210709 Monitor, Measure and Evaluate Supply Chain Performance
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Credit points: 6 cp
Subject level:
Postgraduate
Result type: Grade and marksThere are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Description
The supply chain is the backbone of any modern business as it facilitates the delivery of products or services from suppliers through to customers. For delivery to be smooth, efficient, and consistent, supply chain metrics must be critically monitored, measured and evaluated. In this subject, learners study cost and non-cost perspectives of supply chain performance measures and associated frameworks. They learn business operations methods and metrics that can be leveraged in the process of monitoring, measuring and evaluating supply chain performance and critically analyse these methods and metrics. Gaining confidence with supply chain monitoring, measurement and evaluation prepares students to optimise supply chain performance.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
| 1. | Develop foundational knowledge of existing supply chain performance frameworks |
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| 2. | Implement supply chain management frameworks to monitor the performance of organisations' systems and processes |
| 3. | Apply business operations methods and develop key metrics to measure supply chain performance in different domains including Indigenous perspectives |
| 4. | Evaluate methods and approaches used in supply chain performance management and recommend improvements |
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
Competition is moving from organisations to supply chains. Effective and efficient business operations within and across supply chains should be measured, monitored, and assessed. This subject provides you with the knowledge to ass a variety of measures appropriate to assess and measure supply chain performance. The subject teaches you to apply various frameworks and models to assist in understanding the complex and nested approach to establishing appropriate supply chain metrics. Building skills in the critical analysis of supply chain performance will allow learners to apply the theoretical underpinning of quality management to conduct supply chain management performance and identify areas of improvement.
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 a variety of formats (lecture slides, notes, webinars, videos, articles, real case studies) online and learner-led dialogue through online discussions and posts, and interactions via Canvas. 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 and media articles, research and identify innovative models and effective techniques applicable to supply chain performance management.
- By conducting self-paced study, learners contribute to the discussions on the influence of strategic and sustainable sourcing strategies on firm 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 and summative feedback will be provided to all learners and will take several forms, including quizzes during the independent learning activities and online collaborative sessions to support and enhance learner performance outcomes via assessments.
Content (topics)
- Foundational knowledge of existing supply chain performance frameworks
- Supply Chain Business Scenarios – business to business, and business to consumer - business operations methods, practices and processes and their constituents
- Cost and non-cost performance measures
- Monitor the performance of organisations’ systems and processes
- Develop key metrics to measure supply chain performance in different domains, including Indigenous perspectives
- Evaluate methods and approaches used in supply chain performance management and recommend improvements
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Online discussions/portfolio (Individual)
| Intent: | 5% per week |
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| Objective(s): | This addresses subject learning objective(s): 1, 3 and 4 |
| Weight: | 30% |
| Length: | 150 words max |
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Assessment task 2: Performance metrics Literary review (Individual)
| Objective(s): | This addresses subject learning objective(s): 1, 2, 3 and 4 |
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| Weight: | 40% |
| Length: | 1000 words, excluding references |
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Assessment task 3: Performance Management Plan (Individual)
| Objective(s): | This addresses subject learning objective(s): 1, 2 and 3 |
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| Weight: | 30% |
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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.