In the Supply Chain Planning course offered by the University of California, Irvine, the material is divided into 4 weeks, with each week covering new content. At the end of each week, there will be a mixed-format test comprising multiple-choice and essay questions. The minimum passing grade is 80, and those who score below that threshold will be required to retake the test.
Here’s a breakdown of the weekly topics:
Week 1: We’ll dive into demand planning, learning how to identify influencing factors, distinguish between three types of simple statistical forecasts, and calculate several forecast values.
Week 2: We’ll cover the fundamentals of supply planning, confirming internal and external capacities, ensuring material availability, and emphasizing the importance of communication and data sharing for supply planning.
Week 3: We’ll discuss constrained forecasting and consensus meetings. Specifically, we’ll explore the objectives and creation of constrained forecasts and how consensus meetings are utilized to achieve organizational goals.
Week 4: We’ll focus on measuring outcomes through collecting actual performance results and calculating forecast errors. Specifically, we’ll discuss the objectives of outcome measurement and types of metrics.
