Supply Chain Management
Lab Curriculum.

BUG FOUND: learners who know supply chain terms, but cannot fix a stock-out or a broken plan.

$ step-01 brushup // weeks 1–2 — Topics taught:

1. Inventory basics: stock, reorder point, safety stock, and lead time.
2. Demand forecasting basics: trends, seasonality, and forecast error.
3. Procurement and vendor basics: orders, lead times, and costs.
4. Logistics basics: warehousing, transport, and delivery performance.
5. Excel for planning: tables, formulas, and scenario checks.
6. Reading a supply plan and spotting a shortage before it happens.

$ step-02 debug // weeks 3–4 — Production Debugging. Tools: Excel, sample order / inventory / vendor data.

• BUG #1: Stock-out on a fast-moving item — find the forecast / reorder error, correct the plan, show the new stock cover.
• BUG #2: Excess stock on a slow item — find the over-order cause, propose a drawdown plan without a new stock-out.
• BUG #3: A vendor delay breaks a plan — re-plan with available stock and lead times, show the service impact.
• BUG #4: Demand forecast is systematically wrong for one category — find the seasonality / data error, correct the forecast method.

$ step-03 navigate // weeks 5–7 — Codebase / System Navigation:

• Navigate a supply network: orders, vendors, warehouses, and lead times; trace a shortage to its true cause.
• Fix a plan without creating a new shortage elsewhere; check knock-on effects.
• Build a supplier / lead-time tracker and use it to prioritise expediting.
• Present a plan change with cost vs service trade-offs, in writing.

$ step-04 ship // weeks 8–9 — Shipping Features: capstone — an optimised inventory / logistics plan for a real-style business, with cost and service trade-offs stated.

$ ship → PROOF — exact output: inventory / logistics plan, forecast-error comparison, and a trade-off note.

$ run --lab supply-chain-management → ✓ SHIPPED, job-ready