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Global Distribution Course |
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This course is one of two courses offered during the first semester of the second year. Globalization influences all distribution channels. International firms face many challenges and opportunities but even local distributors are challenged with international sourcing and global competitors. This course examines global competitive issues in sourcing, operations, and sales. Global networks of facilities, human resources, inventories, and supplier relationships are examined together with legal issues and logistics.
The Global Distribution course features "real-time" case studies in which four distributors and their suppliers provide a problem environment for students to work on supply chain solutions. An international trip to the supplier's and/or distributor's operation is included in the course. Past trips have involved Mexico, China, France, Germany and Italy. Each year, new case studies are prepared for a new location with new problem environments to reflect the changing challenges facing global distribution.
You are required to travel to a selected international location and study global distribution issues for one week as part of this course. The MID faculty will arrange several site visits to distributors and manufacturers in the international location to occur during the week lecture.
Students are responsible for their costs associated with the global distribution travel trip. However, some years the MID program is able to fund a portion of the trip through outside resources.
Global Distribution Trip - Fall 2011
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