Description du cours

Intitulé de l'Unité d'Enseignement

Supply Chain Management

Code de l'Unité d'Enseignement

21GE038

Année académique

2025 - 2026

Cycle

MASTER

Nombre de crédits

Nombre heures

Quadrimestre

Pondération

Site

Anjou

Langue d'enseignement

Anglais

Enseignant responsable

ENGELBEEN Céline

Objectifs et contribution de l'Unité d'Enseignement au programme

• 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

Prérequis et corequis

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

Description du contenu

• 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

Méthodes pédagogiques

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

Mode d'évaluation

• Final written exams for each AA

Références bibliographiques

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