Modulbeschreibung

Professional skills

Participants will be able to:

• Explain the principles of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and know about its levers to business success
• Apply concepts to balance demand and supply, meet customer service objectives and minimize total supply chain cost.
• Evaluate value chain processes and define appropriate KPI for measurements and improvements
• Master the most important information flows
• Perform typical tasks of procurement, logistic management and supplier management
• Understand the basic planning processes for distribution networks and facilities 

Methodological skills

Participants will be able to:

• Analyse industrial value-adding processes by selecting and using the right methods
• Systematically identify potential for improvement and derive measures and recommendations.

Personal skills

Participants will be able to:

• Realistically plan their own personal time and keep to the schedule when solving complex case studies and exercises.
• Position themselves in terms of their attitude towards sustainable decisions in the supply chain.

Social skills

Participants will be able to:

• Realistically plan and divide tasks based on the workload in complex case studies as a team
• Solve conflicts within the team 

• Warehouse Management: Layout, Equipment, Material Flows, Processes (such as Order-Picking)
• Transportation Management: Shipment Characteristics, Transportation Modes, Partnerships & Network aspects
• Inventory Planning and Optimization: Decoupling Point, Inventory Cost, Service Level, Dealing with Uncertainty
• Purchasing: Sourcing Decisions, Cost Calculation, Negotiation
• Business Dimension of SCM: Make or Buy-Decisions, Tradeoffs and TCO-Considerations
• Supply Chain Strategy: Put SC-decisions into the overall context of the organizational goals

Required literature, scripts, books:

• All Materials used in Lecture and Exercises

Further reading (recommendation to students):

• Will be advised during the course