MSc in Logistics

Molde University College

Second semester info-meeting October 26th 2016

Program coordinator: Arnt Buvik

Office A-249

E-mail: arnt.buvik@himolde.no

Phone: 71 21 42 35

Remaining part of MSc-program

• Spring 2017: Mandatory courses according to

specialization/subvariant and some elective

courses.

• Fall 2017: Ten seminars with different topics,

including Research Design + Proposal

Presentation

• Spring 2018: Master Thesis. Delivery in the

end of May, and oral presentation in June.

MSc in Logistics

Molde University College

• MSc in Logistics web page:

http://kursinfo.himolde.no/lo-kurs/MSc_logistics/index.htm

• Study plan:

https://studiehandbok.himolde.no/en/studieprogram/357

Spring 2017

• Lectures start in week 2, i.e. January 9-13th

• Detailed lecture plan will be published in December

• Sign up for courses before February 1st (start mid December)

• However, SCM-students must choose subvariant before

November 15th. Link to Questback survey:

https://web2.questback.com/Quests/QuestDesigner/PreviewPage.aspx?Que

stID=4879445&sid=sGozqJ6SsP&PPK=krsphf4umh

Retake exams

• Retake exams will be arranged the following semester if

requested by students

– First week of June for Fall courses

– First full week of January for Spring courses

• To request a retake exam, you must either have

– Attempted, but failed, the most recent exam in the course

– Missed the most recent exam for medical reasons

• If a retake exam is arranged, any student who already has

a grade in the course may attend

• Registration for retake exams will be announced (Due

date February 15th)

Operation Management

Cancelled

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management

Cancelled

Courses this Spring

• IBE700 Enterprise Resource Planning with SAP (Bjørn Jæger)

• IDA710 Business Processes and Information Modelling (Steinar Kristoffersen)

• IDA715 Discrete Event Simulation (Ketil Danielsen)

• JUR710 Contract Law (Georg Panzer)

• LOG715 Business Cases in SCM (Berit Irene Helgheim)

• LOG733 Exact Optimization Methods in Logistics (Lars Magnus Hvattum)

• LOG740 Advanced Petroleum Logistics (Yuri Shcherbanin / B.Aas / I.Gribkovskaia)

• LOG765 Project Planning and Control (Steinar Kristoffersen)

• LOG820 Vehicle Routing with Heuristics (Yauheni Kisialiou / I.Gribkovskaia)

• SCM703 Applied Supply Chain Management (Asmund Olstad)

• SCM705 Cost Management in Supply Chain (Trond Hammervoll)

• TRA700 Transportation Infrastructure Assessment (Johan Holmgren)

• TRA705 Urban Freight Logistics (Edoardo Marcucci)

• TRA816 Maritime Transportation (TBA)

• TRA820 Air Transport Economics (Svein Bråthen)

Subvariants SCM

• Advanced Supply Chain Management

• Transportation in Supply Chain Management

• Information Systems in Supply Chain

Management

Advanced Supply Chain Management2016

Variant: Advanced Supply Chain

ManagementTraditional supply chain execution systems is becoming

increasingly more difficult:

• Mix of global operating systems,

• Pricing pressures

• Increasing customer expectations

External impacts:

• Rising fuel costs

• Global recession

• Supplier bases that have moved off-shore

• Political issues

• Environmental issues

Advanced

Supply

Chain

Management

Variant: Advanced Supply

Chain ManagementRecruited into manager/director positions. On of the most important positions in a company.

• Tie operation plan together with strategic business plan

• Providing a holistic view of demand, supply, and finance

• Coordination of operations activities trough the whole SC

• Working in a global environment

Responsible for encompass all activities associated with the movement and transformation of goods

Variant: Advanced Supply Chain

Management• Three mandatory courses:

– SCM703 Applied Supply Chain Management

– LOG715 Business cases in SCM

– SCM705 Cost Management in SC

• Elective courses, you may choose from all other subversion as well as the OM, for example:

– IBE700 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with SAP

– IDA715 Discrete Event Simulation

– TRA700 Transportation Infrastructure Assessment

– TRA705 Urban Freight Logistics

Variant: Advanced Supply Chain

Management• SCM703 Applied Supply Chain Management

Methods and techniques used for modeling and solving logistic problems that occurs in practice.

Know how to use (commercial) optimization software tools like LINGO for solving the same problems

• Modeling logistic problems

• Lot-sizing in production

• Integrated models for planning, distribution and purchasing

• Integrated models for marketing and logistics- Demand Based Management and Revenue Management

Variant: Advanced Supply Chain

SCM 705 Cost Management

Cost Management are one of the core subjects for both public organizations and private companies. In the growing global competition; cost management has become even more important.

This course addresses methods or concepts allowing analysis and control of all costs within a supply chain, by using exiting approaches to cost management.

Variant: Advanced Supply Chain

LOG715 Business cases in SCM

Applied course where the objective is to learn and practice how to solve practical problems.

The course is based on Harvard University’s Case solving model.

• 3 companies will present business cases to solve

• All company presentations, seminars and question sessions are mandatory

• 3 written assignments @15p per student to be submitted

Variant: Advanced Supply Chain

Management

SCM Globe,

2016

Sub-variant: Transportation

in Supply Chain Management

• The focus is on the Transportation part of supply chains

– Transport costs are not among the biggest cost components in a supply

chain, but transport is a very important driver for supply chain design and

dynamics (like off-shoring, supplier selection and reaching markets for

finished products and services)

– Globalization of production and consumption patterns and the strong

growth in world trade has made transport activities grow very fast over the

last decades

– Understanding and managing transport is essential to efficient SCM

• Transport is a big industry in itself, with a lot of research

challenges.

• Three courses (+ one elective):– LOG715 Business cases in SCM (shared with other variants)

– TRA816 Maritime Transportation

– TRA820 Air Transport Economics

Transportation

in Supply Chain Management

LOG715 Business cases in SCM (common with

other variants)

• A course with lectures/seminars tailored to each case

• 3 companies will present business cases for you to solve

• All company presentations, seminars and question

sessions are mandatory to attend

3 written assignments @15pages per student to be submitted,

but no ordinary exam

Transportation

in Supply Chain Management

TRA816 Maritime Transportation

• 90% of the world’s transport work is maritime

• Most merchandise in the shopping malls/urban centres has been on a maritime transport leg

• How is this organized? Which are the major world trade patterns?

• How do shipping companies interact in a supply chain setting?

• How do ships and ports interact?

• How is the environmental profile in maritime transport?

Assignment + written exam

Maritime research: Example

Transportation

in Supply Chain Management

TRA820 Air Transport Economics

• Air transport is the fastest growing mode of

transport, including air freight

• Essential to many supply chains and very dynamic in

nature

• Focus on the supply and demand in the industry,

including freight

• Financial performance of airlines and airports

• Management of airlines and airports

Assignment + written exam

Research in aviation: Example

Transportation

in Supply Chain Management

TRA700 Transportation Infrastructure Assessment

(elective)

• Selecting the most efficient investments in transport infrastructure

is a key challenge for most governments

• How should one prioritise between alternative investments when

budgets are limited

• How should one take account of time costs, health impacts and

environmental impacts in such an analysis

• Core: The application of Cost Benefit Analysis to transportation

projects. relevant for working in e.g. consultancies

Assignment + written exam

Research in Transport Infrastructure

Assessment: Example

Transportation

in Supply Chain Management

TRA705 Urban Freight Logistics (elective)

• Managing urban freight is a key challenge in

congested cities

• Many experiments and innovative solutions have

been put forward and some of them are tested

• Taking account of the needs of urban freight actors in city

planning is a key challenge

• Another essential challenge is enhancing the utilization of

vehicles – e.g. by means of cross-docking terminals, ”public

transport” solutions for freight

Assignment + written exam

Research in Urban Freight Logistics:

Example

Transportation

Research Group:

• Works with academic and contract research in all

the areas presented above +

– Modelling of transport flows

– Purchasing of public transport services (ferries,

aviation, urban public transit)

– Environmental studies

• Consists of the academic staff + researchers from

the Research Centre (Møreforsking Molde AS)

SCM Subvariant:

Information Systems

in Supply Chain Management

The focus is on how to use Information Systems in Supply

Chain Management by the three courses:

• IDA715 Discrete Event Simulations• By Assoc. professor Ketil Danielsen

• IDA710 Business Processes and Information Modelling• By Assoc. professor Steinar Kristoffersen

• IBE700 ERP systems with SAP• By Assoc. professor Bjørn Jæger

IDA715 Discrete Event Simulation

• Predict behavior by simulating

– Randomization is essential to generate realistic timing

• Computer programming

– Variables, flow control (process definition), computation

• Statistical analysis (based on Log708)

– of collected data (input) and results (output)

– hypothesis testing (is system A better than B?)

• Some cases from logistics– Lots of mandatory programming exercises from the text book

IDA710 Business Processes and

Information Modelling

• Supporting a career in strategic management,

asset control and entrepreneurship

• ”As is” analyses and organizational change

• Process modelling and technological innovation

• Information architectures, data collection and

business intelligence

– Simulation

– Applications

– Governance

IBE700 ERP Systems with SAP

• The primary objective is to give you practical hands-on

experience in using enterprise systems in a realistic

business environment

– You operate a company by executing the following business

processes using SAP:

• Procurement

• Sales

• Production and

• Project Management

• The secondary objectives are

– Execution of B2B transactions in a in a global supply chain to study

the end-to-end information flow

– Making strategic decisions in selling & buying ERP-systems

You use the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system

– the World’s largest enterprise software company63% of all inter-company transactions in the world are handled by an SAP system at minimum one

side of the transaction

http://www.sapintegratedreport.com/2012/fileadmin/user_upload/2012_SAPintegratedreport/downloadcenter/13_03_27/SAP_AR2012_en.pdf