Introduction to Supply Chain Management where Logistics is a function

Weekly Course Contents: Week 1
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An introduction to Supply Chain Management where Logistics is a function to support
The global supply chain management for the globally placed supply chains demands the appropriate global logistics management visions, the global logistics logistics strategies and the global logistics operation management plans. the 1PLs is to work accordingly and to manage the 3PLs who work the 2PLs, ot to have competent 4PLs to come into the place of 1PLs...
The Big Picture, the mindset and skill set and the knowledge to support
And...the new trend to an end on the global economy the way it has been shaped, the impacts on the global supply chain management, particularly on logistics that changes with the procurement policies in light of the new U.S. policies and laws. regulations. 
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Weekly Course Contents: Week 2
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The concept of global supply chain management is all about taking the advantages of the strengths made available as the viable resources worldwide to tap into. The lower costs, faster delivery with quality assurance field proven, all mounting to better products and better profits. A corporate vision along that line is typically to have all things considered to put together a strategy. Foreign Exchange and the world economy, how do they impact on the strategic planning for supply chain management? What would that subsequently mean to the international logistics? Is it just some politics stuff you do not need to care?
What would be the first risk when it comes to L/C for a 1PL or a 4PL, even for a 3PL?
What are the differences between xPLs anyway? Where do they differ? How? Why? Where?
An in depth introduction on the scope of works and function differences between all the PLs, so that regardless the functions of future employees within the SCM realm, it is important to know who does what, why and how, and how to measure their results.
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Weekly Course Contents: Week 3
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o	  UH SCMT Class 3 Contents.pdf UH SCMT Class 3 Contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (125.229 KB)
While revisiting the international impact concerns for global SCM decisions, in more details, extended with the curated and guided YouTube Video watch on the relevant reports,the students are introduced to the big pictures of the general landscape (or seascape you will) for the management at the SCM functions of business entities, how to evaluate and reevaluate the policies and decisions in line with the regional and international political climates, the economic changes, the judicial system development or trends and their collective impacts on the costs of doing business the way it is.
It is not about just the freight costs or the taxation costs, while it is an important factor to include as always, the mid to long term trend must be assessed to the risk of changing SCM map and the added costs. What China can deliver today at the price, the quality and the quantity on certain things may not be available from other countries of the emerging market, not without a given process for the learning curve. That may be the lower cost upfront but eventually cost much more to train the new vendors and bring up to the level and the speed.
What does the tariff war mean to the businesses in this country and around the world? how would that impact on all the economies already linked up in the past couple of decades? Can we assure America First with the tariffs on Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, Japan...all at the same time while fighting the Chinese in the economic war? What does that do for everyone including ourselves?
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Weekly Course Contents: Week 4
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o	  UH SCMT Class 4 Contents.pdf UH SCMT Class 4 Contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (257.628 KB)
One of the primary functions for 1PL, 4PL (and in many cases 3PLs procure 2PL services) under COAs with the open and fair selecting criteria and the transparent screening procedure, to find the competent and capable service providers for the right job.
What does that mean at the category management level? What is EFA? What is AVL? How should they build a portfolio and maintain by frequent updating? What kind of market analysis should they conduct and compare the notes?
What do the buyers should do with the approved vendors in their procurement process?
How do the RFx process works?
How do the procurement professionals negotiate contracts?
What is a Charter Party and why is that important for the project logistics?
What is a COA and how does that work for category management covers project logistics?
How would you even know the contract template provided for you need to alter and where and how, if you have no legal training as most don't?
What should you look for if you are put on the task of screening for the logistics service providers?
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Week 5 Class Contents PowerPoint & Video Watch List
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In this class, 1PL/2PL/3PL/4PL functions and work scopes will be revisited, before we move on to begin a series of introductions to the transport mode specific 2PL strategic management for 1PL, 3PL and 4PL.
After you learned about the 2PL operation management and the concerns for 1PL, ask yourself does 3PL have a role in this? If so, how? How do you know they are good enough for the job? What questions do you want to ask, when procuring the 3PL services?
Do you ask the 4PLs the same questions that you ask the 3PLs?  If you do, why, if you don't, why not? Have your answers ready for the class.
The point we repeat over and over again about 1PL/2PL/3PL/4PL is because the point of views, hence the concerns, are all different, when looking at the logistics operations, depends what role you undertake. You may find yourself flipping the fence back and forth a lot in your future career, whenever the opportunities present themselves. However, the scope and tasks of the logistics operation management functions are all different, between 1PL/2PL/3PL/4PLs.
It is the objective of the class that you will know the differences and be ready for it. The better you understand it, the more chances will present before you.
This is what you may find coming handy, beyond the BS degree that get you into the door for an opportunity on the floor.
The differences here: get into a door and to land a job or
                                       get into the right door and to start a job right, or
                                       get into the right door and to have your strategies and plan to climb the ladder

                                       Do you know all that there is to know to set your strategy and plan? That is more than just a degree...
You want career advancement? Ge ready!  

 
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Week 6 PowerPoint on Rail Carriage
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o	  UH SCMT class 6 Contents.pdf UH SCMT class 6 Contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (124.921 KB)
This part of the course is to focus on the strategic management by 1PL & 4PL of rail carriages.
Why not 3PL? Very few 3PLs are specialized in rail carriage managements.
1PL really manage rail carriages? Yes, not just on strategic level, but actually directly operate private rail yards and private rail links in case of midstream and downstream sectors of oil, gas & chemical industry, as well as agricultural business entities...
4PLs, only the specialized ones, are expected to manage at strategic level with the related expertise.
What cargoes are suitable for rail shipping?
Why do we pay attention to availabilities of the rail links at seaports?
What countries/places rely more on the rail shipping?
How to get a U.S. rail carrier to work on a carriage passage surveyed for clearance on a project? 
When and why would anyone need to lease locomotives from the rail carriers?
When and why special rail cars are needed?
How do the mid and downstream oil and chemical companies operate their private rail assets on their production premises? Software commonly used by all dominated the specialized segment of the market for this.
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Week 7 Teaching contents Barge Carriages
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o	  UH SCMT class 7 contents.pdf UH SCMT class 7 contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (102.165 KB)
In this class, we explore what impacts some 31 states of America in massive transport along the domestic fresh water navigation system primarily formed between Mississippi River and Ohio River at the core, especially for the lower freight cargo moving in the bulks, subject to the seasonal impacts on the drafts, on the following
1) What are the types of the barges available out there>?
2) What are they for, each type intended for a designated purpose and operated differently?
3) Where are they mostly used?
4) The Jurisdictions and regulations, as well as the enforcement government agencies over the barge shipping
5) The common operational concerns over the barge carriages
6) Planning for 1PL, 3PL and 4PL for project capital equipment carriages by barges
7) A Worthy Point: the regulated traffics inland water way with the important forward thinking and the particular vision on the implementation, an example set by the EU. Please read the directive report from the EU committee:  
This research has identified three areas where digitalization is critically important for IWT: 1 The improvement of navigation and management of traffic: this is necessary to make more efficient use of the capacity of the infrastructure and to reduce fuel costs for vessel operators. 2 The integration with other modes of transport, especially in multimodal hubs: this is necessary to optimize processes in terminals and to allow for an improved integration of IWT in supply chains and multi-modal logistics operations, thereby potentially attracting additional customers. 3 A reduction of the administrative burden: reducing the number of business-togovernment declarations (thereby saving costs and improving efficiency) and making law-enforcement more efficient and effective.
https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/studies/2017-10-dina.pdf

OK That was about the EU
Now, about OUR OWN infrastructure you need to be aware of: 




"What Does CoronaVirus Mean for China's Economy" .    Please watch on YouTube, to appreciate the worldwide placed supply chain can be disturbed easily even with even just a few weeks' eruption. It typically took a decade to design and to implement such supply chain strategies and the operation management. Not easily relocate simply to another country. Thru COVID-19, we can see it clearly.
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"Special Report: EV: On the Brink of Change" by Bloomburg
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Week 8 Teaching Content on Air Carriages
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o	  UH SCMT Class 8 Contents1.pdf UH SCMT Class 8 Contents1.pdf - Alternative Formats (100.765 KB)
In this class, we explore the world of air freight where they came from and where they are heading: from the passenger planes carrying cargo to dedicated cargo planes, and then the dedicated express parcel delivery planes such as FedEx, UPS and DHL, and then the on-line trade firms began to have their own private fleets such as Amazon...now people are working on the delivery planes fly themselves, with a whole lot less on the fuel costs and no longer worry about the pilots in shortage anyway (Not to mention they won't have no more concerns on Unions) 
the following questions to guide the studies combined between the class teaching PowerPoint and the video watch:
1) what type of the air freights primarily are there and how do they differentiate?
2) Project cargo needed special cargo air planes 
3) Air freight brokers for air charters 
4) Air Cargo Insurance
5) Autonomous cargo planes 
6) Automated service facilities 
Please watch CNBC video "How drones could change the shipping industry" on YouTube
Also please watch "The Age of Trillion Dollar Mega Corporations" on YouTube by EE and
"The Robots Are Doing the Trading"
and
"How Robinhood Makes Money" (MSNBC)
and
The 3.7 Trillion Corporate debt Question/WSJ
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Andrew Jassy, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services/Talks with GS
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Week 11 Teaching Contents on Ocean Carriages
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o	  UH SCMT class 9 contents.pdf UH SCMT class 9 contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (171.373 KB)

The First Mini Essay (Internal Communication Advocate on SCM/Logistics Subjects)  Due Today!!!!
In this class, we will go over the strategic level management, as 1PL and 4PL, of the ocean carriages. The knowledge you should have on the most common "main carriages" between the load port and discharge port.
As for category management to prepare for a COA as an EFA, one should know how to set the subcategories and then proceed to pick the ones out of each subcategory.
So how would we create such subcategories? By ship and gear types, and by the type of services they operate those ships and under the particular types of contracts, before we go on and compare them between the ports they call on which make up their trade routes, and the service frequencies they serve between the ports of load and discharge, and the transit time of each voyage between the first port of call and the last one on each voyage. How many ships are available in the fleet to serve the trade route and main the frequency, given the same transit time?
All that, before you come down to look at the freight rates.
What laws would apply and what jurisdiction should serve, when we draft contracts?
What are the main terms and what are the rider clauses? Where we really should look at hard and see if we could negotiate, as versus the   commonly accepted terms?
Where does that differ between a charter party and a booking note? how do they relate to the bills of ladings?
What does a charter party or a Booking Note have anything to do with a B/L?
What is a Bare Boat Charter?
What is a Time Charter?
What is a Voyage Charter?  
What are the differences between the Shippers, the Charterers, the Consignees, the Owners/Operators?
Why they need a Chartering Broker and how much they pay for the brokerage?
How do one place the 2PL ocean service providers under the "Carriers" category into the subcategories?
How would one select the right ocean services for the right logistics needs?
What does Express Ocean B/L mean and what would be the risks?
How would a L/C relate to the B/L releasing?
Why Charter Parties for break bulk, especially heavy lift break bulk is very specialized trading within a very small circle?
Why would a maritime lawyer specialized in container biz could mess up the entire break bulk contract because he or she actually had no idea what he or she was doing?
What trend could the container ship owners/operators be seeing soon in the sea trade coming up?
How would project cargo experts pick the best ship for a project cargo voyage that the average folks have no idea how to go about?
How would the tanker charters of Crude Oil or Chemical or LNG as the liquid bulks be so different from the dry bulk charters? 
What is a top off operation?
What is a Trans-shipment?
What is a feeder service? 
How does the U.S. related container shipping freight tariff work in relation to the FMC?
What is a House B/L?
What is a NVOCC?
 What is a COA?
 What is Service Contract?
You don't have to know the tactical details of such to the ones had the professional training. You might be surprised to know that at the big 3PLs of tens of thousands of employees, they may not always have on qualified chartering hand, but everyone can do booking notes without much training. Some well known liner services may not have the real chartering pros either... so, if you don't know too much about it, you will need find one that actually does!
Please watch the YouTube video of 
DW documentary on "The deceptive promise on free trade"     
and
How China Funds American Recycling or the same CNBC program somehow under another title "Why the U.S. stopped selling the recycled goods to China"
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Why Amazon Has So many Counterfeit Goods (CNBC)

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Week 12 Teaching Contents on Drones & Asset Tracking and Inventory Optimization Management
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o	  UH SCMT class 12 contents.pdf UH SCMT class 12 contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (121.874 KB)
o	  UH SCMT class 11 contents.pdf UH SCMT class 11 contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (96.317 KB)
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The Technical Reality & the Transition Process Pending Hybrid Traffic Regulations (legal & digitally technical integrations with interfaces to comply industrial standards)
future deployment of the autonomous crafts/vehicles for deliveries of goods interfaced with TMS, and the automated handling gears to operate load and unload handling and staging/storage, interfaced with WMS. 
What would be the concerns of such hybrid environment, when the human operated equipments and crafts work at the same time of the autonomous ones, before they all transit to entirely human-less operations all across board?
Inventory optimization management...what is Optimization for what purpose?
Optimization Objectives and presumptions set for Operation Research Model Analysis: a simplified example of a OR solution to a problem in a daily life routine
Optimization of inventory for BOM in manufacturing places
Optimization of inventory for retail, in relation to the supply chain route & DC design (COVID-19)
Optimization of inventory for Reverse Logistics in the electronic product business
Why and how do we do asset tracking in the OG&C upstream project process management?
Smart SCM relies on what intelligence for what process transprency?
Data scan and data mining, data cleansing, big data
Model analysis, historical trend and operation research 
Best practice based SOP
Automated online procedures
What we know about the shipping label and shipping tags? What's RFID? What's Satellite tags? What and why are we tracking the shipments in its physical flow status of the entire process across the pre-carriage, main carriage and the on carriage all the way even to the lay down yard?
Is there a "Big Picture" at the construction site where the separate 3PLs under separate subcontracts by separate awarded EPCs work in silos? If not, where is the operation process progress status transparencies? Who is coordinating in between? who is sitting atop the chain of the commands? Why would that matter? Why do you think the problems everyone knows but no one is doing anything about it?
What is an "On-site project logistics coordinator or on-site project logistics manager, and how does that job relate to the construction site manager?
What is a  gate appointment? 
What is a traffic route design and how does that relate to the the bottlenecks?
What are the impacts of the on-site staging space utilization designation and allocation optimization problem on the site delivery traffics and the snowball effects? 
What is "Gang and Gear Hired But Not Used" and what is a Demurrage?
What happens when the delivery trucks queue up outside the site gates?
What is capital equipment cycle tests recommended/required by the vendors/fabricators at the staging/storage places where the deliveries are made?
Data carrying capacities. technical standards and compliance, compatible and inter-operable...? Purchase contract & shipper compliance
Why do we need to scan the data and at which nodes of a delivery process? How would they relate to the TMS and WMS?
Your transmission technical options between GPS up/down links, Bar Code and RFID? How to use which where for what?
What is inventory optimization management and how do we go about doing it?
What is inventory surplus and are the common options?
It of course involves planning and executions.
What options would we have to dispose the surplus?
Please watch CNBC video "How drones could change the shipping industry" on YouTube
and on Asset Tracking related videos
and on Inventory Optimization related videos 
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Week 13 Class Teaching Content on Marine & Air Cargo along with other Insurance
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o	  UH SCMT Week 13 Class Contents.pdf UH SCMT Week 13 Class Contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (133.877 KB)
In this class we explore the subject of marine and air cargo insurance, and other insurances, as an important element of the supply chain management operation procedures.
Why insure anything? Things happen, it is one way to mitigate the risks of happening, as we all do have auto insurance and house insurance. Marine & air cargo insurance is the one on the things we ship.
Not all risks are insurable, marine and air cargo insurance cover certain risks to certain scope with certain claim adjustment amount as all stipulated in the insurance policies. 
A real case out of my own direct experiences, involved a shipment to pick up in a port in Thailand over a voyage charter for a major EPC, who was awarded by a leading integrated owner/operator, and the project was insured. Everything could happen, almost did happen, for the first time in my professional life.
The Insured subject
The underwriter & its insurance policy along with the claim procedures and how they adjust the claims in practice
When we look at a piece of insurance policy issued by a underwriter against the particular insurance items for the types of coverages we opted, we think about the risks we need to insure for, and we think about the claim procedures, hoping we could get them adjusted as what we have the risks underwritten for,
So what do we know about the terms of the policies? Force Majeure, or War Risks...?
Premiums and deductable
co-insurance between the underwriters 
Reinsurance: the insurance for the insurance underwriters
the financial damages NOT covered by marine/air cargo insurances under the same underwritten risks: time lost in damage repaired and the direct and indirect financial impacts
General average clause in C/P & B/L
file:///Users/drifter/Downloads/Annual%20Overview%20of%20Marine%20Casualties%20and%20Incidents%202019.pdf
(general average loss, review of sea accidents 2019)
The law of general average is a principle of maritime law whereby all stakeholders in a sea venture proportionally share any losses resulting from a voluntary sacrifice of part of the ship or cargo to save the whole in an emergency.
What do we know about the claim procedures of the carriers underwrote the risks?
Evidences and the financial damages for the claims against
Port captains and surveyors, Marine Insurance Inspectors
What do we know about the claim adjustment practices of the carriers?
Project Insurances for EPCs
Ship Hull Insurances for the Ship Owners in Owners' Club
Why would some companies prefer to self insure?
The losses from time to repair for damages and the rearrangements of shipping lead to operational revenue losses are not underwritten risks, and some times the repair has to wait for the pending investigations of the insurance inspectors
How would you procure an insurance carrier? by the way they adjust claims, not by the premiums
How do they make money as an insurance carrier? They invest, while the odds to pay for your loss is well calculated with the most expensive model analysis on the odds
Please watch the YouTube video Tesla Insurance will Dominate & Transform the Insurance Industry
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Week 14 Class Teaching Content on TMS & WMS
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In this class we discuss the designated functions of the TMS and the WMS (standalone or as ERP modules) 
Planning economies at the Communist states in theories and its flaws in realities
Planning business objectives and approaches for the enterprises at the Capitalism systems
MRP
ERP, ORACLE, SAP, and other ERP systems
Basic feature functions, the generic scheme design for general purpose, most commonly must be customized to suit a specific practice at a particular enterprise (Enterprise Resource Planning) reflect certain corporate culture in its operation process
Streamlined and standardized process, a SOP
Implementation procedure
Operation process transparency
Accounting Purpose (Cost analysis & control)  
The Flaws of the ERPs
A WMS does not have to be an ERP module, it can be a standalone software all by itself, but it does work better with the ERP running in the back to get the data in to and out from  
While WMS are implemented at most warehouses of mid to bigger companies in the  USA, TMS are implemented far less, as they are only designed to check the rates and the availabilities, before book and track the shipments down. They are Transportation Management as the name describes, not exactly a logistics management module per se: meaning a lot more stuff are not covered. It is a baseline simply tool.
As for WMS, it does cover most of the operational functions at core, if not all, and one can purchase and implement a standalone WMS software without necessarily to get a more expensive ERP.
As a SCM student, you do need to know how it works in concept at least
However, what do they say about ERP? "Garbage in and garbage out": whatever the inputs fed into the system lead to the outputs respectively!
And, what would you do with the data? You need to process it, screen out the dirty data, and use the good ones for model analysis.
the BI of the ERPs
Operation Research for SCM, procurement and logistics, especially project logistics
AI and Deep Learning supports available to enhance and reinforce today (Please watch the YouTube videos on the relevant contents) 
Operation Research for Logistics, long existed for the military use, and for the business logistics as well, and for the manufacturing operations, warehousing (inventory optimizations) all about optimization for most part, can be simple or complicated depends on the objectives set forth 
A.I. a rookie copy cat of the human brain, whereas the science today knows yet very little about how the human brain works
It is a trained logic, as smart as trained, but the computation power is far beyond the human brain, and it now can generate is own  algorithms as trained, on top of the given algorithms, adding to the computation power

the definitions, what it is meant to be and what it is today, and the current capabilities in the trained logics for algorithms, hopefully where it evolves into in my wishful thinking...wisdom...really?  Please watch open course on the subject from MIT or Stanford
Deep Learning. Smart in learning...if smartly trained, for logics, with the proper cognitive pattern set in place. It can work better in analyzing the mined and qualified/cleansed data and to analyze through the models for the trends, the out put spit out by the models shall well represent where the human learning could ignore or fail hence a blank area. Especially in a sphere of new knowledge where not much accumulated intuitively by the human experiences. Knowledge Institutionalization and refinement in proper cognition patterns, when collect and process the fragments of the individually intuitively accumulated the knowledge and experiences   
Question: when the autonomous crafts moving about, in and out of the fully automated logistics service facilities, would you still need the TMS and WMS? Really, you want to take on all the real time collected data automatically fed to the online automated operating procedures, for what? you check and verify the algorithms or the outputs of the models? The TMS and WMS relied on the human fed data, hopefully in time and in entirety, with no human errors. The online operation process transparency provided by the ERP and the TMS and the WMS altogether is not anywhere even near what the A.I. & Deep Learning system supported online automated SCM operation management platform system. That, I promise you!
This is in particular intended as part of the Course End Interview Presentation: the main theme of the subject. It is where the SCM evolves to in direction, and all SCMT students must be prepared for the T: analytical skill set will be the key.  
You are expected to present your vision on the subject, with the emphasis on the "T", as differentiated from the SCM major at the biz schools 
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Week 15 Class Teaching Contents on KPI Management
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You all learned in the other classes about KPI, or the term sounds familiar enough.
KANBAN system, before the ERP times
We are going to first go further into the concept, and then this class is to teach you about the purpose of it and how to design a simple system of KPI after defined scope and scaled  the increment to measure the fulfillment of a set of qualified objectives, so as to quantify the operational success.
"On the scale one to ten" the most basic KPI concept.
You did good! As versus You achieved 79.5% of the goal, you need to do better: based on the stats of the average performance in the similar jobs, 83.7% is reasonable to expect!"
You negotiate a KPI for your performance at the beginning of the year, and your bonus ties into the objective fulfillments at the end of the year in reviews joint by your boss.
If your attendance was 11 presences accounted for out of 17 classes, 12/17 will be the KPI score for you and so graded: a KPI there for ya!
Now, you boss at home, your parents or your boss, gave you a specific order that you are to water the plants in your garden twice a day 365/24/7 so that you can get some pocket money. sometimes they complain how lazy you are, and you produce a log book to prove that you have achieved 83.6% of that goal, with the justifiable reason of your being sick accumulated to 9 days, on travel out of town for 7 days, sleeping overnights 8 times...so you pretty much achieved 99%. How can you accuse me being lazy? There is a KPI set only it was not meant to measure your performance as a requirement by your boss!
Of course, for business KPI, it goes a bit more sophisticated.
Define: Objectives and measurement unit increment
Scope: the range to measure and the span of the process
Scale: How much to measure is reasonable and thus operationally pragmatic and achievable?
Supply Chain Management Best Practice based SOP and KPI management
Procurement: Long lead time order securing KPI
                          Special category vendor relationship management KPI
                          Category management/strategic sourcing vendor performance surveillance management KPI
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                          Impacts on ERP (Oracle/SAP) master planning
Logistics: Inventory Surplus & Disposal KPI management 
                 Transportation Budget & Actual Cost Management KPI 
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Week 16 Heavy Lifting &
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o	  UH SCMT week 10 Class Contents.pdf UH SCMT week 10 Class Contents.pdf - Alternative Formats (174.349 KB)
In this class, we explore what we should know about the heavy lifting services, as many capital equipments in project logistics must first concentrate on it as one center piece of the logistics operation plan management strategies: the heavy haul movements must be loaded and discharged safely without any incidents, and the heavy lift services are the key to it.
What is the differences between the LO/LO and RO/RO?
When do we use ship cranes and what is to know about it?
When should we find out about the availabilities of float cranes?
When do we think mobile cranes might work?
What type of cargoes Gantry Cranes on-board the ships could serve the purpose?
What would we look for on a route survey for the concerns of heavy lifting service operations and why?
What is a lift drawing? what is a lifting plan and how does that relate to the lift drawing?
What is a GA of a ship?
Why would the exact position of a ship gear matter?
What is a Outreach Ratio of a tower crane?
What is a stow plan and how special is that for a semi-submersible ship? What should we know about it?
How do we know a steamship agent and stevedore service is good for a project cargo handling?
What do the port captains do for such process?
What is a marine surveyor and what does he do for his client?
What is a tally sheet and what is a demurrage?
 
After the 15 weeks of class teaching and the course work of video watching, in a review we have learned the following:
The world economics under the impacts of the regional politics and the domestic laws/regulations in trade wars between the governments of various nations , and the collective/separate impacts on the strategic sourcing and hence the global logistics planning and operations, specifically for the category managements and the procurements in terms of best practices, as well as the changes in the structured costs.
As 1PL, the SCM strategies of all globally traded enterprises must have adjusted to adapt to the changes of the times, and so reflected in their logistics service procurement strategies, policies and the logistics operation management plans.
as 2PLs, the post globalism times simply translated into much smaller market demands at world or even regional scale, and must adjust their supply scales accordingly.
as 3PLs, the pressures come from the market that the low profit margin business model depending on the massive business revenues may have to be replaced by a new one demanded by the times of the Digitalization.
as 4PLs, the more precision based KPI service to achieve JITs are even more challenging.  
Now that we have learned about the transportation mode specific strategic management as the 1PL//3PL/4PL, as well as the inventory optimization management, the KPIs, the TMS and WMS along with the EPRs, acknowledged the future of the SCM/logistics that is already today (the automated logistics service facilities and the self driving vehicles are already the realities) what should we do to prepare ourselves for the global SCM/logistics of the 21st century?
Now that you know the differences in work scopes between the xPLs, and you are acquainted with the angles at each of them towards managing the specific transportation modes and the other logistics subcategories, do you have your preferences in all the job functions along the line?
In your future ob interviews for an intern or for a staff position, what would be the part you feel most confident about, that learned from this class, when sharing your passion about the future jobs of the particular role of your choice? Can you tell them what makes you a good candidate versus those from other schools?
All those curated YouTube video watch was for mind opening, and it is to help you to change your view point so that you would think a bit differently, more broadly, about the world around you, for a more strategic vision. When you talk to your future hiring manager in the interviews, that is supposed to show and to differentiate yourself from those did not take this class.
All the teaching contents in this class were designed to offer you the knowledge that you will need at the operation management to line management level in the SCM discipline, (not an operator with an Associate degree, nor a mid management level position right away) and to prepare you for your MS degree studies in case you decide to pursue further.  
All the course works you have done and reviewed with commentaries in class were to help you to develop your self study skills after this academic program, on your own; the Mini Essays were designed to get you start on sharpening your skills on inner communication and external communication writing skills. You have been encouraged to practice the people skills and the public speech, project process management with the given opportunities...
All the above are to prepare you for a job at a good work place with the skill set, the mind set and the knowledge you need there.
Nothing though, in the SCM business of the 21st century, will last two decades as the complete valid and relevant knowledge in the entirety. So what you learned today here will obsolete within 20 years or sooner. The business of SCM will be a lot more analytical and precision metric based, hence a lot more technical with the information technologies at core. It will change the work force tomorrow: while many folks at SCM works may or may not have a undergraduate degree, the SCMT related work functions will soon demand min MS degrees. The core part of it may require PhDs in Deep Learning or in Artificial Intelligence for algorithms, MS in Operation Research and Computer Science. If your future career in SCM is to take 30 years before you retire, you will definitely need to upgrade yourself to stay in the game and not to be washed away...like many of those 3PLs the way they are today!
You have also been shared with the tips on how to get into the right doors and how to grow from there, with the strategies that is good only for yourself and by yourself.
Now, in the course end interview, it is your turn to present your idea, after what you learned in this class through 15 weeks, a public speech opportunity too, tell us in 90 seconds opening statement of an otherwise full speech, on something you feel very strong about, with the supporting material submitted one week prior to the presentation.
Let's see what you have got!

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Operation Research Analysis & Logistics Problem Solving
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This is NOT a part of the class contents taught and be tested upon, but to help you preparing for the future job of SCM, specifically in logistics. I would speculate that not too many undergraduate SCM students actually came into this, in their training. Hopefully it could make a difference between yourself and them.
One case in Oilfield Redevelopment Project :

The solutions via qualitative analysis to improve the outstanding operation practice with altered and better practice
The Solutions via math model analysis leading to smarter operational decisions 
Just as the logistics, OR came with it from the military roots
What's at the stake: Operation revenue losses and the demurrages not budgets for costs
Public Highway to Central Site (Brown Site) via a shared community path
Central Site to Oilfields through a private path
Delivery traffics through all sections and the bottlenecks
Staging space designation and the bottlenecks
Compounded into the snowball effects
Task schedules for the super load heavy lift onsite handling gangs and gears
Reverse impacts on on-carriage from discharge port and on pre-carriage before reaching the load port, possible trnasitional staging? 
Gate appointment rescheduling to reshape the traffics by flatten the pattern? 
Logistics problems in pattern
OR solutions formulations
One model, deal with one specific pattern of problems
The Strategic Objectives 
The Operational Objectives
The Tactic Objectives
The Constraints
Solve
Solver
It is not a "One Size Fits All" solution
Logistics Problem Patterns
A.I. & Deep Learning for OR 
The Dimensions and reducing them, to avoid more compromises 
The quality of the Bridging Process determines the effectiveness of the OR Model analysis and accountabilities of the outputs for operational management decisions 
The Academics and the Business Requirements in Real Situations
Where they should meet for the optimization of the optimization processes of the OR deployed to solve real problems in formulations