Objectives and competences
The objectives of the course are:
• understanding of scientific research work in the field of supply chain research,
• knowledge of management approaches (tasks and challenges of effective supply chain management), management and control of comprehensive supply chains,
• understanding of internal processes and supply chain relationships,
• understanding the modeling of internal processes and optimizing the state of extended supply chains.
Competences: the student can use knowledge in supply chains (internal processes, relationships, modeling of internal processes and management) both for the needs of scientific research and practice.
Content (Syllabus outline)
Academic research in the field of supply chains, logistics systems, and logistics chains and socio-economic and technological logistics trends.
• Philosophy of managing, operating and controlling integrated supply chains.
• Determining tasks and challenges of effective supply chain management.
• Studying internal processes and relationships of supply chains.
• Modeling and optimizing integrated and sustainable supply chain situations.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Upon successful completion of this course, students can:
• use solutions for the management, administration, and control of comprehensive care,
• interpret the research field of logistics systems and logistics chains,
• evaluate the practicality of the results of their research work,
• apply the results of their scientific work in the field of supply chains in practice,
• develop models of internal processes and optimization of the state of comprehensive supply chains.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/Key Skills and other attributes:
Communication skills, capability of application of knowledge, capability of discussion, skills about creative researching of reality, capacity to practical use of knowledge and development of capacity for systems thinking.
Readings
Chopra, S., & Meindl, P. (2016). Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operation (6th ed., global ed., str. 528). Pearson..
Burritt, L. B., Schaltegger, S., Bennett, M., Pohjola, T. & Csutora, M. (Eds.). (2011). Environmental Management Accounting and Supply Chain Management. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1390-1
Ballou, R. H. (2004). Business logistics/supply chain management: planning, organizing, and controlling the supply chain (5th, international ed. izd.). Pearson Education International; Prentice Hall.
Jacobs, F. R., Berry, W. L., Whybark, D. C., & Vollmann, T. E. (2024). Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management: The CPIM Reference (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill.
Obrecht, M. (2020). Life cycle management in supply chains: integrating environmental life cycle thinking into supply chain management: visokošolski učbenik (1. izd.). Fakulteta za logistiko Univerze v Mariboru. https://fl.um.si/knjiznica/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/E-BOOK-Obrecht_2020-LCMinSC-FINAL.pdf
Obrecht, M., Cvahte Ojsteršek, T., Čuček, M., Fale, M., Orel Šanko, N., Vičič, P., Slomšek Šlamberger, B., & Pavić, L. (2024). Oskrbovalne verige znanja: smernice za zeleni in digitalni prehod (1. izd.). Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba. https://doi.org/10.18690/um.fl.2.2024
