Postgraduate - UnitMGX5691 - Sustainable operations and supply chain management

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2013 (Evening)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Dayna Simpson

Synopsis

This unit integrates concepts from both operations and supply chain management toward strategic goals of more sustainable production systems. By combining recent theory and practical examples, this unit provides students with tools that allow companies to reduce their overall resource use, manage their social and environmental risks at the extended enterprise level and design products and processes toward sustainable resource use. Specific topics include management systems for risk reduction and compliance, sustainable transport and distribution, closed-loop issues, mid-tier value chains, extended enterprise issues (e.g. certification and monitoring of suppliers), supplier development, technology protection and ethics. Topics are addressed from predominantly design and behavioural perspectives.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

understand the environmental and social implications of global production and distribution
recognise and implement more sustainable design in processes and products
understand the implications of sustainability for organisational survival and the role that operations plays in facilitating sustainability
understand the technological and behavioural dimensions of sustainable process and product innovation
understand the application of these dimensions in local, regional and global supply chains.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Dayna Simpson

Contact hours

3 hours per week