Advances Issues in Supply Chain Management

• ECTS credits: 7, 5
• Responsible Faculty: Faculty of Technology and Maritime Sciences
• Semester: Spring
• Teaching Language: English
• Participants: For students who are pursuing their third year specialization or master studies in the fields of economics, supply chain, logistics management, business or organizational studies.
• Prerequisite knowledge: Completion of second year bachelor education in business or related fields. 
• Contact: Ms. Stine Bergman Olsson, email: stine.olsson@hive.no

Learning outcomes / Aim and objectives
After completion of this course the student shall be able to:
•    Comprehend and apply supply chain management (SCM) and organizational theories.
•    Analyse and apply economic theories in diverse intra- and inter-organizational settings.
•    Applying economic concepts such as such as cost-effectiveness, efficiency and agility in diverse supply chains.
•    Make cost efficient management decisions by integrating economic concepts with diverse supply chain dimensions in a number of diverse manufacturing/service industries.

Content / Outline Syllabus
Theoretical Aspects
•    Principle-Agent Theory
•    Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
•    Relational Exchange Theory

Supply Chain and Maritime
•    Theoretical perspectives of Supply chain management (SCM)
•    Supply chain and SCM strategies

Management
•    Management at intra and inter-organizations levels
•    Buyer-supplier selection procedures

Guest Lectures
•    Real life examples presented by Guest lecturers. The lecturers will identify, described the SCM challenges in different industries.

Learning activities / Work Methods / Teaching
Combination of lectures and casework.

Assessment /Method(s)
Written, individual examination (4 hours) in combination with group based project assignment. Weighting between the two methods is examination (60%) and group assignment (40%). Examination support material: Approved Calculator.

Compulsory Work / Exercises
A group (2 students per group) would submit a written report for the assigned case study. To broaden the evaluation part, each group will also present (via power point presentation) their work for oral/cross-examination.