Chair of Marketing and Retail Management

Supply Chain Management

Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Waldemar Toporowski

Contact person:
Max Alexander Pisek, M.Sc.
Course language:
German
Target group:
BWL BSc 4-6
Recommended previous knowledge:
Module B.WIWI-BWL.0005 “Marketing”
Lecture:

  • The lecture is planned to be in presence: every Thursday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m., room: ZHG 105
  • Slides, literature, exercises and recordings of the lecture from a previous semester are available for download in StudIP.
  • The exam preparation including the delimitation of the contents will happen in the last lecture

Attention:
The lecture will not take place on May 25th 2023. For this purpose it will be brought forward to Tuesday, May 16th 2023, 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. in room ZHG 006.

    Exercise:
  • The exercise is planned to be hold in presence: every Tuesday 4:15 until 5:45 p.m., room: ZHG 006
  • The sheets will be available to download in StudIP
  • Start of exercise: 23.05.2023

Examination:
Exam (90 Minuten), 6 Credits

Date of written exam:

  • First: Thursday, 20.07.2023, 2:15 – 3:45 p.m., room: ZHG 009
  • Second : Thursday, 12.10.2023, 2:15 – 3:45 Uhr, room: ZHG 011
    Registration in FlexNow: 21.07.2023 - 05.10.2023, cancellation until 11.10.2023

Learning outcome, core skills:
After successful completion of the course students are able to apply, assess and, if necessary, adjust instruments, which are used to coordinate distribution tasks of companies in the industrial and retail sector. These include, in particular, the joint forecast of demand as well as the coordination of orders and inventories.
Content:

  • 1. Conceptual basis of supply chain management
  • 2. Analytical framework for the supply chain design
  • 3. Supply chain coordination
  • 4. Facility location planning
  • 5. Demand forecasting
  • 6. Planning inventories
  • 7. Technological requirements

Recommended references for the lecture:

  • Chopra, S./Meindl, P.: Supply Chain Management, 3. Aufl., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007. Standort: Oec, Signatur: 16 : T 1420 Cho
  • Coughlan, A./Anderson, E./Stern, L./El-Ansary, A.: Marketing Channels, 7. Aufl., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2006. Standort: Oec, Signatur: 16 : U 2200 Mar
  • Seifert, D.: Efficient Consumer Response, 4. Aufl., München 2006. Standort: Oec, Signatur: 16 : U 2500 Sei; Sub (FMAG), Signatur: 2006 A 21254
  • Tempelmeier, H.: Material-Logistik: Modelle und Algorithmen für die Produktionsplanung und -steuerung und das Supply Chain Management, 5. Aufl., Berlin 2003. Standort: Oec, Signatur: 16 : X 1120 Tem; Sub (FMAG), Signatur: 2003 A 71
  • Thonemann, U.: Operations Management, München 2005. Standort: Oec, Sigantur: 16 : V 4000 Tho
  • Toporowski, W.: Logistik im Handel: Optimale Lagerstruktur und Bestellpolitik einer Filialunternehmung, Heidelberg, 1996. Standort: Oec, Signatur: Semesterapparat Toporowski 16 : X 2440 Top

General information:

  • The slides of the lectures can be found in StudIP.
  • Current information can be found on the homepage under News.
  • Information about the lecture can be found at eCampus.