Procurement and Production Logistics
- Faculty
Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences
- Version
Version 1 of 15.02.2024.
- Module identifier
22B0818
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
English
- ECTS credit points and grading
5.0
- Module frequency
winter- and summerterm
- Duration
1 semester
- Brief description
This module shall provide general knowledge on how to service a production facility, e.g. how to supply it with all the goods needed starting with the procurement of those from external partners.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
1 General Aspects 1.1 Basics 1.2 Planning 1.3 Industry 4.0 and Communication Systems 2 Procurement Logistics 2.1 Role of Purchasing Logistics 2.2 Total Cost Analysis - Impact on Strategies and Structures 2.3 Strategic / Global Sourcing - Sourcing Process / Supply Risks 3 Production Logistics 3.1 Strategy Level: LEAN, XPS and TPS 3.2 Structural Level: Control Concepts (PUSH, PULL) 3.3 System Level Material Supply Systems and Maintenance
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Hours of workload Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 60 Lecture Presence - Lecturer independent learning Hours of workload Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 90 Preparation/follow-up for course work -
- Graded examination
- Written examination or
- Portfolio exam or
- Homework / Assignment
- Remark on the assessment methods
The portfolio exam covers 100 points and consists of one presentation (PR) and a one-hour written examination (K1). The presentation and the examination are weighted by 50 points each.
- Exam duration and scope
Written examination: in accordance with the valid study regulations
Written paper: approx. 10-15 pages
Portfolio exam:
- Written exam: in accordance with the valid study regulations
- Presentation: approx. 15 minutes
The requirements are specified in the respective lectures.
- Recommended prior knowledge
basics of logistics, motivation for production supply
- Knowledge Broadening
Students who successfully complete this module
- get to know to the system elements of modern procurement and production logistics concepts and their interrelations.
- learn about the pros and the cons of the procurement and production logistics concepts in order to be able to select them suitably for a given scenario.
- critically evaluate the procurement and production logistics concepts in respect to their effect on efficiency and sustainability.
- test simple tools to support the procurement and production logistics concepts.
- Literature
- Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Quayle 2006 - Fundamentals of Production Logistics, Nyhuis / Wiendahl 2008 - A Dynamic Bottleneck-oriented Manufacturing Control System, Huaxin Liu, GITO mbH Verlag, 2011 - Procurement 20/20: Supply Entrepreneurship in a Changing World, Spiller, Peter, McKinsey & Co; 2014 - A Short Guide to Procurement Risk, Russill, Richard, Gower Publishing Limited; 2010 - Project Procurement Management: Contracting, Subcontracting, Teaming, Fleming, Quentin, Fmc Pr; 2003
- Linkage to other modules
This module is related to the other modules from the study specialization Procurement and Production Management.
- Applicability in study programs
- International Business and Management
- International Business and Management, B.A.
- International Management
- International Management, B.A.
- Business Administration and Management
- Business Administration and Management, B.A.
- Person responsible for the module
- Freye, Diethardt
- Teachers
- Freye, Diethardt