34440 - Value Stream Management (Graduate Course) (A-K)

Learning outcomes

Class participants will be challenged to acquire skills related to the vertical relationships which lead to the accomplishment of three course goals:

1) understand their strategic importance;

2) acquire some technical and managerial competences in order to take strategic decision

3) develop some organizational competences for managing these relations.

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Course contents

The course is focused on the processes aimed at the value creation for the final customer. The course is mainly focused on the relationship between buyer and supplier, highlighting the main managerial and strategic decisions characterizing the process.

During the lecture hours great emphasis will be given to:

-          Concepts of Supply chain and value system;

-          In sourcing vs. outsourcing;

-          Network design;

-          Suppliers management;

-          Distribution strategies and design;

-          Upstream and downstream decision;

-          Supply chain performance;

-          ICT within the Supply chain;

-          Business model evolution and new chain actors.

-         Management of economic transaction: transaction cost economics, theory of contracts and incomplete contracts, trust, advanced topics in relational and transactional management

-         International souring and service offshoring

Readings/Bibliography

Gianluca Spina (a cura di) - La gestione dell'impresa - Etas, Milano, 2006, (parte IV - Acquisti e supply chain da pag. 498 a pag. 634)

R. Chase, N. Aquilano, R. Jacobs – Operations management nella produzione e nei servizi – McGraw-Hill, 2008. Capitoli 9 e 11

A. Nicita – Economia dei contratti – Carocci, 2005. Capitoli 1, 6, 7, 8.1, 8.2

J. Dyer – Collaborative advantage: winning through extended enterprise supplier networks – Oxford University Press, 200. Capitolo 4 pp. 87-97.

G. Nassimbeni, M. Sartor – Approvvigionamenti in Cina: Strategie metodi esperienze – Il sole24 ore, 2004. Cap. 1, 4, 5.

G. Nassimbeni, M. Sartor – Approvvigionamenti in India: Opportunità e strategie nel paese del service offshoring. – Il sole 24ore, 2006. Cap. 1 e 5.

S. Castaldo – Fiducia e relazioni di mercato. Il Mulino, 2002. Chapters to be defined

Further readings will be communicated during the course

Teaching methods

slides to support the lesson

Assessment methods

written examination

Teaching tools

frontal lessons

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Barbieri