Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
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
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
Students work on the case in groups.
During a first phase, students are coached by the lecturers for the realization of their group project.
Then, 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. The lecturers continue to answer questions during this second phase of the study.
Moreover, a company visit may be organized in collaboration with other professors.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further 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.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- LOL@
Further information:
All the necessary documents can be found on the virtual campus LOla.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Out-of-session test(s)
Further 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 project.
Each student has an opportunity to evaluate the contribution of his/her teammates to the group work during the semester by filling a peer evaluation. Taking these peer evaluations into account as well as the presence and participation in class along the year, lecturers may decide, by a justifiable opinion, to give different grades to students of a same team. Motivation must take into account criteria such as quality of work different from other team members, and a greater or lesser involvement in the mission.
Due to the participative nature of the course, attending each one of the 10 course sessions is mandatory. Students with more than two unjustified absences are not allowed to sit the exam, either in the first or second session.
The group project is a practical learning activity and is not subject to a second session evaluation. Thus, the course grade obtained in the first session is automatically carried over to the second session.
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.
Students may be asked to make a financial contribution to cover the cost of visits. This contribution will not exceed €20.
Contacts
Lecturers:
Yasemin ARDA (yasemin.arda@uliege.be)
Véronique FRANCOIS (veronique.francois@uliege.be)
Association of one or more MOOCs
Items online
Campus LOl@
LOl@