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Course Catalog 2011-2012
MOL-9606 Managing Global Supply Chains, 5 cr |
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies
Person responsible
Heikki Mattila
Lessons
| Study type | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | Summer | Implementations | Lecture times and places |
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Requirements
Approved research paper, case exercise and approved exam. Each student is expected to write a research paper and give an oral presentation at the course seminar. The paper will be personally commented on by the lecturer. A practical sourcing case exercise will be carried out individually by each student. Cases are e-mailed to the lecturer, who will comment on them and approve them. Evaluation for the grade will be based 60% on exam, 30% on research paper and 10% on case exercise.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation
Learning outcomes
Once the course has been successfully completed, the student will be able to: Define various drivers for globalization. Classify various sourcing strategies and purchasing methods. Recognize critical success factors in consumer goods supply chain. Apply various success measures for analyzing global value chains. Specify how global value chains can improve their financial performance. Name the main public sector organizations and their roles in global value chains.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Sourcing and purchasing strategies. Critical success factors and success measures. Purchase planning by using sourcing matrix. The importance of lead time. Supply chain modeling. Category management. Purchasing and sourcing methods in outsourcing. Purchase contracts. | Terms of purchasing, payment and delivery. Cost build-up and pricing. Quality assurance and delivery control. | Purchase planning by using sourcing matrix. Roles and strategies of industrialized countries and developing countries in global supply chains. |
Evaluation criteria for the course
Evaluation for the grade will be based 60% on exam, 30% on research paper and 10% on case exercise.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course
Partial passing:
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Edition, availability, ... | Examination material | Language |
| Book | Going Global | Kunz, G. Garner, M. | 1-56367-368-1 | English | |||
| Book | Purchasing and Supply Chain Management | Wheele, A. | English | ||||
| Lecture slides | Mattila, H. | English | |||||
| Other online content | Research papers by students | English | |||||
| Summary of lectures | Fashion logistics | Mattila H | English | ||||
| Summary of lectures | Sourcing and purchase management | Mattila H | English | ||||
| Online book | Inserting local industries into global value chains and global production networks | UNIDO | English |
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
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More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| The course focuses on management of global supply chains by discussing who varoious players operate in international supply chains and how the private and public sector is involved in controlling the operations. | Lectures Excercises |
Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 % |