Content👨🏻🦰：Introduction; Supply Contracts(Credit hours: 1); Contracts for Make-to-stock(Credit hours: 2); Contracts for strategic components(Credit hours: 1); Distributor Integration(Credit hours: 1); Contracts for nonstrategic components (Credit hours: 1)
Emphasis👉🏽：contracts for strategic components; contracts for non-strategic components; long-term contracts; flexible contracts
Objectives🧑🧑🧒：Help students know four types of Contracts, and usage of different types of contracts
Hours🤹🏼：4
Case study：American Tool Works.
Homework🌯：Read the papers in relation to this field in various Journals（2000-2013）.
International of Production Economics
Supply Chain Management-An International Journal
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
Computer and Industrial Engineering
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management
2. Read and compare the methods of Strategic Alliances from the followin
