The strategic framework to understand supply chain and some important key issues in supply chain management are explored. Some  key relevant areas in  supply chain include: the demand forecasting  methods especially time series methods, controlling  methods of inventory, design ,control and operation of supply chain network, transportation system and information ,the coordination methods of supply chain  and  some  tools for decision-making etc. The aim of this  course is to make students understand the essential rules of supply chain management, to apply the existing technologies and thoughts to manage supply chain, to convey the intuition behind many key supply chain concepts and to provide simple that can be used to analyze and optimize various aspects of the supply chain .all of these must be on the basis of deep understanding  of  the whole operating environments.