Responsible Lecturers: R. Nijland
Degree Course: IBMS
Theme: Supply Chain Management
Quartiles: 2.3 & 2.4
ECTS: 3
Competencies: 5 Performance indicators 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4
1. Relationship with the professional field
In the professional field you must be able to make planning decisions within the area of production.
Basic knowledge about resource related questions that require planning procedures should be available. The relationship between (limited) resources and the required production quantity should become clear for students. Applied to
2. Relationship with the theme
Supply Chain Management concerns all the movements of products and the use of resources within a company. It deals with planning and decision making. For the long term (aggregate planning level) as well as the short term you must be able to identify, plan and measure input and output in any planning process within a company. Planning can be used for all kinds of resources inside or outside a company.
3. Objectives
The student will be able to make planning decisions on basis of several kinds of information. He can distinguish between different planning methodologies and make a breakdown from an aggregate planning into day-to-day planning schedules including purchasing, production and delivery and the related stock-holding policy..
4. Assessments and grading
The student will be assessed by means of a written exam. In this exam the student will have to apply his knowledge to solve a number of case studies. Two company visits will require a written report on certain topics, shown during the visits. This reports will be seen as one exercise of the exam. Furthermore, the knowledge will be tested by means of a number of exercises within the project of IBMS 4.
5. Working Method
Classes and self-study will provide the student with theoretical background on the subject of Supply Chain