Supply chain in commercial company

EM05HM24B1

Program
PGE
PGE 2A - SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
UE
Supply chain in commercial company
Semester
B
Discipline
Supply chain management
Contact hours
27 H
Number of spots
45
ECTS
5
Open to visitors
Yes
Language
Coordinator
Eric REINHARD


Pedagogical contribution of the course to the program

LEARNING GOAL 1 : Students will master state-of-the-art knowledge and tools in management fields in general, as well as in areas specific to the specialized field of management.

Students will identify a business organization’s operational and managerial challenges in a complex and evolving environment.
Students will understand state-of-the-art management concepts and tools and use them appropriately.
Students will implement appropriate methodologies to develop appropriate solutions for business issues.

Description

Course aim: Get familiar with the Supply Chain Strategy, its challenges, and its operational applications. Course description: Supply Chain Management continues to transform the competitive landscape and has become a key business issue for companies. A concrete and operational approach. Intended learning objectives: - Identify how supply chains are structured - Make the link between the company's core strategy and the supply chain - Apply the supply chain English vocabulary - Understand the benefits of collaboration within supply chains - Improve the supply chain performance, by understanding the challenges.

Teaching methods

Face-to-face

- Lectures
- Tutorials

In group

- Exercises

Interaction

- Discussions/debates
- Games (educational, role play, simulation)

Others

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Learning objectives

Cognitive domain

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to
  • - (level 1) acquire the supply chain English vocabulary
  • - (level 2) elaborate a scoreboard and map a supply chain
  • - (level 3) discover how to structure a supply chain with the SCOR Model provided by the ASCM APICS.
  • - (level 3) apply

Affective domain

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to
  • - (level 1) choose the good KPI's and Best Practices.
  • - (level 2) discuss how the S&OP supports the Business Plan achievement
  • - (level 4) analyze how to reduce the inventory by appliying advanced supply chain practices.

Outline

Day 1: Strategy and Supply Chain for commercial companies. Day 2: The SCOR Model: how to model a Supply-Chain with SCOR Day 3: Improve SC performance with metrics and best practices Day 4-5: The Beer Game and Working together (Sales and Operations Planning process, VMI) Day 6-7: The working capital challenge: Inventory management, SC future levers of success and challenges. Day 7: Business Analytics applied to commercial companies.

No prerequisite has been provided

Knowledge in / Key concepts to master

Excel. Basic Business knowledge.

Teaching material

Mandatory tools for the course

- Computer
- Calculator
- Reference manuals

Documents in all formats


- Case studies/texts

Moodle platform

- Upload of class documents
- Interface to submit coursework

Software

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Additional electronic platforms

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Recommended reading


S.Cohen, J.Roussel, Strategic Supply Chain Management, ed. McGraw-Hill; 2nd Ed. 2013


Hau L. Lee et V. Padmanabhan, « Information distortion in a supply chain: The bullwhip effect », Management Science 43, no 4 (avril 1997): 546. Thomé, A. M. T., Scavarda, L. F., Fernandez, N. S., & Scavarda, A. J. (2012). Sales and operations planning: A research synthesis. International journal of production economics, 138(1), 1-13. Benjamin T. Hazen et al., « Data quality for data science, predictive analytics, and big data in supply chain management: An introduction to the problem and suggestions for research and applications », International Journal of Production Economics 154 (1 août 2014): 72‑80 Wang Xun, Disney Stephen M., “ The bullwhip effect:Progress,trends and directions”, European Journal of Operational Research 250 (2016) : 691-701 Gang Wang et al., « Big data analytics in logistics and supply chain management: Certain investigations for research and applications », International Journal of Production Economics 176 (1 juin 2016)

EM Research: Be sure to mobilize at least one resource

Textbooks, case studies, translated material, etc. can be entered
Reinhard Eric, PhD Thesis : Contribution méthodologique à l’introduction du Lean Office dans un service support de gestion des approvisionnements. http://www.theses.fr/22379242X (2017)

Assessment

List of assessment methods

Final evaluationOther (date, pop quiz, etc.) : 15 jours après le dernier cours
Written (300 Min.) / Individual / English / Weight : 100 %
Details : Travail individuel, rédaction d'un Executive Summary synthétisant les connaissances acquises. Rendu 15 jours après le dernier cours.
This evaluation is used to measure LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3, LO2.2, LO2.3, LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3, LO2.2, LO2.3, LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3, LO2.2, LO2.3, LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3, LO2.2, LO2.3, LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3, LO2.2, LO2.3, LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3, LO2.2, LO2.3, LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3, LO2.2, LO2.3
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