What is it all about?
Logistics and supply chain management (SCM) are the foundation of global trade: they connect companies in global networks. They make a decisive contribution to a company's success. They are closely linked to all business processes such as corporate management, controlling, financing and marketing.
Social challenges are already a reality in logistics and SCM: internationalization, globalization, sustainability and demographic change are already shaping supply chains and value creation networks today. Digitalization, the Internet of Things and the idea of Industry 4.0 are permeating all processes. Technological progress promises many opportunities, but will massively change the world of work in logistics, which is still very people-intensive today, in the coming years.
The Digital Supply Chain Management stream helps you as a future decision-maker in logistics and SCM to develop the skills relevant to the transformation through the interdisciplinary networking of logistics with business administration and IT.
The Digital Supply Chain Management stream teaches this specialist content:
- Understand the starting points, concepts and scope of digital transformation in logistics and supply chain management.
- Assess success factors, risks and limits of digitalized processes in value chains.
- Carry out planning in logistics and SCM based on methods and data and make well-founded decisions.
- Structure, lead and manage new and reorganization projects.
- Assess the suitability and maturity of technologies in all development phases of digitalization in supply chain management and logistics.
- Identify the required skills and abilities of employees.
- Act confidently in global and international companies.
The Digital Supply Chain Management stream is unique because:
- ... the digital transformation is understood as an interdisciplinary design task.
- ... the disciplines of business administration, logistics and IT are combined with a focus on digitalization.
- ... leadership and design skills for socially responsible transformation are taught.
- ... case study and project-oriented work is addressed in a largely English-language study program.
- ... is taught in an application-oriented manner, embedded in a local network of research institutions and companies.
The course content and curriculum of the Digital Supply Chain Management stream are designed as follows:
Example: Three-semester study option
| 1st semester | 2nd semester | 3rd semester |
|
Principles of Digital Supply Chain Management |
Supply Chain Process Improvements | Thesis & colloquium |
| Strategic Management | SCM Applications | |
| Supply Chain Planning under Uncertainty | Managing Global Business Projects | |
| Management Case Studies | Compulsory elective module | |
| Compulsory elective module | Compulsory elective module |
In the four-semester study option, the first and second semesters are identical to the three-semester study option. The third semester includes a practical semester or a semester abroad. The thesis and colloquium follow in the fourth semester.
The compulsory elective modules/electives can be chosen freely from the following range:
| 1st semester | 2nd semester |
| Digital Transformation | Business Intelligence |
|
Mobile Business and Mobile Systems |
Digital Skills |
| Cross-Cultural Management |
ERP and SCE - standard programs and enhancement concepts |
|
Advanced Business Process Management |
Quality Management and Standards |
| Macroeconomics and Finance | Corporate Sustainability |
| Marketing Management |
Who does it suit?
Anyone wishing to study this stream must have:
A Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, business informatics, business logistics or similar, with at least 75% of the Bachelor's degree being in economics.
Who has a degree in this study program,
- works in the senior management of medium-sized and large companies and other organizations or as a company founder.
- takes on initial management tasks in logistics, SCM, purchasing.
- or completes a doctorate, for example cooperatively at Fachhochschule Dortmund!
