ERP Solutions for Supply Chains

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Yasemin Arda, Véronique François

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course aims at linking theoretical knowledge that students acquired during their studies with practical aspects of international logistics. The case of a European manufacturer selling an end-product to a non-EU country is treated. Students are wanted to determine purchasing, production, and transportation plans of the company with the aim of satisfying the forecasted demand for the next three years. While establishing these plans, students face a wide range of practical decision-making problems, in which they are wanted to minimize the operational costs of the supply chain. They determine the selling price of the end-product taking into account purchasing, production, and transportation costs. The decisions and computations that students have to make during the course of the project would typically feed a company's ERP system.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

In relation with the Assurance of Learning process of HEC Liège, the learning objectives adressed in this course are:

• Strategy: This course will help students to establish a strategy in order to optimize the value chain of a company, an organization or a project.
• Strategy: This course will help students to understand the scientific and technological context of the situation they are confronted with.
• Strategy: This course will allow students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes distinctive to a specialist's action in their field.
• Strategy: This course will help students to demonstrate scientific precision and a critical mind.
• Implementation: This course will help students in taking charge of the everyday management of a company, an organization or a project
• Implementation: This course will train students to take into account the scientific, technological and entrepreneurial dimensions of the situation they are confronted with.
• Implementation: This course will train students to ensure an efficient interaction between the technological and managerial aspects of their projects.
• Implementation: This course will exercise students in the ability to take advantage of data digitalization.
• Implementation: This course will exercise students to work efficiently in an international and multidisciplinary team, among others in a leading position.
• Quality and Performance Control: This course will help students to plan and implement the performance and quality control in a company, an organization or a project.
• Quality and Performance Control: This course will develop students' ability to use the appropriate analytical tools when analysing a complex management situation.
• Communication: This course will help students to communicate efficiently, internally and externally, about a company, organization or project.
• Communication: This course will allow students to improve their proficiency in one foreign language.
• Adaptability: This course will encourage students to be curious and to show a scientific precision of academic level.

• Linking acquired theoretical knowledge with practical aspects of international logistics.
• Understanding the difficulties of managing manufacturing and distribution operations in companies.
• Familiarizing with the available sources of logistics pertinent information in the context of international logistics.
• Training the ability to think reflectively.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Basic concepts of supply chain management, supply chain network design, production planning, inventory control, and transportation management

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is organized as a series of computer lab sessions, during which students work on the case in groups.

During the first seven sessions, students are coached by the lecturers for the realization of their group project.

For the last three sessions, each group receives the work of two other groups and is asked to provide a short feedback on those two other projects, as well as to reflect upon their own project.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

Face-to-face: Since students work on the project in groups during the sessions, under the guidance of the lecturers, students are obligated to participate in all the sessions (10 × 3 hours). They have access to computers and tools that they need to realize their projects (Excel, Internet) during all the sessions.

Recommended or required readings

All the necessary documents can be found on the virtual campus Lol@.

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

oral exam

Written work / report

Continuous assessment

Out-of-session test(s)


Additional information:

Students are evaluated based on their written productions and an oral presentation. The written productions include (for each group) :

• A written report and the associated Excel file covering the outcomes of each step of the group project.
• Two feedback reports (one for each examined project).
• A reflective evaluation of their own work project.

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

The course is given during the first semester.
The course is given in English.

Contacts

Lecturers:

Yasemin ARDA (yasemin.arda@uliege.be)

Véronique FRANCOIS (veronique.francois@uliege.be)

Association of one or more MOOCs

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