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Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains, 7.5 Credits

Resilienta och hållbara försörjningskedjor, 7,5 Högskolepoäng

Established: 2025-02-27

Established by: Department of Engineering Science

Applies from: V26

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

Knowledge and understanding

• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies, principles, and concepts to achieve resilient organizations and value chains.
• demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of relevant theories and frameworks for resilient management.

Competence and skills

• ability to critically and systematically use knowledge to analyze different management philosophies
• assess and manage complex phenomena and issues to create resilient value chains and organizations.

Judgement and approach

• demonstrate the ability to make assessments considering relevant scientific and societal challenges to create resilient value chains and organizations.
• demonstrate the ability to identify the need for further knowledge within resilient organizations and value chains and take responsibility for their knowledge development.

Entry requirements

General entry requirements and approved result from the following course/courses:
SCM700-Supply Chain Management - Sourcing and Distribution or the equivalent.

The forms of assessment of student performance

Individual written exam. Groupwise written assignment. Groupwise oral presentation.

Course contents

This course provides knowledge and insight into how organizations should operate and act outside their own companies and how their leaders should strive to create agile, dynamic companies that are resilient, meaning they have the ability to adapt to unforeseen events.

To achieve resilience, it is important to be dynamic downstream toward customers and upstream toward suppliers. It is therefore crucial to have control over the entire value chain, from raw material supplier to end customer. Additionally, the course will discuss why processes and value chains must be robust and flexible in order to become robust, which is a fundamental requirement for achieving resilience.

A combined quality management philosophy (Lean Six Sigma), which is a first step toward resilience, will be presented in the course. However, five additional principles/factors are presented in the research literature and in the course to create resilient supply chains. These five principles will be covered: establishing a risk management culture, being design- and innovation-led, fostering collaboration and integration management, embedding values and methods, and creating processes that are agile and sustainable.

The main field of study of ​​industrial engineering and management includes industrial organization and operations management, logistics, purchasing, quality management, change management and knowledge management, with industrial marketing, financial management, business development and environmental technology as related subjects. Industrial engineering and management is defined as an interdisciplinary subject that integrates technical, organizational and economic perspectives to analyze, plan and improve resource management and business processes. The focus is on creating sustainable and effective solutions in complex systems taking into account technical, ecological, social and economic aspects from a holistic perspective. The main areas of emphasis within the main field of study of ​​industrial engineering and management at University West are knowledge management in logistics, development of Lean and agile systems with digitalization, resilience in supply chains, decision models for data-driven decision-making, operations management and quality and operations development. The subject has a strong applied and technical profile and addresses practice-relevant challenges for companies and organizations.

Other regulations

Course grading: F/Fx/E/D/C/B/A - Insufficient, Insufficient- more work required before the credit can be awarded, Sufficient, Satisfactory, Good, Very Good, Excellent

Course language: The teaching is conducted in English.

General rules pertaining to examination at University West are available at www.hv.se.

If the student has a decision/recommendation on special support due to disability, the examiner has the right to examine the student in a customized examination form.

Cycle

Second cycle

Progressive specialization

A1F - Second cycle, has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Main field of study

Industrial Engineering and Management