Duration
45h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Supply chain management is defined as a set of approaches utilized to efficiently coordinate all the organizational units along a supply chain in order to improve the competitiveness of a supply chain as a whole. Logistics management is that part of supply chain management that plans, implements, and controls the effective flow and storage of goods, services, and related information in order to meet customer requirements. This course treats the fundamental topics of logistics and supply chain management: supply chain network design, distribution strategies in supply chains, production process design and facility layout, aggregate production planning, managing inventories in supply chains, master production scheduling and material requirements planning, value of information in supply chains (bullwhip effect).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
In relation with the Assurance of Learning process of HEC Liège, the learning objectives adressed in this course are:
- Strategy: This course will help students to establish a strategy in order to optimize the value chain of a company, an organization or a project.
- Strategy: This course will help students to understand the scientific and technological context of the situation they are confronted with.
- Strategy: This course will help students to demonstrate scientific precision and a critical mind.
- Implementation: This course will train the student to take into account the scientific, technological and entrepreneurial dimensions of the situation they are confronted with.
- Implementation: This course will exercise students in the ability to take advantage of data digitalization.
- Quality and Performance Control: This course will help students to plan and implement the performance and quality control in a company, an organization or a project.
- Quality and Performance Control: This course will develop students' ability to use the appropriate analytical tools when analysing a complex management situation.
- Communication: This course will allow students to improve their proficiency in one foreign language.
- Adaptability: This course will encourage students to be curious and to show a scientific precision of academic level.
- To acquire a basic knowledge about strategic, tactical, and operational problems of supply chain management.
- To understand the effects of supply chain management decisions on a firm's performance.
- To understand the difficulties of supply chain management.
- To acquire a basic knowledge about the quantitative methods and techniques of decision aid used in supply chains.
- To be able to solve elementary logistical problems using these techniques.
- To be able to recognize the situations where these techniques can be used as decision making tools and to interpret correctly the conclusions which can be derived using these techniques.
- To understand the limitations of these techniques.
- To be able to use tools like AIMMS and Excel to treat logistical problems.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Basic notions of mathematics, statistics, and operations research models
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures: Wooclap sessions and discussions are organized within the lecture hours.
Exercise sessions: Exercise sessions are organized to prepare students to the written exam and to assist students in their group project. Students are also provided with some numerical exercises and their solutions through the virtual campus LOla as the chapters are treated during the semester.
Invited speakers: A session is devoted to the presentations of invited speakers working in supply chain management related domains. The aim of the session is to inform students about the carrier opportunities and the responsibilities of supply chain specialists.
Simulation game: A special session is organized to play the "Wood Supply Game" which is designed to make students aware of the dynamics of supply chains and to illustrate the bullwhip effect.
Group project: Students are wanted to analyze a realistic logistical problem (which is by definition more challenging than the exercises studied during the course) using mathematical programming techniques and tools like AIMMS and Excel.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
Documents that can be found on the virtual campus Lol@:
1. Syllabus: The course notes and the presentations used during the lectures can be found on the virtual campus LOla. Students are wanted to be in possession of these documents during the lectures.
2. Exercises: Students are provided with some numerical exercises that they can use to practice their knowledge and to prepare themselves for the written exam as the chapters are treated during the semester.
Recommended references :
[1] Simchi-Levi D., Kaminsky P. and E. Simchi-Levi, Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies, McGraw-Hill, 2nd edition, Boston, 2003.
[2] Chopra S. and P. Meindl, Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operation, Printice Hall, 3rd edition, New Jersey, 2007.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Additional information:
Group project (~20%): Students work in small groups of three to four students. For the second session, if the concerned student wants to resubmit a project (alone this time), he/she has to contact the lecturer. If such a request is not received until an acceptable date, the project grade obtained in the first session is automatically taken into account to calculate the second session grade of the course.
Written exam (~80%): The written exam is composed of two parts.The questions of the first part are similar to the numerical exercises studied during the course. The second part is composed of multiple choice theoretical questions. In the second session, an oral exam can be organized instead of a written one, depending on the number of students.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
The course is given during the second semester.
The course is given in English.
Contacts
Lecturer:
Yasemin ARDA (yasemin.arda@uliege.be)
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
Campus LOl@
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