Course description

Title of the Teaching Unit

Supply Chain Management

Code of the Teaching Unit

21GE038

Academic year

2025 - 2026

Cycle

Number of credits

Number of hours

Quarter

Weighting

Site

Anjou

Teaching language

English

Teacher in charge

ENGELBEEN Céline

Objectives and contribution to the program

• To give the students a detailed view of how Supply Chain Management is organised within a company: sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and planning (SCORE model)
• To teach them the concepts and techniques to analyse supply chains, and emphasising the use of quantitative methods and digitalisation to enable optimisation
• To make the students aware of the importance of Supply Chain Management, and its impact on Financial and Sustainable performance
• To provide the students with an understanding of
o The interconnections between the different stages of the supply chain
o The different supply chain complexities across industries

Prerequisites and corequisites

The students should have basic knowledge in Mathematic, Statistics and Operational Research.

Content

• Supply Chain Strategy
• Link between Supply Chain and financial and sustainable performance
• (Out)sourcing & procurement
• Lean six sigma
• Bottleneck: Theory of constraints
• Transportation & Supply Chain Network Design
• Bullwhip effect: Supply chain coordination
• Forecasting
• Supply Chain planning
• Inventory Management
• Issue Based Problem Solving
• Importance of IT in Supply Chain
• Complexity of different Supply Chain
• Forecasting and planification
• Scheduling

Teaching methods

• Lectures
• Case studies
• Business games
• Guest speakers
o ICHEC teachers (e.g. Operational Research, Sustainability, Digital, …)
o Industry experts (e.g. CEO, COO, CPO, …)

Assessment method

• Final written exams for each AA

References

• Basics of Supply Chain Management – APICS
• Supply Chain Management - Sunil Chopra & Peter Meindl