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| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
(*)KS Grundlagen des Supply Chain Management oder die Zulassung zum Masterstudium „Wirtschaftsinformatik“ oder zum Masterstudium „Economic and Business Analytics“
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| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme Business Administration 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| Learning Outcomes
Students are familiar with the concepts, models and methods of production and supply chain planning, design and control. They are able to formulate strategic, tactical and operational supply chain planning problems in a structured manner, identify and apply suitable modeling approaches and solution procedures, and check the plausibility of the results obtained and interpret them.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
Learning Outcomes
- LO2: Students are able to explain the quantitative modeling and solution approaches covered in the areas of facility location, supply chain and network design, inventory management, forecasting, aggregate planning and master scheduling, MRP and ERP, scheduling in high- and low-volume systems, project management, management of waiting lines, revenue management and dynamic pricing, and supply chain coordination and contract design.
- LO3: Students are able to solve small problems by hand using the appropriate algorithmic approaches.
- LO4: Students are able to formulate the optimization problems covered in a structured mathematical manner.
- LO5: Students are able to solve the optimization problems covered (with Excel Solver) on small and medium-sized data sets and to check and interpret the results obtained.
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Learning Outcomes
- LO1: Students know the basic modeling concepts and solution algorithms for the strategic, tactical and operational planning problems in production and along the supply chain. (see course content).
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Overall, students have the opportunity to achieve 100 points (90% exam, 10% quizzes). At least 45 points must be achieved on the exam to successfully complete the course.
The following grading scheme is used:
| Points | Grade |
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| 87.5-100.0 | Very good |
| 75.0-87.0 | Good |
| 62.5-74.5 | Satisfactory |
| 50.0-62.0 | Sufficient |
| 0-49.5 | Not sufficient |
Exam:
- Individual exam; a repeat exam is offered. The exam consists of both theoretical and practical questions (modeling/application of solution algorithms).
Quizzes:
- Weekly quizzes on the content covered.
Synchronization of learning outcomes and assessment:
- LO1: exam+quiz
- LO2: exam
- LO3: exam+quizzes
- LO4: exam+quizzes
- LO5: exam+quizzes
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| Methods |
The course uses a combination of different teaching methods to:
- maximize student motivation and attention.
- achieve the learning objectives in the best didactically possible way.
This includes the following:
- Information input by the teacher, supported by slides and literature
- Development of content in collaboration with the students on the board.
- Development of solutions to practice problems in small groups followed by joint discussion.
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| Language |
English and French |
| Study material |
- Slides
- Short video sequences
- Literature: Stevenson, WJ : Operations Management. McGraw-Hill Education Ltd; in the current edition; Chopra, S: Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operation; in the current edition, selected chapters from Nahmias S, Olsen, TL: Production and Operations Analysis, in the current edition.
- References to further reading
(Material is made available via Moodle)
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Further information |
We recommend to attend KS and IK “Operations and Supply Chain Management” in the same semester.
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| Corresponding lecture |
(*)572PLMMPROK15: KS Produktion (3 ECTS)
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