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Part I: Manufacturing and Operations as Competitive Weapons
1Introduction to Course and Concept and Principles of Operations Strategy
2Developing a Manufacturing and Operations Strategy
Part II: Key Elements and Decision Categories in a Manufacturing Strategy
3Introduction to Decision Categories, the Role of Technology
4The Role of Technology and Multiple Plants
5Capacity, Environmental Issues
6Facilities Strategies on a Global Basis

Comparisons of Plant Productivity
7Summary Lecture on Facilities Strategy and Globalization
8Vertical Integration
9Supplier Management: Numbers of Suppliers
10Planning and Materials
11The Logistics System and the Supply Chain
12The Supply Chain (cont.)
13Organization, Human Resources and Workforce Teams
14Information Systems, Enterprise Systems and the Impacts of the Electronic Economy

Summary of Strategic Decision Categories
Part III: Different Approaches to Manufacturing Strategy
15Introduction to Different Approaches to Competition

Competing on Costs
16Competing on Quality: Sources of Quality and Different Measures of Quality
17Competing on Features and Innovativeness: Types of Quality and the Product Development Process
18Competing on Availability and Time-based Strategies Such As Postponement
19Impacts of Flexibility on Strategic Choices
Part IV: Globalization, Outsourcing and Other Critical Issues in Operations Strategy and Policy in the 21st Century
20Power and Control and the Technology Supply Chain
21Outsourcing Strategies, Contractor-driven Paradigms, and Asian Sourcing and Globalization
22Supplier Power and Overseas Sourcing

Moving up the Value Chain in Outsourcing
23Global Cost Competitiveness, Outsourcing, and the Hollow Corporation
24Implications of Outsourcing on Competitiveness

The Role of China and Low Cost Locations
25Conclusions and Wrap Up

 








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