Teachers
Prof. Per J.Agrell, Prof. Pierre Semal, Prof. Philippe Chevalier
Assistant
Mathias Lorenz
Language
English/French
Semester
Fall 2007
Assessment
Written exam (+ class presentations)
Main themes
This introductory course provides a strategic, industrial organisational and decision making framework for the major in supply chain management. By using in-depth knowledge from the fields of operations management, operations research and economics, valuable insight can be given for complex, integrated real-life problems.
Aims
The major learning objectives of the course are to:
- Distinguish strategic, tactic and operational problems in SCM.
- Be able to relate to industrial practice in inter-organisational coordination of supply chains
- Understand basic industrial economic analysis of the supply chain relations.
- Identify, formulate, solve and critically review some strategic problems in the supply chain.
- Understand how uncertainty affects operations in a supply chain and how to cope with it
Website
Notes, slides, questions to cases, datafiles and certain articles above are available from iCampus under the course LSMS2105/LSMS2005 heading
Program
Prerequisites
Introductory courses in microeconomics, operations management, operations research, industrial organization and statistics.
