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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Supply chain management

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 152-0457/01
Abbreviation RDR
Course title Supply chain management
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Business Administration and Law
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Pavla Macurová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Internal and external supply chains, supply chains structure, interfaces i n logistics. Goals, basic tasks and organization support of supply chain management.
2. Contradictions, risks and bullwhip effects in supply chains.
3. Directions of solving problems in supply chains: internal and external integration, resilience increasing, rationality.
4. Comparison of lean concept, agile SCM concept and Efficient Customer Response concept.
5. Demand forecasting - principles and techniques for demand forecasting.
6. Approaches to safety stock setting.
7. Trends in warehousing and warehouse management.
8. Trends in distribution logistics.
9. Reverse logistics organization.
10. Methodology of supply chain mapping, measurement, analysis and improvement.
11. Speciality of supply chain risk management.
12. Implementation of Industry 4.0 elements in supply chains I.
13. Implementation of Industry 4.0 elements in supply chains II.

E-learning

Literature

BOWERSOX, Donald. Supply Chain Logistics Management. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2019. ISBN 978-0078096648 .
LUKOSZOVÁ, Xenie a STOPKA, Ondrej. Logistická centra na globálním trhu. Jesenice: Ekopress, 2019. ISBN 978-80-87865-51-4.
STANTON, Daniel. Supply Chain Management For Dummies. New Jersey: John Wiley&Sons, 2020. ISBN 978-1-119-67701-7 .

Advised literature

BELVEDERE, Valeria a Alberto GRANDO. Sustainable operations and supply chain management. Chichester: Wiley, 2017. Wiley series in operations research and management science. ISBN 978-1-119-28495-6 .
John MANGAN, Chandra LALWANI and Augustina CALATAYUD. Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management. 4th edition. New Jersey: Wiley&Sons, 2020. ISBN 978-1119702993 .
Udo BUSCHER, Rainer LASCH and Jorn SCHONBERGER. Logistics Management. Cham: Springer, 2021. ISBN 978-3-030-85842-1 .