Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

Academic content:
The role of the purchase in the value chain
-Industrial buying behaviour
-Management of the procurement process
-Procurement and management, operation and maintenance
-Purchase of services
-Introduction to Public procurement
-Vendor Market
-Market structures and survey of the supplier market
-Procurement and business strategy
-Introduction to Negotiation Technique
-Purchase and Quality management
-Supply and value chains
-Organization and structure of procurement
-Purchase measurements
-Procurement ethics
-Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Learning outcome:
Knowledge:
-The candidate should have understanding how the procurement function impacts the business goal fulfillment.
-The candidate should have basic knowledge of the role of the purchase in SCM.
The candidate should understand what supply strategy is.
-The candidate should have an understanding of different degrees of supplier cooperation
-candidate should be familiar with procurement techniques and routines
-The candidate should be familiar with the procedures for procurement and ICT.
-The candidate should be able to explain the general rules around public procurement Innebær

Skills:
-The candidate should be able to analyze procurement issues, and resolve these by applying different models and methods.
-The candidate should be able to consider various methods for securing procurement both by qualitative quantitative considerations.
-The candidate shall be able to conduct complete procurement processes with all the phases of the proceeding, including negotiations.

General competence:
-The candidate should be able to evaluate issues, and find appropriate methods of solution.
-The candidate should be able to provide a critical assessment of their own solutions of procurement problems.
-The candidate should have the ability to solve problems in collaboration with others as well as being able to communicate these.

Teaching methods and activities:Lectures, group assignments, role-playing, submission tasks.