Logistics and SCM (Supply Chain Management)

- The logistics and SCM concept
- Global supply chains
- Logistics and customer value
- Relationships and strategies within supply chains
- Logistics activities - transport, inventory and materials handling
- Purchasing and procurement
- SCM, complexity and vulnerability
- Responsiveness, integration and profitability in the supply chain

Knowledge:
- Master core terminology within logistics and supply chain management
- Identify and describe various logistics challenges
- Explain how logistics and supply chain management can be used to to enhance a company's competitive advantage
- Account for various strategies within logistics and supply chain managment

Skills:
- Use course insight to describe complexity and vulnerability in the supply chain

Teaching methods:
Lectures, group assignments, case presentations and discussions.

   
Mandatory assignment:
One mandatory group assignments must be approved prior to the written exam.

Passed mandatory exercise is valid for later continuation exams.