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2025-2026 / LOGI0016-1

Quality, Ethics and Sustainability in Supply Chain Management

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in management, professional focus in global supply chain management5 crédits 
 Master in business engineering, professional focus in Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics5 crédits 
 Master in business engineering, professional focus in Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics (Digital Business - double diplomation avec la Faculté des Sciences Appliquées)5 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Morgane Dumont, Célia Paquay, Virginie Xhauflair

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Provided that :

  • Supply chains have become global, complex and interconnected
  • In a context of geopolitical, environmental and legal instability as well as increasing global demand and consumerism
  • Supply chains are both contributing to, and threatened by pressure on the environment and access to resources, as well as inequalities and social pressure
Supply chains are increasingly prone to external shocks such as natural disasters, energy shortages, resources scarcity and limited access as well as cyber- dependency and geopolitical tensions. The challenges and threats are systemic and hence, complex.
The course aims to provide students with :

  • A deep understanding of complex and interconnected QES tensions and challenges in SCM
  • A critical outlook on practical situations and ability to formulate recommendations

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Students will leave the course with the ability to :

  • Identify and understand QES issues in the supply chain considering environmental, social and governance aspects
  • Map complex supply chain, identify all stakeholders and understand systemic interconnections in the supply chain
  • Take a critical outlook on practical situations and formulate recommendations
  • Apply tools and conceptual frameworks to manage potentially complex supply chains

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Fundamentals of supply chain management: production systems, logistics, inventories, and their relation with the strategic objectives of the firm.

Inferential statistics: confidence intervals.

Fundamentals of CSR & business ethics

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Various activities that require active participations of the students

Presentations by the lecturers and by guest speakers.

Attendance to a conference, workshop or other activity related to sustainability left to the choice of the students

Readings (professional and academic literature).

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Platform(s) used for course materials:
- LOL@

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions )


Further information:

The questions will relate to the learning outcomes based on the activities discussed in class and on the external activity. Therefore, although attendance at the sessions is not mandatory, it is clearly recommended.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Although attendance at the sessions is not mandatory, it is clearly recommended.

Contacts

Instructors: Morgane Dumont Morgane.Dumont@uliege.be , Célia Paquay cpaquay@uliege.be , Virginie Xhauflair V.Xhauflair@uliege.be

Pedagogical coordinator: Isaline Thirion I.Thirion@uliege.be 

 

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