• Understanding the supply chain
-What is a supply chain
-Decision phases in a supply chain
-Process view of a supply chain
-The importance of supply chain flows
-Examples of supply chains
-Summary of learning objectives

• Supply chain performance : achieving strategic fit and scope
-Competitive and supply chain strategies
-Achieving strategic
-Expanding strategic scope
-Summary of learning objectives

• Supply Chain Drivers and obstacles
-Drivers of supply Chain performance
-A framework for structuring drivers
-Facilities
-Inventory
-Transportation
-Information
-Obstacles to achieving strategic fit
-Summary of learning objectives

• Designing the Distribution Network in a supply Chain
-The role of distribution in the supply chain
-Factors influencing distribution network design
-Design options for a distribution network
-The value of distributors in the supply chain
-Distribution networks in practice
-Summary of learning objectives

• Network Design in the supply chain
-The role of network design in the supply chain
-Factors influencing network design decisions
-A framework for network design decisions
-Models for facility location and capacity allocation
-Making network design decisions in practice
-Summary if learning objectives

• Network Design in an uncertain Environment
-The impact of uncertainty on network design
-Discounted cash flow analysis
-Representations of uncertainty
-Evaluating network design decisions using decision trees
-AM Tires: Evaluation of supply chain design decisions under uncertainty
-Making Supply Chain Decisions under Uncertainty in Practice
-Summary of learning objectives