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Course title Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management
Course code EBC1029
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
5 14-4-2025 8-6-2025 L X X
Level Introductory
Coordinator Tom Schiefer
For more information: t.schiefer@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
* Students obtain basic insight in operations and Supply Chain Management
* Students understand relations between OSCM with other functions of the organization
* Students apply operations and supply chain insights in an analysis of a real company
* Students practice and receive constructive feedback about their role as discussion leader and their individual paper.
* Students apply basic project management skills
Description
In this course, students gain knowledge and insights on the basic elements of supply chain management, for instance about different strategies such as make-to-order and make-to-stock. They learn to apply this knowledge to real-life cases and a company project. Part of the problem solving will involve mathematical exercises, in which they apply certain formulas or statistics to derive a precise answer to a supply chain issue, such as how much inventory a company should have.
Literature
The textbook for this course is: • Swink, M., S.A. Melnyk, and J.L. Hartley. 2020. Managing Operations across the Supply Chain. Fourth edition. McGraw Hill Education. ISBN: 9781260547634
Prerequisites
An advanced level of English
Basic Statistics
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Lecture / Groupwork / Research
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Participation / Written Exam / Presentation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Bachelor International Business - Emerging Markets Year 1 Compulsory Course(s)
Bachelor International Business Year 1 Compulsory Course(s)
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