DAN638 Supply Chain Analytics

[3–0, 3 cr.]

This course presents practical applications of data analytics (descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive) in the manufacturing, trade, and service industries, in a range of supply chain management domains, including forecasting and inventory management, sales and operations planning, transportation, logistics, and fulfillment, purchasing and supply management, supply chain risk management, etc. In order to improve supply chain efficiency and business value, students learn how to identify the correct data set, ask the relevant questions, and utilize the right models and tools to create decisions that are based on facts. Product development analytics, inventory and resource management, spend analytics and supplier selection, transportation analytics, fulfillment diagnostics in logistics systems, sales and operations analytics in production, demand forecasting for new products, and supplier and product line selection are among the topics covered.