Valid for: 2024/25
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering LTH
Decided by: PLED I
Date of Decision: 2024-04-16
Effective: 2024-05-08
Main field: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Depth of study relative to the degree requirements: Second cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Elective mandatory for: MLOG2
Elective for: E5, I5-lf, M5-lp
Language of instruction: The course will be given in English
The purpose of the course is to provide understanding and skills for how to assess, select, implement and use information systems for supply chains, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and different types of systems for design, planning, and control of supply chains. The students shall be familiar with selected systems and their advantages and disadvantages, through guest lectures, laboratory sessions and industrial projects. The students will work in groups with mapping and analyses of the overall system architecture as well as specific application areas.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
The course consists of lectures, guest lectures, laboratory sessions, and group projects. The lectures will introduce the students to various types of information systems for supply chains. Guest lectures present specific information systems within selected areas by software vendors as well as experience from industrial users of the systems. Laboratory sessions are conducted to deepen the students’ knowledge and understanding of these systems applications and introduce them to the user interfaces. The students will also carry out group projects in collaboration with industrial partners.
The course will deal with the following themes:
• Benefits and drawbacks of information systems in the context of supply chains
• System architecture and functionality
• Content and applicability of different types of supply chain information systems
• Implementation aspects
Grading scale: TH - (U, 3, 4, 5) - (Fail, Three, Four, Five)
Assessment: Project work in groups, and individual assignments. Compulsory attendance may occur in certain parts.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Modules
Code: 0115. Name: Project.
Credits: 6.0. Grading scale: UG - (U, G).
Assessment: Satisfactorily completed projects.
Code: 0215. Name: Individual Assignment.
Credits: 1.5. Grading scale: UG - (U, G).
Assessment: Approved individual assignments.
Admission requirements:
Course coordinator: Sandeep Jagtap,
sandeep.jagtap@tlog.lth.se
Examinator: Sandeep Jagtap,
sandeep.jagtap@tlog.lth.se
Course homepage: https://www.tlog.lth.se