Coordinated product and supply chain design in SCM

The following discussion agenda is on coordinated product and supply chain design in Supply Chain Management:

1. Design for Logistics
• Economic packaging and transportation
• Concurrent  and parallel processing
• Standardization
2. The push-pull boundary
3. Supplier integration into new product development
• The spectrum of supplier integration: none, white box, grey box, black box
• Key considerations on effective supplier integration
4. Mass customization
• What is mass customization?
• How to make it work?
• Mass customization and supply chain management

Reference
Semchi-Levi, D., Kaminsky, P. and Simchi-Levi, E. (2003) Designing & Managing the Supply Chain, McGraw-Hill [Chapter 9: Coordinated Product and Supply Chain Design]