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Supply Chain Management28496/4572/2021/1/69
Study guide

Supply Chain Management

28496/4572/2021/1/69
Academic year 2020-21
Is found in:
  • International Curriculum Business, Retail and Languages, programme stage 3
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 3 credits
Weight: 3,00
Total study time: 75,00 hours
It is not possible to enrol in this course unit under
  • exam contract (to obtain a credit).
  • exam contract (to obtain a degree).
Special admission is required to enrol in this course unit under credit contract.
Co-ordinator: Wallays Piet
Languages: English
Scheduled for: Semester 1

Final objectives

can organize, plan and control the goods and information flow of a company: development, procurement, production, distribution, return flows (domestic and international)
can analyse and optimise SME management issues and processes from a management helicopter view
can bring products and services on the market (local or international)

Objectives

Can describe and clarify elementary basic concepts of supply chain management.
Can represent a supply chain in a process flow diagram.
Can describe and clarify demand prediction techniques.
Can apply demand forecasting techniques to simple practical cases.
Can describe and clarify stock models.
Can apply stock models to simple practical cases.
Can describe and clarify procurement management models.
Can apply procurement management models to simple practical cases.
Can describe and clarify production management models.
Can apply production management models to simple practical cases.
Can describe and clarify distribution management models (in the context of SCM).
Can apply distribution management models (in the context of SCM) to simple practical cases.
Can apply sales and operations planning (demand management, inventory management, purchasing management, production management, distribution bear) to a practical case.

Contents

Supply Chain Management: definitions, evolution from logistics to supply chain, importance of flow, decoupling points (MTS, MTO, ETO)
Customer Segmentation & Product lifecycle management: Identify core customers and service policy
Manage phasing in & out of products
Demand management: Forecasting time series ( MA, ES) & calculating forecast accuracy (MAPE), Forecasting trends (single & multiple regression) & Seasonality,
Procurement management: Total Cost of Ownership, Kraljic portfolio, circular economy, vendor compliance
Order promising: Available to promise, capable to promise, capable to deliver
Production management: MRP II, Lean, QRM,
Inventory management: EOQ, ABC, safety stock, ordering policies,
Supply chain execution: Warehousing , containers, pallets
Distribution management: Distribution strategies, optimisation, cost model
Sales & Operations planning: Integration of all modules, optimisation
Supply chain strategy: Alignment, functional & innovative , outsourcing

Organisation of education

Contactonderwijs24,00 hours

Teaching methods

  • Learning dialogue
  • Activating lecture
  • Practice session

Study guidance

Individual learning problems can always be reported to the lecturer.
Formative feedback

Evaluation

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
Inside Regular exam scheduleWritten examination100,00digital exam
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
MomentForm%Remark
Inside Regular exam scheduleWritten examination100,00digital exam
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Re-sit exam: is possible.
Possible deadlines for learning account: 01.12.2020 ()