Duration
7h Th, 60h AUTR
Number of credits
| OpenBordersMBA | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course provides an overview of the main models and tools used to optimize a company's or organization's logistics processes, enabling them to be managed in the short, medium and long term with a view to creating sustainable value for its stakeholders and sustainability for its external environment.
It is structured around 3 components
° Optimization of the logistics value chain: key principles and challenges (Prof. D. Van Caillie), with particular emphasis on the need for innovative practices and their dependence on the digitalization of the business.
° Retail and Marketing (Prof. W. Standaert)
° Sustainability (Prof. C. Paquay)
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The Intended Learning Outcomes addressed by the course are :
- Strengthening knowledge and understanding of basic management disciplines in order to use them to perform a rigorous analysis of a management situation and provide pertinent solutions, including the appraisal of information flows.
- Gaining the knowledge and understanding of the following fields: management control systems, business information systems and risk managementapplied to logistical processes and being able to mobilize them in order to solve concrete management problems or cases.
- Capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem linked to information flows and their impact on performance, to perform a rigorous analysis of it and to suggest pertinent solutions
- Understanding and being capable of using modelization methods in the fields of business information modelling, performance management and risk management when seeking a solution for a concrete management problem
- Providing concrete solutions to a management problem, integrating a dimension of technology & innovation
- Being capable of professional team work
- Developing leadership through the group work
- Developing a critical sense (arguing)
- Developing a transversal, global vision
- Creative conception of solutions
- Professional capacity for oral and written communication
- Faced with a management problem, suggesting solutions that are ethical and socially responsible and that respect the principles of good governance
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course is taught in English on a completely remote basis.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Throughout the 3 modules of the course, students will individually discover, through podcasts, book chapters and scientific articles, the concepts and tools that will enable them to carry out the following 3 successive stages
- Identify the basic principles of the topics covered in the course: modelling how an organisation works, then modelling the value chain.
- Identify the main logistics processes of an organisation, including their interrelationships with those of its main customers, suppliers and control bodies, and model their operational functioning using the Double Bell Model.
- Modelling the main physical and information flows associated with these logistical processes and their contribution to value creation, as well as the risks associated with them, in relation to real 'problem areas' for the managers of this organisation (agility, responsiveness, customer proximity in particular).
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Remote course
Further information:
Remote course exclusively
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- LOL@
- Microsoft Teams
Further information:
See https://obmba.hec.uliege.be/course/view.php?id=51
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Practical details regarding the organization of the exam will be communicated to students according to the Covid context of the moment
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
All necessary supports are available on the Lola platform
Contacts
Teachers :
Prof. D. Van Caillie, d.vancaillie@uliege.be
Prof. W. Standaert, willem.standaert@uliege.be
Prof. C. Paquay, c.paquay@uliege.be