Readings

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction to Supply Networks: Supply Chain Management

Required Readings

Simchi-Levi, et al. “Introduction to Supply Chain Management.” Chapter 1 in Designing and Managing the Supply Chain. 2002, pp. 1-21. ISBN: 0072492562.

Lee, Hau, Morris A. Cohen, Carl Cull, and Don Willen. “Saturn’s Supply-Chain Innovation: High Value in After-Sales Service.” MIT Sloan Management Review 41, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 93-101.

Suggested Readings

Kahn, G. “Made to Measure: Invisible Supplier Has Penney’s Shirts All Buttoned Up.” Wall Street Journal (September 2003): 2-5.

Lee, Hau L., and Corey Billington. “Managing Supply Chain Inventory: Pitfalls and Opportunities.” MIT Sloan Management Review 33, no. 3 (Spring 1992): 65-73.

2 Supply Chain Management: Logistics

Required Readings

McFarlane, Duncan, and Yossi Sheffi. “The Impact of Automatic Identification on Supply Chain Operations.” International Journal of Logistics Management 14, no. 1 (2003): 1-17.

Sheffi, Yossi. “RFID and the Innovation Cycle.” Research Report, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. Cambridge, MA, April 2004, p. 1.

3 Service Vision and Characteristics

Required Readings

van Biema, Michael, and Bruce Greenwald. “Managing Our Way To Higher Service-Sector Productivity.” Harvard Business Review (July-August 1997): 87-97. Reprint #97410: 87-95.

Heskett, James L., Thomas O. Jones, Gary W. Loverman, W. Earl Sasser Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger. “Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work.” Harvard Business Review (1994): 164-174. Reprint #94204.

Suggested Readings

Bitran, G. R., and M. Lojo. “A Framework for Analyzing Service Operations.” European Management Journal 11, no. 3 (1993): 271-82.

George, W. R. “Internal Marketing and Organizational Behavior: A Partnership in Developing Customer-Conscious Employees at Every Level.” Journal of Business Research 20 (January 1990): 63-70.

4 Service Encounter and Guarantees

Required Readings

Bitran, G. R., and L. Pedrosa. “A Structured Product Development Perspective on Service Operations.” European Management Journal 16, no. 2 (1998): 169-189.

Hart, Christopher W. L. and Leonard A. Schlesinger. “Guarantees Come to Professional Service Firms.” MIT Sloan Management Review 33, no. 3 (Spring 1992): 19-29.

Suggested Readings

Hart, C. “The Power of Unconditional Service Guarantees.” Harvard Business Review (July- August 1988): 54-61. Reprint #88405.

Bitran, G. R., and M. Lojo. “A Framework for Analyzing the Quality of the Customer Interface.” European Management Journal 11, no. 4 (1993): 385-96.

5 Customer Satisfaction

Required Readings

Reichheld, Frederick F., and W. Earl Sasser. “Zero Defections: Quality Comes to Services.” Harvard Business Review (September-October 1990): 105-111. Reprint #90508.

Berry, Leonard L. “Discovering the Soul of Services.” Chapter 1 in The Nine Drivers of Sustainable Business Success. Free Press, 1999, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 0684845113.

Suggested Readings

Zeithaml, Valarie A., Mary Jo. Bitner, and Dwayne D. Gremler. “The Gaps Model of Service Quality.” Services Marketing. Prentice-Hall, 2002, pp. 37-49. ISBN: 0072471425.

Garbarino, Ellen, and Mark S. Johnson. “The Different Roles of Satisfaction, Trust, and Commitment in Customer Relationships.” Journal of Marketing 63 (April 1999): 70-87.

Previous Class Readings

Bitran, G. R., and M. Lojo. “A Framework for Analyzing the Quality of the Customer Interface.” European Management Journal 11, no. 4 (1993): 385-96.

Suggested Readings

Hart, C. “The Power of Unconditional Service Guarantees.” Harvard Business Review (July- August 1988): 54-61. Reprint #88405.

Bitran, G. R., and M. Lojo. “A Framework for Analyzing the Quality of the Customer Interface.” European Management Journal 11, no. 4 (1993): 385-96.

6 Customer Retention and Loyalty

Required Readings

Urban, Glen L. “The Emerging Era of Customer Advocacy.” MIT Sloan Management Review 45, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 77-82.

Suggested Readings

Reichheld, Frederick. “Learning from Customers Defections.” Harvard Business Review (March-April 1996): 56-68. Reprint #96210.

Jones, Thomas O., and W. Earl Sasser, Jr. “Why Satisfied Customers Defect.” Harvard Business Review (November-December 1995): 89-99. Reprint #95606.

Schneider, Benjamin, and David E. Bowen. “Understanding Customer Delight and Outrage.” MIT Sloan Management Review 41, no. 1 (Fall 1999): 35-45.

7 Creating and Sustaining Excellence

Suggested Readings

Stepanek, Marcia. “Weblining.” Business Week. April 3, 2000, e.biz, pp. 26-34.

Adolf, Ruediger, Stacey Grant-Thompson, Wendy Harrington, and Marc Singer. “Current Research: What Leading Banks are Learning about Big Databases and Marketing.” McKinsey Quarterly, no. 3 (1997): 187-192.

Tax, Stephen S., and Stephen W. Brown. “Recovering and Learning from Service Failure.” MIT Sloan Management Review 40, no. 1 (Fall 1998): 75-88.

8 Matching Supply and Demand: Tug of War

Required Readings

Bitran, G. R., and S. Mondschein. “Managing the Tug-of-War Between Supply and Demand in Service Industries.” European Management Journal 15, no. 5 (1997): 524-534.

Suggested Readings

Larson, R. C. “Perspectives on Queues: Social Justice and Psychology of Queueing.” Operations Research 35, no. 6 (1987): 895-905.

Cross, R. G. “The Core Concepts of Revenue Management.” Chapter 3 in Revenue Management: Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination. Broadway Books, 1998, pp. 49-99. ISBN: 0767900332.

9 Managing a Global Service Company

Suggested Readings

Donald, William. “Omnicom Group’s Tasty Mix.” Insight From Standard and Poor, Business Week Online, November 10, 2003, pp. 1-3.

10 Introducing a New Service in a Distributed Environment

Suggested Readings

Gresham, Stephen, and Evan Cooper. “A New Definition of Service.” Chapter 3 in Attract and Retain the Affluent Investor: Winning Tactics for Today’s Financial Advisor. 2001, pp. 45-64. ISBN: 0793144337.

11 Introducing a New Service in a Distributed Environment (cont.)

Required Readings

Simchi-Levi, et al. “Inventory Management and Risk Pooling.” Chapter 3 in Designing and Managing the Supply Chain. 2002, pp. 43-90. ISBN: 0072492562.

Previous Class Readings

Lee, Hau L., and Corey Billington. “Managing Supply Chain Inventory: Pitfalls and Opportunities.” MIT Sloan Management Review 33, no. 3 (Spring 1992): 65-73. 

Suggested Readings

Kahn, G. “Made to Measure: Invisible Supplier Has Penney’s Shirts All Buttoned Up.” Wall Street Journal (September 2003): 2-5.

Lee, Hau L., and Corey Billington. “Managing Supply Chain Inventory: Pitfalls and Opportunities.” MIT Sloan Management Review 33, no. 3 (Spring 1992): 65-73.

12 Matching Supply and Demand: Procurement and Outsourcing

Required Readings

Simchi-Levi, et al. “Procurement and Outsourcing Strategies.” Chapter 7 in Designing and Managing the Supply Chain. 2002, pp. 165-190. ISBN: 0072492562.

Suggested Readings

Linder, Jane C. “Transformational Outsourcing.” MIT Sloan Management Review 45, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 52-58.

Previous Class Readings

Quinn, James Brian. “Outsourcing innovation: The new engine of growth.” MIT Sloan Management Review 41, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 13-28.

13 Matching Supply and Demand: Managing the Interface - Call Centers

Suggested Readings

Katz, Karen L., Blaire M. Larson, and Richard C. Larson. “Prescription for the Waiting in Line Blues: Entertain, Enlighten, and Engage.” MIT Sloan Management Review 32, no. 2 (Winter 1991): 44-55.

Maister, David H. “Note on the Management of Queues.” Harvard Business Review (March 17, 1995): 1-14. Reprint #9-680-053.

14 Guest Speaker Topic: The Power of Management Capital

Required Readings

Fiegenbaum, A., and V. Fiegenbaum. The Power of Management Capital: Utilizing the New Drivers of Innovation Profitability and Growth in a Demanding Global Economy. McGraw-Hill Trade, 2003. ISBN: 0070217335.

(a) “Capitalizing Management Power: Lessons from the Great Japanese Economy.” Chapter 2, pp. 17-34.

(b) “Emphasizing Quality of Management Instead of Quantity of Management.” Chapter 3, pp. 35-55.

(c) “Sustaining Business Growth by Recognizing and Reconnecting Management ‘Disconnects’.” Chapter 6, pp. 89-112.

15 Supply Chain Management: Road-mapping and Value Chain Design

Required Readings

Fine, Charles, and Daniel Whitney. “Is the Make-or-Buy decision process a core competency?” In Logistics in the Information Age. Edited by Moreno Muffato and Kulwant Pawar. Padova, Italy: Servizi Grafici Editoriali, 1999, pp. 31-63.

Fine, Charles, Roger Vardan, Robert Pethick, and Jamal El-Hout. “Rapid Response Capability in Value-Chain Design.” MIT Sloan Management Review 43, no. 2 (Winter 2002): 69-75.

Suggested Readings

Quinn, James Brian. “Outsourcing innovation: The new engine of growth.” MIT Sloan Management Review 41, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 13-28.

16 Supply Chain Management: Value of Information

Suggested Readings 

Dyer, Jeffrey H., and Nile W. Hatch. “Using Supplier Networks To Learn Faster.” MIT Sloan Management Review 45, no. 3 (Spring 2004): 1-9.

17 Information Technology Services: Internal Organization, Supplier Management, and Outsourcing  
18 Supply Chain Governance: UPS Project

Required Readings

Bitran, Gabriel, and Denis De Graeve. “Framework for the Governance in the Supply Networks of Wal-Mart: the ‘Enlightened Despot’ Model.” MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Working Paper. 2004.

Suggested Readings

Ulrich, William. “System Transformation: Revolutionalizing Supply Chain Management through Holistic Governance Structures.” 2004.

Oliver, Keith, Anne Chung, and Nick Samanich. “Beyond Utopia: The Realist’s Guide to Internet-Enabled Supply Chain Management.” Strategy+Business, no. 23. Booz-Allen publication (May 2001): 1-10.

19 Supply Chain Management: International Issues

Required Readings

Simchi-Levi, et al. “International Issues in Supply Chain Management.” Chapter 8 in Designing and Managing the Supply Chain. 2002, pp. 191-206. ISBN: 0072492562.

Suggested Readings

Dussart, Christian. “Capitalism against Capitalism: Political and Economic Implications on Marketing Practices in Europe.” In Perspectives on Marketing Management. Vol 4. Edited by M. J. Baker. 1994: 119-134. ISBN: 0471943177.

Camuffo, Arnaldo, Pietro Romano, and Andrea Vinelli. “Back to the future: Benetton transforms its global network.” MIT Sloan Management Review 43, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 46-52.

20 Course Summary and Wrap-up  

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