Course - Global Supply Chain Management - AM305918
AM305918 - Global Supply Chain Management
About
Examination arrangement
Examination arrangement: School exam
Grade: Letter grades
Evaluation | Weighting | Duration | Grade deviation | Examination aids |
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School exam | 100/100 | 4 hours | D |
Course content
- The logistics and SCM concept
- Global supply chains
- Logistics and customer value
- Relationships and strategies within supply chains
- Logistics activities - transport, inventory and materials handling
- Purchasing and procurement
- SCM, complexity and vulnerability
- Responsiveness, integration and profitability in the supply chain
- Overview of export/import & the Sunnmøre region/Norway
- Export - import documentation and steps
- Methods and instruments of payment and pricing
- Export and import strategies and practices
- Export marketing
- Methods of financing exporters
- Customs clearance of import and export cargo
- Shipping
- Export procedures and documents
- Incoterms
- World Trade Organization
- Barriers to exporting
- Determinants of export performance
- Exporter/importer behavior
- Usefulness of export information sources
- Exporting problems & barriers
- Technology & export behavior
- Ethical issues in export/import
- Export propensity, intensity & firm performance
Learning outcome
Knowledge:
- Master core terminology within logistics and supply chain management
- Identify and describe various logistics challenges
- Explain how logistics and supply chain management can be used to enhance a company's competitive advantage
- Account for various strategies within logistics and supply chain management
- A global perspective of supply chain management.
- Understand network thinking in regards to export. This includes the role of import in relation to export, including the role of business relationships with customers, suppliers, supporting actors such as consultants, financial institutions, logistics service providers.
- Appreciation of the role of export/import process in the globalized world market.
Skills:
- Describe complexity and vulnerability in the supply chain
- Have a broad overview of the export-import process and its related literature and research streams.
- Have the ability to do basic analysis of import-export data.
- Have the ability to create export and import plans
Competence:
- Have an understanding of how supply chain activities and export/import from a network perspective can create customer value
Learning methods and activities
Teaching methods: Lectures, group assignments, case presentations and discussions. Mandatory assignment: Two mandatory group assignments must be approved prior to the written exam. Passed mandatory exercise is valid for later continuation exams.
Compulsory assignments
- Assigment
Further on evaluation
4 hours written individual exam. The use of a basic calculator is allowed. Previously approved mandatory assignments do not need to be handed in again for later exams.
Specific conditions
Compulsory activities from previous semester may be approved by the department.
Recommended previous knowledge
As required for admission to Norwegian higher education
Required previous knowledge
None
Course materials
Required books: J. Mangan, C. Lalwani: Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management, John Wiley & Sons (2016), ISBN: 9781119117827 Paul, J. & Aserkar, R. Export Import Management, Oxford University Press (Fourth impression 2016), ISBN: 9780198089407 A collection of research articles/papers in addition to the textbooks.
Credit reductions
Course code | Reduction | From | To |
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AM302212 | 3.5 | AUTUMN 2018 | |
AM301908 | 4.0 | AUTUMN 2018 |
No
Version: 1
Credits:
7.5 SP
Study level: Third-year courses, level III
Term no.: 1
Teaching semester: SPRING 2023
Language of instruction: English
Location: Ålesund
- Economics and Administration
Department with academic responsibility
Department of International Business
Examination
Examination arrangement: Home exam
- Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
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Autumn
UTS
Home exam (1)
100/100
Release
2022-11-29Submission
2022-11-29
09:00
INSPERA
13:00 -
Room Building Number of candidates
Examination arrangement: School exam
- Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
- Spring ORD School exam 100/100 D 2023-06-06 09:00 INSPERA
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Room Building Number of candidates
- * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
- 1) Merk at eksamensform er endret som et smittevernstiltak i den pågående koronasituasjonen.
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