Undergraduate course
Dates
Dates to be confirmed, 2021: Arrival dates and pick-up service
June 7 - July 2, 2021: The programme takes place
Purchasing Logistics with a Global Perspective
10 ECTS credits
The aim of this course is to give advanced knowledge of logistics in purchasing and supply chain management with a global perspective. The focus is on the purchasing functions importance for the company result. The course includes the following elements:
- Purchasing and strategic sourcing
- Supply chain management, Globalization and Incoterms
- Initiate supplier relations: define needs, specify and document
- Assess supplier portfolio, select suppliers
- Prepare negotiations with regard to TCO and cost break-down
- Legal aspects, contracts, delivery and payment terms and contract management
- Supplier relations, Systems for managing supplier relationships (SRM)
- Sustainability and Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Purchase orders, performance measurements (KPIs), and supplier evaluation
- Supplier development process
- Terminate supplier relations
PREREQUISITES
- 60 credits first cycle courses in industrial engineering, business administration, computer information systems or equivalent
- Fluency in English equivalent to at least 575 (paper based test) or 90 (internet based test) TOEFL score (or equivalent
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