Purchasing - Analysing and Development (5cr)

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General information

Timing: 01.08.2019 - 31.12.2019; Implementation has ended.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 cr

Local portion: 5 cr

Mode of delivery: Face-to-face

Unit: School of Technology

Teaching languages: English

Degree programmes: Bachelor's Degree Programme in International Business

Teachers: Petrus Syvänperä; Jutta Nihtilä

Groups: HBI17S1
Degree Programme in International Business; TLE17S1
Degree Programme in International Logistics

Course: TEPU1550

Unfortunately, no reservations were found for the realization Purchasing - Analysing and Development TEPU1550-9S0L1. It's possible that the reservations have not yet been published or that the realization is intended to be completed independently.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Objective

EUR-ACE Knowledge and understanding: Student can analyze and develop purchasing as part of business development. Student understands the development potential both on operational and strategic level.

EUR-ACE Engineering analysis: Student can apply appropriate analyzing methods for current state analysis and decision making as well as for creating development plans.

EUR-ACE Investigations: Student recognizes different information systems in purchasing and when they are utilized.

Content

The main content will include
- systematic development of purchasing as part of the business development
- analyzing methods incl. spend-analysis, ABC-analysis, value analysis, tail management
- purchasing process development
- performance measurement in purchasing
- information systems in purchasing

Materials

van Weele, Arjan. 2010. Purchasing and Supply Chain Management. 5th ed. Cengage Learning.

Completion alternatives

Assignments and/or participation and/or exam.Required assessment items are described in beginning of the course.

Student workload

Planned workload per (1) course credit is 27 hours.For example in 5 credits course the workload is 135 hours.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Excellent (5): Student has attained an excellent level of course objectives and can apply them into practice in innovative manner.
Very good (4): Student has attained very good level of course objectives and can apply them into practice.
Good (3): Student has gained understanding of course objectives and can utilize them in practice.
Satisfactory (2): Student has gained knowledge of course objectives and can utilize them partly in practice.
Sufficient (1): Student has gained knowledge of course objectives but faces challenges to utilize them in practice.

Qualifications

The students are able to find information independently, make basic excel calculation and to prepare reports. They have the basic knowledge of logistics processes and purchasing.