Supply Chain Management

The Supply Chain Management elective package provides an integrated framework for understanding the product and information flows in and between companies that are part of global demand/supply chains in a rapid changing world. It shows how changes in the economy lead to changes in industries of local and nations governments (with a focus on the Netherlands), and how they should and can (re)act.

For whom?

This elective package is for students who are interested in intra- and inter- logistical infrastructures and its management in and between (departments of) companies in a wide variety of industries amongst the food, (fine) chemical, transportation, retail, construction, maintenance services, pharmaceutical and metallurgical industry, and that are interested in how they are imbedded in the local, regional and national economy, to be able to build sound policies. 

Expected prior knowledge

The elective package has a strong engineering and management orientation. Interests in mathematics in decision making, mapping and modelling processes, optimizations, basic statistics and out-off the box thinking are desired. 

What will you learn?

The elective package focuses on the understanding of the integration of enterprise functions as strategic and tactical management, forecasting, planning and scheduling, and on the co-operation and alignment between companies in supply chains these enterprises are part of, and its needs for positive policies and facilitating infrastructures. The focus is on the next generation innovations that will make supply chain more effective, efficient, smart and sustainable. Creating awareness by playing and designing serious supply chain games contributes to this understanding. In general the elective package offers insight in a variety of proven management approaches in industries that produce high-quality products that focus in reducing costs and improving services on all relevant levels of an enterprise and their supply chain partners. It also focusses on the multi-actor planning and assessment of possible choices in an economic and societal context. 

Job Specialisation

Graduates from this elective package may become a professional, as analyst, manager and/or consultant in the operational, logistics and supply chain field in a wide variety of industries and their service providers, or become policy advisors in the field of the economy, infrastructure and planning as one can find in the field of planning and realization of business parks, ports and inland terminals for a wide range of modalities. 

Education methods

Written exams and assignments.

Course overview

Note: All courses will be given in English.

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Register for this elective

Please fill in your application in My Study Planning and enroll this elective package in Brightspace. 

Contact details

In case of questions, please contact the coordinator Marcel Ludema.