Objectives and competences
Objectives of the course are:
• The realization and understanding that managed IT is the responsibility of the management structure and administration and covers management, organizational systems, and processes that ensure that IT maintains and upgrades business strategies and goals of the company independently and as an article of the supply chain.
• Using control goals that define the ultimate goal of introducing policies, plans, and procedures, as well as organizational structures designed to ensure a reasonable guarantee that they are IT:
o Business goals realized;
o Adverse events prevented or discovered and eliminated
at the level of an individual company and, to a greater extent, at the level of the supply chain.
• Knowing and understanding principles, business models, and the integration of digitization business in the supply chain.
• Develop skills to distinguish, evaluate and use different concepts and approaches, and technologies that allow the digitization business of supply chains.
• Recognize various technologies, frames, and standards that are updated in the field of e-business in logistics and supply chains
• Use concise and timely information to quickly and successfully make decisions on values, risks, and controls in the supply chain of digitized business through IT tools and legislation.
Competences, that students acquire:
• knowledge of different theoretical, research, and methodological approaches in the application of e-business concepts, techniques, and lifecycles and be able to participate in the day-to-day tasks of digitizing business in supply chains actively;
• the ability to critically evaluate/assess and categorize the use of IT technologies, frameworks, standards, and legislation in a real-life example of supply chain digitization business in supply chain;
• the ability to identify, research, and improve existing approaches to digitizing business of the supply chain, with the possibility of validating new methods through real-life implementation and/or simulation of real-life environments.
Content (Syllabus outline)
1. Introduction and definition of the area
2. E-business provides performance, efficiency, confidentiality, integrity, availability, consistency, and reliability of information for an individual organization within the supply chain.
3. Digital supply chain value chain.
4. Trends and solutions of digitization business in the modern supply chain (all on the Internet (IoT) and massive data (Big Data); autonomous things (agents, devices, vehicles) and digital duplicates; marginal computing; cloud computing; blockchain technology (blockchain )
5. Strategies and legislation that ensure the successful realization of the digitization business of the supply chain and provide a legal framework for its operation.
6. Operation of data centers - owned and/or rented as a service.
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures: students understand the theoretical frameworks of the course. Part of the lecture course is in a classroom while the rest is in the form of e-learning (e-lectures may be given via video-conferencing or with the help of specially designed e-material in a virtual electronic learning environment).
Tutorials: Students enhance their theoretical knowledge and are able to apply it. Part of the seminar is in a classroom while the rest is in the form of e-learning (e-tutorials may be given via video-conferencing or with the help of specially designed e-material in a virtual electronic learning environment).
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, students will:
• identify, define, and explain the importance of digitizing business in supply chains;
• analyze, interpret, and plan digitization using different technologies and approaches within the supply chain;
• be able to explore the meaning of the concepts of the organizational aspect of digitalization business, describe it and argue for its application to the achievement of the organization's business objectives;
• differentiate legislation and regulation on digitalization business in organizations;
• list and interpret the legislation and regulations on digitalization business and apply them to the example of e-business in supply chains;
• propose, plan, and organize the deployment of digitization business solutions within the supply chain in collaboration with the organization's top management.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
Transferable/key skills and other attributes:
Students are trained to apply theoretical knowledge to practical (business) situations.
Readings
1. Meier, A. & Stormer, H. (2010). Business & eCommerce: Managing the Digital Value Chain. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89328-8
2. Jereb, B. (2019). Informatika in informacijska varnost: repetitorij (1. izd.). Univerzitetna založba; Fakulteta za logistiko. http://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/385
3. Zakon o elektronskem poslovanju in elektronskem podpisu (ZEPEP). (2004, 2006, 2014, 2021, 2022). Uradni list RS, (98/04, 61/06, 46/14, 121/21, 130/22). https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO1973
4. Zakon o elektronskem poslovanju na trgu (ZEPT). (2009, 2015, 2021, 2023, 2024). Uradni list RS, (96/09, 19/15, 189/21, 18/23, 30/24). https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO4600
5. Zakon o elektronski identifikaciji in storitvah zaupanja (ZEISZ). (2021, 2023). Uradni list RS, (121/21, 189/21, 18/23). https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO7550
6. Zakon o varstvu dokumentarnega in arhivskega gradiva ter arhivih (ZVDAGA). (2006, 2014). Uradni list RS, (30/06, 51/14). https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO4284
7. Zakon o varstvu osebnih podatkov (ZVOP-2). (2022). Uradni list RS, (163/22). https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO7959
8. Zakon o informacijski varnosti (ZInfV). (2018, 2021, 2022, 2023). Uradni list RS, (30/18, 95/21, 130/22, 18/23, 49/23). https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO7707
9. COBIT 5: a business framework for the governance and management of enterprise IT. (2012). ISACA.
10. European Council. (2024, May 22). A digital future for Europe. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/a-digital-future-for-europe/
Additional information on implementation and assessment Successful completion of e-lectures and e-tutorials is a prerequisite for entering the exam.
Written examination 30%.
Presentation of a research work 70%.
