduction to supply chain resilience
Analysing risk factors and general strategies
Developing risk management framework
Sudden disruption management
Global logistics and risk management
Managing uncertainty in supply chain, life cycle risk

Assessment

Assessment task 1: SC Risk Analysis Brief (Individual)

Objective(s):	This addresses subject learning objective(s): 1 and 2
Weight:	30%
Criteria:	Quality and rigor of research conducted in the investigation of the supply chain risk factors and management strategies Critical analysis and explanation of potential impacts of risk factors Justification of the benefits of applying different strategies

Assessment task 2: Supply Chain Risk management framework (Individual)

Objective(s):	This addresses subject learning objective(s): 2, 3 and 4
Weight:	50%
Length:	1000 words, excluding references
Criteria:	Depth and rigor of analysis applied in developing the supply chain risk management framework Explanation of how different strategies are analysed and mapped in the framework Clarity of communication and cohesion of the report

Assessment task 3: Critical reflection brief (Individual)

Objective(s):	This addresses subject learning objective(s): 1, 2 and 4
Weight:	20%
Length:	500 words, excluding references
Criteria:	Depth of analysis conducted to demonstrate the use of different supply chain risk management tools in the global logistics supply chain Critical analysis and reflection on potential applications in global logistics supply chain risk management Clarity of communication and cohesion of the report

Minimum requirements

Learners must achieve at least 50% of the subject’s total marks.

Required texts

There is no prescribed textbook required.

References

Resources from various sources will be used throughout the course.