Operations Management - Global Supply Chain Management

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Operations Management - Global Supply Chain Management

The world of manufacturing is becoming ever more global. In the search for lower costs, greater flexibility and reduction of local risk, operations managers are increasingly looking to source and manufacture components and services on a global scale.

Global Supply Chain Associates (GSCA)

This site is an introduction to some of the issues involved in managing global manufacturing and distribution networks.

Select Global Supply Chain Model
Read about the model by selecting the What is GSCM? link
Read through the Global Business Issues
Read through the Case Studies
Read through the Why Use GSCM? section

Assignment

Compare and contrast concentrated one-country manufacturing to distributed global manufacturing. What are the strategic and operating advantages and disadvantages?

Students may like to search for similar sites using keywords such as:

global supply chain management, lead times, order quantities, shipping, air freight, global communications

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