Master

Contents

Cycle of lecture

Dates of lecture

See GRIPS.

Lecture notes

General Information / Exam

Written, summer & winter. The participation in the re-examination is also open for students taking part for the first time. These examinations take place in the regular examination period. The dates will be indicated by the examination office - not by the chair. The written examinations in both summer and the winter term account for 100% of the total grad.

Information for Students from abroad, taking part in the Erasmus-Program

Students who need a certificate of attendance are asked to contact the lecturer after each lecture and exercise in order to document their presence.

Students taking part in the courses and in examinations will receive certificates, where grades and ECTS are documented. As for Erasmus-Students a registration for the examinations usually is not possible via "flex now", the registration can be done in our office. Information about the registration dates as well as about the examinations will be indicated in time on our homepage as well as on the information board in front of the library of economics (Teilbibliothek Wirtschaft).

The dates for the next Erasmus Examination will be given later in GRIPS.

Contents

This course is computer based. Students have to practise several tasks with standard software and algorithms (among other methods) to strategic, tactical and operational logistical topics.

This course is taught in English.

Cycle of lecture

 Irregular

Dates of lecture

The dates of the Lecture and the Exercise are indicated in the lecture timetable on GRIPS.

Lecture notes

Available via GRIPS
Further information concerning the exercises will be given in the lecture.

Several homework assignments

Examination

Oral. The participation in the re-examinations is - as usual - also open for students taking part for the first time. These examinations take place in the regular examination period. The exact dates will be indicated by the examination office - not by the chair.

Information for Students from abroad, taking part in the Erasmus-Program

Students who need a certificate of attendance are asked to contact the lecturer after each lecture and exercise in order to document their presence.

Students taking part in the courses and in examinations will receive certificates, where grades and ECTS are documented. As for Erasmus-Students a registration for the examinations usually is not possible via "flex now", the registration can be done in our office.

The examination in Decision Support in Logistics for erasmus and exchange students takes place within the examination of all course participants.

In order to take part in the examination and to recieve an erasmus certificate, candidates are asked to indicate in the office their name, matrikel-number and the phone number.

Contents

Introduces students to the basic concepts of logistics and supply chain management from a managerial perspective. Lays the groundwork for the other courses in the focus area. The lecture is held in German, as well as the examination. The case studies will be handed out in English. However, Erasmus students may do the case studies as well as the examination in English or in German.

Cycle of lecture

2-term (winter term)

Dates of lecture

Lecture notes

Available via GRIPS

Examination

Written, winter & summer. The participation in the re-examination is also open for students taking part for the first time. These examinations take place in the regular examination period. The dates will be indicated by the examination office - not by the chair.

The regular written examination in the winter term accounts for 80% of the total grade and is complemented by a supplementary term assignment, containing four case studies which account for 20% of the final grade.

In the sommer term the written examination for participants taking the exam for the first time accounts for 100% of the total grade. Therefore, the contents of the case studies are very important for the summer term's examination.

If a student generates the supplementary term assignment and registers for the examination, but, however, cannot take part in the examination or fails the examination, the supplementary term assignement will be transferred to the re-examination taking place in the summer term. The re-examination is the same exam as for students taking part for the first time.

If a student generates the supplementary term assignment and does not register for the examination, the supplementary term assignment expires.

The supplementary term assignment can only be transferred to the next term. If the student fails the total examination of Supply Chain Management in the summer term, the supplementary term assignment of the winter term expires. The reasons for the failure in the examination cannot be considered.

The examination has to be passed with 4,0 (scale from 1,0 to 5), in order to pass the total Supply Chain Management examination.

Information for Students from abroad, taking part in the Erasmus-Program

Students who need a certificate of attendance are asked to contact the lecturer after each lecture and exercise in order to document their presence.

Students taking part in the courses and in examinations will receive certificates, where grades and ECTS are documented. As for Erasmus-Students a registration for the examinations usually is not possible via "flex now", the registration can be done in our office. Information about the registration dates as well as about the examinations will be indicated in time on our homepage as well as on the information board in front of the library of economics (Teilbibliothek Wirtschaft).

Tutor: Florian Kellner

Contents

The course provides an introduction into methods and tools for analyzing and optimizing supply chains in an application-oriented way. It deals with advanced data analytic approaches in the areas of "Business Analytics" and "Data Science". Their application is illustrated by means of examples from supply chain management and by means of discipline-typical software packages.

The course "Business Analytics for Supply Chain Management (BA-SCM)" consists of two modules, namely BA-SCM I and BA-SCM II. One module is taught during the winter term and the other is taught during the summer term:

Chapters / Contents in the winter term

1. Programming
   Tools: MS Excel / Visual Basic for Applications
2. Descriptive Analytics (Data queries and vizualisation)
   Tools: MS Access, Power BI
3. Predictive Analytics (Forecasting)
   Methods: Regression, Time series, Arima, Neural networks
   Tools: MS Excel, R
4. Prescriptive Analytics (Operations Research)
   Methods: (Non-)Linear Optimization, Multi-objective optimization
   Tools: MS Excel, IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio, Python

Chapters / Contents in the summer term

5. Development of a Data Analytics Application
   Contents: software / app development, recap, outlook (conditionally: data classification and clustering, geospatial analysis, cloud computing)
   Tools: R Shiny, SQLite, AWS

Cycle and Dates of lecture

Business Analytics for Supply Chain Management I
- Semester: Winter
- Dates of lecture: available via SPUR

Business Analytics for Supply Chain Management II
- Semester: Summer
- Dates of lecture: available via SPUR

Lecture notes

Available via GRIPS

Registration and further information

Via Email (Florian Kellner)

Information about the next information session as well as the topic assignment for the seminar in Controlling and Logistics will be indicated later.

The chair of Controlling and Logistics offers a joint seminar with the Chair of Prof. Dr. Schwarz. For further information click here.

By the winter term 2014/15 every master student has to frequent a seminar at our chair in order to prepare the master thesis at our chair.

Please, see - as well - to our guidelines for thesis.

The master seminar discusses various topics in Controlling, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Start: Monday,  June 19th, 2016 from 8:00 - 10:00 (c. t.) in W 114.

All further dates will then be indicated here.

In order to see the available master thesis please come to our office. It is also possible to deliver your own thesis proposition. Please take a flex-now-document with you for the detailed discussion.
 

By the winter term 2014/15 every master student has to frequent a seminar at our chair in order to prepare the master thesis at our chair.
Please, see - as well - to our guidelines for thesis.

 Please contact us for any additional questions.