Information on individual educational components (ECTS-Course descriptions) per semester | |
| Degree programme: | Bachelor International Business Administration Part-time |
| Type of degree: | FH Bachelor´s Degree Programme |
| Part-time | |
| Winter Semester 2025 | |
| Course unit title | Principles of Supply Chain Management |
| Course unit code | 025008031301 |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Compulsory |
| Semester when the course unit is delivered | Winter Semester 2025 |
| Teaching hours per week | 3 |
| Year of study | 2025 |
| Level of course unit (e.g. first, second or third cycle) | First Cycle (Bachelor) |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 4 |
| Name of lecturer(s) | Michael MAYER |
| Prerequisites and co-requisites |
Successful completion of the courses Procurement, Production and Logistics as well as Cost and Performance Accounting. Confidence in activity-based costing |
| Course content |
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| Learning outcomes |
Cost and competitive advantages in companies usually arise from international value chains. The correct design of the supply chain (source, make, deliver and return) is essential. Students of the International Business Administration degree programme deepen the knowledge and skills acquired in the course Procurement, Production and Logistics and focus on production logistics, lean production and distribution logistics as well as planning. The students know the basic terms, tasks and goals of Supply Chain Management (SCM), prerequisites, effects as well as potentials of SCM are made known. The SCORE model, its structure and contents can be described. The students experience the effects and causes of the bullwhip effect and can discuss it. Causes for waste as well as their effects can be discussed and explained. The students can explain measures to reduce the bullwhip effect and apply them in the simulation.Basic procedures and concepts of lean production and CIP can be implemented in a simulation and the results discussed. The problem-solving cycle as a method can be practised and internalised in the context of the simulations. The students are able to identify and describe problems from the simulations/cases, relevant KPIs can be analysed and interpreted as a measure of success of a change. Students will be able to use different known principles and procedures from SCM to design improved processes and to argue and document the decisions. The solutions to the problems can be translated into a sustainable and sound concept. |
| Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
Interactive course with lecture, case studies, exercises in individual and group work, realization of a simulation game, participation in an excursion. |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
Written exam, written paper, individual weighting according to the instructors, announcement at the beginning of the semester |
| Comment |
Specific times of the excursions, locations and cost will be announced at the beginning of this course. |
| Recommended or required reading |
Schulte, Christian (2016): Logistik – Wege zur Optimierung der Supply Chain. München: Vahlen. Ehrmann, Harald (2017): Logistik. Herne: NWB. Kummer, Sebastian; Grün, Oskar; Jammernegg, Werner (2018): Grundzüge der Beschaffung, Produktion und Logistik. München: Pearson. Werner, Hartmut (2020): Supply Chain Management: Grundlagen, Strategien, Instrumente und Controlling. Springer: Wiesbaden. |
| Mode of delivery (face-to-face, distance learning) |
Classes with compulsory attendance in individual teaching units (simulation game, seminars, excursions) supplemented by asynchronous teaching units for the presentation of elementary basics, which are assumed as given knowledge |
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