Faculty of Business Management and Economics Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods

14/19

Name:

Strategic Management of Global Supply Chains

Responsible:

Professor Richard Pibernik, Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods

Program: Type: Term: ECTS:

Master Lecture Summer 5 CP

Time and Venue:

Will be announced on SB@home and on

http://www.wiwi.uni-wuerzburg.de/lehrstuhl/bwl11/teaching/master/strategic_management_of_global_supply_chains/

Block course, 4 complete days

Contents & Objectives: Large-scale as well as medium-sized companies have progressively globalized their value creation activities over the past years. They operate in global markets – both in procuring goods and services as well as in dealing with customers. At the same time, many companies have outsourced fundamental parts of their value creation to partners (i.e. suppliers, logistics service providers, etc.). In order to decrease production and procurement costs, outsourcing partners have been chosen in low-cost countries (so-called low cost country sourcing). Companies are faced with the problem of designing and coordinating the best possible strategies for global value networks (global supply chains). In this lecture, important theoretical and practical issues in strategic management of global supply chains are addressed.

Students are required to independently prepare theoretical (partially quantitative-analytical) approaches and concepts. Students intensify their knowledge and partially develop theoretical concepts through case studies.

Prerequisites:

This course is designed for students in the Master’s program who do not intend to specialize in Logistics & SCM, but who do want to obtain a good understanding of global manufacturing and global supply chains. Therefore, the course has no specific prerequisites apart from basic analytical and statistical skills.

Course structure:

Week Content

1 I Introduction to Global Supply Chain Strategies

2 II Design of Global Production Networks, Global vs. Local Sourcing

3 III Outsourcing, Offshoring, Contract Manufacturing und Supply Chain Intermediaries

4 Global Supply Chain Simulation

Literature:

[1] A package of reading materials (consisting of chapters from different Textbooks like Cachon/Terwiesch, van Mieghem, Nahmias, etc., and practice-oriented articles) will be made available on WueCampus for every chapter

[2] Multiple Case Studies (Sport Obermeyer, Zara, Li & Fung, Solectron)

Grading:

60-minute final written exam

Contact:

Dr. Richard Pibernik, Professor (richard.pibernik@uni-wuerzburg.de)

Faculty of Business Management and Economics Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods

15/19

Name:

Operations Management – Supply Chain Collaboration

Responsible:

Professor Richard Pibernik, Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods

Program: Type: Term: ECTS:

Master Seminar Winter 10 CP

Time and Venue:

Will be announced on SB@home and on

http://www.wiwi.uni-wuerzburg.de/lehrstuhl/bwl11/teaching/bachelor/seminar_logistics_supply_chain_management/

Contents & Objectives: Supply chain collaboration (SCC) is a joint decision making process for aligning plans of individual supply chain members with the aim of achieving coordination under information asymmetry. It is a well-acknowledged fact that supply chain collaboration yields a significant potential to increase overall supply chain performance. The benefits of collaborative supply chain planning, such as reducing overall supply chain costs and increasing service levels, have been highlighted in many theoretical and empirical studies. Information sharing is a prerequisite for any collaborative planning approach. Individual members of the supply chain dispose of relevant (private) data regarding their own operations (e.g. cost and capacity data, inventory levels, demand forecasts) that need to be exchanged in order to enable joint decision making. To align inventory decisions or synchronize production plans, for example, companies need to share information such as on-hand inventory and cost/capacity data related to manufacturing and warehousing.

The aim of this seminar is to familiarize participants with the main problems that arise in non-collaborative supply chains and discuss various approaches of supply chain collaboration that tackle these issues.

Prerequisites:

Only for Students of “Wirtschaftsinformatik”.

Ideally, students should have attended lectures in Logistics, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management.

Course structure:

Session Content

1 Introductory event: participation in workshop; topic assignment; exchange in groups

2 Scientific Writing seminar: participation in workshop (this requires your additional registration for the “Scientific Writing” seminar)

3 Intermediate workshop: the groups meet and discuss the interdependencies of their topic with other subject areas. Each group prepares a one-page results protocol and sents it to Maya Michels (maya.michels@uni-wuerzburg.de).

4 Final block course: presentation and active participation in discussion of all topics

Literature:

Depending on chosen topic.

Grading:

The final grade is based on the grade for the seminar paper (weight: 2/3) and the grade for the presentation and participation in discussion of all topics (weight: 1/3).

Faculty of Business Management and Economics Chair of Logistics and Quantitative Methods

16/19

Contact:

Dr. Richard Pibernik, Professor (richard.pibernik@uni-wuerzburg.de)

Julian Kurz (julian.kurz1@uni-wuerzburg.de)

Fabian Taigel (fabian.taigel@uni-wuerzburg.de)