Tactical and operational Supply Chain Management
- type: Lecture
- chair: Nickel
- semester: Diploma, Bachelor (Specialization), Master
-
place:
HS 37 (1st floor), Building 20.40 (Architecture Building)
-
time:
Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:30
- start: 18.10.2011
- lecturer:
- sws: 2
- lv-no.: 2550488
- exam: Written examination on Tuesday 28.02.2012 from 8:00 to 10:00
-
information:
Please see the prerequisites for admission to examination below.
Contents
The planning of material transport is an essential element of Supply Chain Management. By linking transport connections across different facilities, the material source (production plant) is connected with the material sink (customer).
The general supply task can be formulated as follows (cf. Gudehus): For given material flows or shipments, choose the optimal (in terms of minimal costs) distribution and transportation chain from the set of possible logistics chains, which asserts the compliance of delivery times and further constraints. The main goal of the inventory management is the optimal determination of order quantities in terms of minimization of fixed and variable costs subject to resource constraints, supply availability and service level requirements. Similarly, the problem of lot sizing in production considers the determination of the optimal amount of products to be produced in a time slot.
The course includes an introduction to basic terms and definitions of Supply Chain Management and a presentation of fundamental quantitative planning models for distribution, vehicle routing, inventory management and lot sizing. Furthermore, case studies from practice will be discussed in detail.
Prerequisite for admission to examination: Online exercise
The passing of online exercises is a prerequisite for admission to the examination and an opportunity to get bonus points for the exam.
For students, who have their second trial on this exam, the participation in this program is not a prerequisite, but they also can reach bonus points for the exam by solving the online exercises.
- Every Online exercise will be activated for 7 days. Planned dates (Subject to change without notice):
- 1. Online exercise: 16.11.-22.11.
- 2. Online exercise: 30.11.-06.12.
- 3. Online exercise: 14.12.-20.12.
- 4. Online exercise: 18.01.-24.01.
- 5. Online exercise: 08.02.-14.02.
- After starting an exercise there is a time slot to finish this exercise.
- All tools are allowed.
- There will be 5 online exercises. 3 of them have to be passed to get the admission to the final exam.
- An Online exercise is passed if 40% of the points are reached.
- Overall it is possible to get a bonus of 10 points for the final exam. (The final exam will have 120 points)
- For every online exercise it is possible to get 2 bonus points.
- The reached bonus points are added und rounded to the next half point.
- The bonus is also added to failed exams.
- The bonus is valid for the first and the second trial of the exam.
Literature
- Domschke: Logistik: Transporte, 5. Auflage, Oldbourg, 2005
- Domschke: Logistik: Rundreisen und Touren, 4. Auflage, Oldenbourg, 1997
- Ghiani, Laporte, Musmanno: Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control, Wiley, 2004
- Gudehus: Logistik, 3. Auflage, Springer, 2005
- Simchi-Levi, Kaminsky, Simchi-Levi: Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2008
- Silver, Pyke, Peterson: Inventory management and production planning and scheduling, 3rd edition, Wiley, 1998