Curricula

Objectives

Object:
Supply chains are playing a major role in the operation and success of organisations. Development of e-commerce has had a great impact on material flows and the digitalisation of organisations has brought challenges besides opportunities to the supply chain management. It is important to understand this recent progression. Complex and long supply chains includes several operators and roles. Supply chains require monitoring and control as well as cooperation between the organisations. The different perspectives of several factors and operators needs to be considered in every phase of a supply chain.

Competences:
- Logistics competence
- Learning and information management competence
- Entrepreneurship, innovation and working community competence

Target:
Student understands the basics of supply chain management as well as the importance of cooperation and transparency of information. Student understands the role of procurement, production and distribution as a part of supply chain.

Content

Content:
- Supply chain management, transparency and collaboration
- Role of procurement in a supply chain
- Role of production in a supply chain
- Distribution as a part of supply chain

Time and location

wk 34 Saturday - face-to-face
wk 36 Friday - Zoom
wk 38 Friday - Zoom
wk 40 Friday - face-to-face

Learning materials and recommended literature

Christopher, M. (2016). Logistics & supply chain management. Fifth edition. Harlow, England : Pearson. (s. 253 - 267)

Chopra, S., Meindl, P. (2016). Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operation. Sixth edition. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education Limited. (s. 189 - 220 & 243 - 259)

Senol, A., Bakhsh, A., Elshennawy, A. (2021). Review of Supply Chain Metrics to Support Performance Excellence. The Journal of Management and Engineering Integration, Vol. 14, No. 1. (s. 90 - 104)

Swink, M., Melnyk, S., Hartley, J. (2023). Managing operations across the supply chain. Fifth edition. International student edition. New York: McGraw Hill. (s. 298 - 312 & 316 - 317)

Material is also available in Moodle learning environment.

Teaching methods

The course is offered as two face-to-face learning days and two half-day virtual Zoom lectures. Self-study, group discussions and group works (during the lectures) as well as two learning assignments are also part of this course.

Practical training and working life connections

The course will have a guest lecturer/guest lecturers.

Exam dates and retake possibilities

This course does not have an exam.

Student workload

One credit corresponds to an average of 27 hours of work, which means that the load of five credits is approximately 135 hours.

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

1: Student understands the basics of supply chain management as well as the importance of cooperation and transparency of information. Student understands the role of procurement, production and distribution as a part of supply chain.

2: Student understands what is supply chain management and the importance of cooperation and transparency of information. Student understands the role of procurement, production and distribution as a part of supply chain.

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

3: Student understand the entity of supply chain management and the impact of cooperation and transparency of information to the supply chain. Student can link the roles of procurement, production and distribution as a part of supply chain.

4: Student manages the entity of supply chain management and has a skill to utilise cooperation and information transparency in supply chain tasks. Students manages the roles of procurement and production. Student manages the transformed role of distribution in a supply chain management.

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

5: Student manages the entity of supply chain management and the influence of cooperation and information transparency to supply chain tasks. Students can apply the roles of procurement and production. In addition student manages the transformed role of distribution in this entity.

Prerequisites

Basics of logistics