GRA 6722 Current Issues in Supply Chain and Operations Management
GRA 6722 Current Issues in Supply Chain and Operations Management
Any company or organization in todays business, civilian and public sector landscape is linked to other organisations, whether it is suppliers, customers, logistics service providers, or other intermediaries. The performance of the individual firm or organization depends on its partners’ strength and weaknesses. Globalisation, digitalization, and focus on sustainability are having a significant impact on all sectors and its supply chain members. Particularly it creates strategic challenges concerning positioning, supply chain integration, risk management, and supply network configuration and organisation. The objective of the course is to provide students with insight into these strategic challenges, and how to approach some of them.
- To gain knowledge of selected current issues
- To gain understanding of logistics, supply chain and operations management research perspectives
- To gain knowledge of business case approaches
- Ability to apply supply chain and operation management models and frameworks in different settings
- Ability to compare and critique different sources and approaches
- Ability to communicate in the range of logistics, supply chain and operations management professionals
- Appreciate and understand multiple perspectives in supply chain and operations management
- Ability to be a reflective practitioner
The intention with the course is to help students to apply and further develop knowledge gained from previous courses in logistics, supply chain and operations management. The course provides lectures on current issues and approaches and perspectives to research in logistics, supply chain and operations management. A key part of the course is the undertaking of business cases. The course provides students with a framework of how to develop such in real life settings.
The course combines theory, practical examples, and interactional learning, and students are expected to actively participate through task assignments, presentations, and discussions.
Please note that while attendance is not compulsory in all courses, it is the student’s own responsibility to obtain any information provided in class.
This is a course with continuous assessment (several exam components) and one final exam code. Each exam component is graded by using points on a scale from 0-100. The components will be weighted together according to the information in the course description in order to calculate the final letter grade for the examination code (course). Students who fail to participate in one/some/all exam elements will get a lower grade or may fail the course. You will find detailed information about the point system and the cut off points with reference to the letter grades when the course starts.
At resit, all exam components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course.
All courses in the Masters programme will assume that students have fulfilled the admission requirements for the programme. In addition, courses in second, third and/or fourth semester can have spesific prerequisites and will assume that students have followed normal study progression. For double degree and exchange students, please note that equivalent courses are accepted.
Covid-19
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there may be deviations in teaching and learning activities as well as exams, compared with what is described in this course description.
Teaching
Information about what is taught on campus and other digital forms will be presented with the lecture plan before the start of the course each semester.
The course is only open to students majoring in supply chain and operations management.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Written submission Weight: 60 Grouping: Group (2 - 10) Duration: 1 Semester(s) Exam code: GRA67223 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
Exam category: Activity Form of assessment: Class participation Weight: 40 Grouping: Individual Duration: 1 Semester(s) Exam code: GRA67223 Grading scale: Point scale leading to ECTS letter grade Resit: All components must, as a main rule, be retaken during next scheduled course |
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
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Teaching | 24 Hour(s) | |
Student's own work with learning resources | 20 Hour(s) | |
Group work / Assignments | 36 Hour(s) | |
Submission(s) | 80 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 6 ECTS credits corresponds to a workload of at least 160 hours.
Group size is depending on class size.