Facility Location and Strategic Supply Chain Management
- type: Lecture
- chair: Nickel
- semester: Diploma, Bachelor-Specialization, Master
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place:
Tulla HS (1st floor), Building 11.40 (Kollegien am Ehrenhof)
- time: Tuesday, 14:00-15:30
- start: 19.04.2011
- lecturer: Professor Stefan Nickel
- sws: 2
- lv-no.: 2550486
- exam: Written examination on 03.08.2011
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information:
The lecture starts in the second week of lecture time.
Please see the prerequisite for admission to examination below.
The registration to the online exercises is possible on the ILIAS system.
Contents
Since the classical work “Theory of the Location of Industries” of Weber from 1909, the determination of an optimal location of a new facility with respect to existing customers is strongly connected to strategical logistics planning. Strategic decisions concerning the location of facilities as production plants, distribution centers or warehouses are of high importance for the rentability of supply chains. Thoroughly carried out, location planning allows an efficient flow of materials and leads to lower costs and increased customer service.
Subject of the course is an introduction to the most important terms and definitions in location planning as well as the presentation of basic quantitative location planning models. Furthermore, specialized location planning models for Supply Chain Management will be addressed as they are part in many commercial SCM tools for strategic planning tasks.
Outline
- Introduction
- Methods of Location Evaluation
- Classical Facility Location:
o Planar (continuous) models
o Network models
o Discrete models - Territory Design
- Location models in SCM:
o Single-period models
o Multi-period
Learning goals
The lecture covers basic quantitative methods in location planning in the context of strategic Supply Chain Planning. Besides the discussion of several criteria for the evaluation of the locations of facilities, the students are acquainted with classical location planning models (planar models, network models and discrete models) and advanced location planning models designed for Supply Chain Management (single-period and multi-period models).The exercises accompanying the lecture offer the possibility to apply the considered models to practical problems.
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: 16.05.-22.05.
- 2. Online exercise: 30.05.-05.06.
- 3. Online exercise: 13.06.-19.06.
- 4. Online exercise: 27.06.-03.07.
- 5. Online exercise: 11.07.-17.07.
- 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
- Daskin: Network and Discrete Location: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, Wiley, 1995
- Domschke, Drexl: Logistik: Standorte, 4. Auflage, Oldenbourg, 1996
- Francis, McGinnis, White: Facility Layout and Location: An Analytical Approach, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1992
- Love, Morris, Wesolowsky: Facilities Location: Models and Methods, North Holland, 1988
- Thonemann: Operations Management - Konzepte, Methoden und Anwendungen, Pearson Studium, 2005