The course develops on the global perspective of supply chain management which comprises international supply chain management and processes. The course concentrates on defining global supply-chain processes and performances, demand forecasting in the global supply chains, coordination in the global supply chains, inventory management across the global supply chains, procurement processes in the global supply chains such as global sourcing, off-shoring strategies, supplier selections, etc., the role of information technology in the global supply chains, and sustainability of the global supply-chain management.