Supply Chain Management 1 / Supply Chain Management 1

Department of Technology and Innovation, Odense
Teaching activity id: X-SCM1-U02.
Teaching language: English.ECTS / weighting: 5 ECTS / 0.083 full-time equivalent.
Period: Spring 2015.Approved: 10-04-14.
Offered in: Odense.

Subject director:
Associate Professor Henrik Johnsen Vindt, Department of Technology and Innovation.

Prerequisites:
For PDI: students 3rd semester evaluated

Content - Key areas:
The course provides the student with knowledge and understanding of the design and operation of a company supply chain and how it is positioned in the global supply chain.


Learning outcomes:
Knowledge:

  • Lean Philosophy - Lean Thinking.
  • Value Stream Mapping.
  • Preparing for Flow.
  • Making a Current state and a Future State mapping.
  • Materials Management.
  • Production planning system.
  • Master Scheduling.
  • Manufacturing Resource Planning (Bill of Materials).
  • The Supply Chain Concept,
  • Capacity Management.
  • Production activity Control.
  • Inventory Fundamentals. (ABC analysis)
  • Logistics and supply chain.
  • Value and logistics cost.
  • Supply chain planning and control.
  • Managing logistics internationally.
  • Managing the Lead time frontier.
  • Integrating the supply Chain
  • Supply chain relationships

Skills:

  • be able to draw a current state map and a future state map
  • be able to analyze bottlenecks and calculate alternatives
  • be capable of decomposing strategic goals and forecast into internal production plans
  • be able to describe the knowledge of planning systems on different levels
  • be capable of converting production plan to control schedules
  • be able to describe management of inventory
  • be able to describe the flow of materials from sales order to costumer
  • be able to create a supply plan of make and buy products/components
  • be able to analyze the potential for cooperation in a supply chain

Competences:

  • Conduct a value stream map based on analysis leading to an optimized solution
  • Break a customer order to the procurement requirements.
  • Design a simple supply chain and make the necessary analyses


Time of classes:
Spring and Autumn.

Lessons:
48 hours

Evaluation
Evaluation based on an oral individual examination with co-examiner. Mark according to the Danish 7-point grading scale.


Programmes:
MSc in Engineering (PDI)
1. semester, exchange, elective subject. Offered in: Odense
MSc in Engineering (PDI)
4. semester, mandatory. Offered in: Odense