Tomorrow’s Supply Chain engineers face the challenge of creating the engine that powers the world economy: the global supply chain. This calls for creative, stable, intelligent, communicative and well-structured engineers who can design, link, implement and manage supply chain processes in a cross-organizational, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary setting. This minor prepares you for working as a project manager or consultant in supply chain engineering. The course of study is offered in cooperation with international companies, where students will be doing a project for two days per week.

Combining logistics and supply chain management

You learn about logistic processes; on their own and as an element in the well-orchestrated chain that generates value for the end customers. You combine logistics and supply chain management concepts with methods and techniques from the field of operations research, in translating business models into well aligned processes, focused on serving the end customer. You learn to apply consulting, communicative skills for successful interventions. You are trained to work evidence based in order to create new supply chains or to improve existing ones.

General requirements: two years of engineering studies and good English-language skills.

Classes will be scheduled between 8:30 AM and 18:30 PM, with a maximum of 6 to 8 hours a day.

Two weeks before start of the semester, the schedules are published.

The full semester program includes the project + mandatory subject (15 ECTS) + 3 Electives (3 x 5 ECTS)

Project + Supply Chain Planning + Theme – 15 ECTS credits (mandatory)
During the project you will work in a group of students on challenging consulting assignments, carried out within an industrial, trade or logistics services company. You will integrate all the new Supply Chain and managerial insights the minor is offering you, together with project management, consulting and research skills. you will learn during this module.

Supply chain planning aims to provide ‘the right product, in the right place, at the right time’. Organizations typically have a ‘sales and operations planning (S&OP)’ in place to balance demand and supply at the tactical planning horizon. Departing from the S&OP-concept, students learn how to successfully do so with a focus on forecasting and network design. Next to the planning related knowledge the course provides a deep dive into contemporary supply chain (SC) issues, such as SC Resilience and SC Sustainability (e.g., related to CSRD).

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Smart Logistics (EN) – 5 ECTS credits
Embark on an insightful exploration of smart logistics, where innovation and technology converge to shape the future of logistics. Integrated logistics, supply chains and last-mile logistics are developing swiftly, based on the latest insights in technology like data driven logistics, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and the internet of things.

Join us in the fascinating world of Smart Logistics, where logistics are organized with unprecedented efficiency, using the power of intelligent technology.

As your guide, we are pleased to introduce compelling topics in this module:

- Trends in Last-Mile Delivery
- Trends in Warehouse Automation
- Data-Driven Logistics
- Machine Learning with Matlab
- Dashboards with PowerBI
- Simulation with Flexsim

Lean/QRM (EN) – 5 ECTS credits
Many organizations run numerous improvement projects. These ambitious projects tend to tie up people for considerable amounts of time, on top of their normal tasks.

Each individual project assesses a current problem within the organization as a whole. The question is, is there also improvement in the bottom-line performance of the organization after completing a project? If there is no process to address the constraint in the organization, there is also no focus which areas should be addressed. In this course you will learn to set up a process to address the restrictions within the organization and increase the performance of an organization as a whole.

Advanced Planning & Scheduling (EN) – 5 ECTS credits
Planning and scheduling are forms of decision-making that play an important role in most manufacturing and service industries. The planning and scheduling functions in a company typically use analytical techniques and heuristic methods to allocate its limited resources to the activities that have to be done. During this module, you will cover the following topics:

• MPC systems, S&OP, manufacturing and dispatching rules
• Characteristics of service industries, Project and CPM
• Scheduling: programming, shifting bottleneck procedures, annealing, Tabu search and Beam search
• Interval scheduling, reservation systems and timetabling
• Economic Lot Scheduling
• Personnel scheduling problems

 Consultancy Skills (EN) – 5 ECTS credits
The module Consultancy skills helps you to develop effective consultancy and communication skills. We challenge you to examine the assumptions and interpretations you have about yourself and others. This will help you to examine the way you communicate, in order to become more effective in getting your message across as a professional consultant.

Circularity in Supply Chains (EN) – 5 ECTS credits
Students learn to assess circular opportunities within business models and supply chains of companies and advise on strategies to increase circularity based on a redesign of supply chain processes. This is achieved by working on a real-life case and by playing an online management game in which students steer an e-bike manufacturer aiming to pursue circular business opportunities. Lectures provide the required theoretical underpinnings.

Advanced simulation (EN) – 5 ECTS credits
During the Simulation module, you will learn how to use simulation study for production process improvement and management of production processes.

After this course, you will be able to recognize when simulation can be used as a tool for decision-making, especially in a manufacturing environment.

You will also be able to use the software Siemens Plant Simulation, make simple calculations as a means of validating a simulation study and to interpret and analyze the results from a simulation study.

Innovatie Management (NL) – 5 ECTS credits
Als technisch bedrijfskundige of logistiek engineer krijg je in je beroepspraktijk te maken met innovaties en innoveren. Om leiding te geven aan bijvoorbeeld procesverbeteringen of productvernieuwingen, is het noodzakelijk kennis te hebben van de factoren die van belang zijn bij innovatieprocessen. Je leert begrippen en concepten van innovatiemanagement en je krijgt inzicht in hoe de factoren bij innovatieprocessen samenhangen. Je kunt verschillende theorieën en/of perspectieven uit innovatiemanagement toepassen en vertalen naar een praktijksituatie.

Management Control Systems (NL) – 5 ECTS credits
This course is intended for students who will make business decisions, evaluate organizational performance, or evaluate others (and/or be evaluated) through the use of mainly nonfinancial information. In other words, the course is designed to be useful particularly for those who aspire to be managers or management consultants.

Leiderschap (NL) – 5 ECTS credits
Dit vak gaat over leiderschap; hoe geef je effectief leiding aan jezelf en anderen. En dat is een ontdekkingsreis. Een tocht waarbij wij gebruik maken van onder andere de 7 habits van Stephan Covey en literatuur over coachend leiderschap. Ook nodigen we je uit om zelf materiaal aan te leveren. Gedurende de lessen werken we zoveel mogelijk met casuïstiek die de student zelf inbrengt.

Contact

For questions about the programme:
Mr Hendryk Dittfeld
h.dittfeld@windesheim.nl/Phone: +31884699198