Supply Chain Design 9 Credits

Course Contents

The course covers the design and management of supply chains and their impact on a company's performance and organization.

The course includes the following topics:
- What is a supply chain and how it can be understood
- How to get a supply chain to support and contribute to achieving the decided production and business strategy
- What driving forces are there in a supply chain and how can performance be evaluated and measured
- How to design a supply network
- How do globalization affect the design of supply networks
- IT and Supply Chains
- Coordination of supply chains
- Sustainability, economically, socially and environmentally, in supply chains

Prerequisites

Passed courses 180 credits in first cycle, at least 90 credits within the major subject Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management or Civil Engineering, and 21 credits Mathematics, and completed course Industrial Product Realization, Process-Methods-Leadership, 9 credits and English Language requirements corresponding to English 6 or English B in the Swedish upper secondary school

Level of Education: Master A1F
Course code/Ladok code: TUFS27
The course is conducted at: School of Engineering Last modified 2017-05-08 14:59:26