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The “Advanced Supply Chain” courseware
Deepen and broaden your students’ understanding of supply chain strategy with Stempel’s “Advanced Supply Chain” courseware! This all-in-one resource helps you prepare future supply chain professionals to make strategic decisions at the corporate level and within supply chain design and operation.
For this courseware, Stempel created a new framework that outlines how companies can develop strategic supply chains, including steps for understanding the industry, creating competitive advantages, and designing the supply chain. Plus, you’ll get a full suite of educational resources to help you teach an effective course, including case studies, detailed lesson plans, auto-graded quizzes, engaging assignments, and more.
Best of all, “Introduction to Business: Best Practices & Emerging Trends” is easy to implement in your curriculum, allowing you to focus on what matters most: Your students.
What’s Inside
Table of Contents
Explores the strategic importance of supply chain management, its impact on operations and performance, and how corporate culture influences supply chain design and trade-offs.
Examines how enterprise strategy connects to supply chain strategy, creates competitive advantages, and informs the design of a strategic supply chain.
Examines the stages of supply chain network design, from sourcing to end-of-life, and explores various supply chain network archetypes.
Details the fundamentals of network management, including inventory types, forecasting, ordering policies, the bullwhip effect, and network governance.
Covers the basics of manufacturing, including intellectual property protection, quality management, and the inventory costs of production.
Explores the role of data in supply chains, focusing on data collection, storage, and effective use for optimization.
Introduces the essentials of supply chain enterprise software, including ERP systems, functional applications, EDI for data sharing, and data collection and analytics.
Examines supply chain performance metrics, from leading and lagging indicators to KPIs, benchmarking, and common metrics used to measure success.
Covers supply chain innovation, including the influence of government policies, academic research, established enterprises, start-ups, and innovation clusters on enterprise strategy.
Explores how global supply chains leverage the global economy, navigate tariffs, duties, VAT, special economic zones, trading blocs, and key trade routes.
Examines supply chain risk management, including supplier risk factors, global risks, key tools, and strategies to mitigate risk through resiliency, control, and flexibility.
Explores supply chain sustainability, focusing on resource sourcing, social responsibility, emissions management, and product lifecycle management.
Key courseware learning objectives
In this courseware, your students will ...
- Understand how supply chain design supports the broader enterprise strategy
- Determine the most important design characteristics for a given supply chain
- Make supply chain design decisions
- Create a supply chain network that supports the broader enterprise strategy
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- 14 assignments
- 12 Lesson Plans
- 12 auto-graded quizzes
- 12 lecture slide decks
- 11 case studies
- 4 Expert sessions
- 2 auto-graded exams
- 2 group projects
About the Author
A native of East Berne, New York, Nathan has had a dual career in business operations as well as military service. Nathan is the author of Stukent’s new courseware, “Advanced Supply Chain: Strategic Concepts and Case Studies.”
In business operations, Nathan is a seasoned consultant and entrepreneur. He began his career with McKinsey and Company consulting Fortune 200 companies, government organizations, and defense contractors specializing in operational efficiencies and portfolio strategies. Nathan left McKinsey to cofound Aulera, Inc., a venture-backed B2B SaaS firm that was acquired in 2022. With this successful exit, Nathan joined Blue Institute Labs, PBC as Director of the BLUE Excellerator to design a sustainable operating model and to facilitate the training and graduation of the second cohort of climate tech startups through the accelerator program. Nathan is now a senior consultant for Hidden River Group, where he advises government departments on how to create innovation ecosystems. Nathan also consults startups and small-to-medium businesses in scaling growth, designing their supply chains, and developing their distribution strategies.
In the military, Nathan has served 20 years in the U.S. Navy split between active duty and the reserves. He has served aboard nuclear-powered fast attack submarines and has operated in the Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. He has also completed a security stabilization mission to Somalia. He has conducted multinational operations and exercises with Canada, Norway, France, Great Britain, the Republic of Korea, Uganda, the United Nations, the European Union, Somalia, Non-Governmental Organizations, and all branches of the U.S. military. He has taught as an instructor in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Training Program and as a NROTC Instructor at MIT teaching Naval Weapon Systems and Naval Engineering. Nathan is currently the commanding officer of the Submarine Force Reserve Component EXPEDITIONARY MAINTENANCE UNIT out of Groton, CT.
Nathan has a master’s of engineering in supply chain management and logistics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s of engineering management from Old Dominion University, a bachelor’s of electrical engineering from Auburn University, and a bachelor’s in human resource management from The New School University. He is happily married and a proud father to two sonsa 2-year-old son!
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