| Part I: Manufacturing and Operations as Competitive Weapons |
| 1 |
Introduction to Course and Concept and Principles of Operations Strategy |
| 2 |
Developing a Manufacturing and Operations Strategy |
| Part II: Key Elements and Decision Categories in a Manufacturing Strategy |
| 3 |
Introduction to Decision Categories, the Role of Technology |
| 4 |
The Role of Technology and Multiple Plants |
| 5 |
Capacity, Environmental Issues |
| 6 |
Facilities Strategies on a Global Basis
Comparisons of Plant Productivity |
| 7 |
Summary Lecture on Facilities Strategy and Globalization |
| 8 |
Vertical Integration |
| 9 |
Supplier Management: Numbers of Suppliers |
| 10 |
Planning and Materials |
| 11 |
The Logistics System and the Supply Chain |
| 12 |
The Supply Chain (cont.) |
| 13 |
Organization, Human Resources and Workforce Teams |
| 14 |
Information Systems, Enterprise Systems and the Impacts of the Electronic Economy
Summary of Strategic Decision Categories |
| Part III: Different Approaches to Manufacturing Strategy |
| 15 |
Introduction to Different Approaches to Competition
Competing on Costs |
| 16 |
Competing on Quality: Sources of Quality and Different Measures of Quality |
| 17 |
Competing on Features and Innovativeness: Types of Quality and the Product Development Process |
| 18 |
Competing on Availability and Time-based Strategies Such As Postponement |
| 19 |
Impacts of Flexibility on Strategic Choices |
| Part IV: Globalization, Outsourcing and Other Critical Issues in Operations Strategy and Policy in the 21st Century |
| 20 |
Power and Control and the Technology Supply Chain |
| 21 |
Outsourcing Strategies, Contractor-driven Paradigms, and Asian Sourcing and Globalization |
| 22 |
Supplier Power and Overseas Sourcing
Moving up the Value Chain in Outsourcing |
| 23 |
Global Cost Competitiveness, Outsourcing, and the Hollow Corporation |
| 24 |
Implications of Outsourcing on Competitiveness
The Role of China and Low Cost Locations |
| 25 |
Conclusions and Wrap Up |