MSc in Logistics Molde University...

MSc in LogisticsMolde University College

Second semester info-meeting November 4th 2015

Program coordinator: Arnt BuvikOffice A-249

E-mail: [email protected]: 71 21 42 35

Remaining part of MSc-program• Spring 2016: Mandatory courses according to

specialization/subvariant and some elective courses.

• Fall 2016: Ten seminars with different topics, including Research Design (MSc Logistics)Proposal Presentation

• Spring 2017: Master Thesis. Delivery in the end of May, and oral presentation in June.

MSc in LogisticsMolde University College

• MSc in Logistics web page: http://kursinfo.himolde.no/lo-kurs/MSc_logistics/index.htm

• Study plan: http://himolde.studiehandbok.no/eng/content/view/full/14300

Spring 2016• Lectures start in week 2, i.e. January 11-15th

• 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.

Send e-mail to [email protected]

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

Supply Chain Management

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)• IDA725 Project Management (Steinar Kristoffersen)• LOG715 Business Cases in SCM (Berit Helgheim) • LOG733 Exact Optimization Methods in Logistics (Lars Magnus Hvattum) • LOG820 Vehicle Routing with Heuristics (Irina Gribkovskaia)• SCM705 Cost Management in Supply Chain (Trond Hammervoll)• JUR710 Contract Law (Georg Panzer)• TRA700 Transportation Infrastructure Assessment (Svein Bråthen)• TRA705 Urban Freight Logistics (Johan Holmgren)• TRA816 Maritime Transport (??)• TRA820 Air Transport Economics (Svein Bråthen)

Subvariants SCM

• Advanced Supply Chain Management

• Transportation in Supply Chain Management

• Information Systems in Supply Chain Management

Variant: Advanced Supply Chain Management

Recruited 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


• Three mandatory courses:– JUR710 Contract Law – 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


JUR 710 Contract LawImportant in international B2B to have basic understanding and skills regarding law and international regulations.

• Key contractual terms• Fundamental principles of International Commerce Law,

especially Service Level Agreements• Basic negotiation skills with regard to complex

commercial contracts and understandings of dispute resolution

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 SCMApplied 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

Sub-variant: Transportationin 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

• Three courses (+ one elective):– LOG715 Business cases in SCM (shared with other variants)– TRA816 Maritime Transportation– TRA820 Air Transport Economics

Transportationin Supply Chain Management

LOG715 Business cases in SCM (conmmon 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


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?

Assignment + written exam


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


Transportationin Supply Chain ManagementTRA700 Transportation Infrastructure Assessment (elective)

• Selecting the most efficient investments in transport infrastructureis a key challenge for most governments

• How should one prioritise between alternative investments whenbudgets 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 transportationprojects. relevant for working in e.g. consultancies



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, ”publictransport” solutions for freight


SCM Subvariant:Information Systems

in Supply Chain ManagementThe 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

• A practical hands-on course in using enterprise systems in

a realistic business environment

• You operate a company by executing the following

business processes using SAP:– Procurement– Fulfillment– Production and – Project Management– Execution both within a company and across companies in an

international supply chain.

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

IBE700 – Enterprise Resource Planning with SAP

• Restricted access per session (25 students)• Two sessions if necessary:

– Wednesdays 09:15 – 12:00 and 14:15 – 17:00• Sign up to [email protected] by November 15th

if you want to take the course and state which session you want.

• If choices are uneven, a lottery might be taken to make even groups.

MSc in Logistics Molde University...

Documents

Transcript of MSc in Logistics Molde University...