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Port Management and Maritime Logistics

International Supply Chain Management

Mid-level logistics and trade professionals not previously involved in the subject

Volatile markets require more than ever a flexible and market-oriented focus on your value chain. Thus, the effective and efficient planning and design of your procurement, production and logistics networks has long since evolved into a strategic competitive factor. The business processes in the logistics management provide the employees with major challenges. Only by considering all factors and external influences a sustainable, resource saving, environmentally-friendly a value-driven logistics management is possible.

Your Benefit

This course introduces you to the concept of Supply Chain Management (SCM). SCM mends together organisations into efficient value chains to fulfill customer demand focussing on seamless material, financial and information flows. The course is built around SCM as a leadership concept designed to integrate and manage all partners to from efficient supply and distribution networks.

After having completed the course you are able to

  • consider SCM as an integrative management tool
  • describe and categorise the key decision making criteria along supply chains
  • describe and categorise the key decision making criteria along supply chains
  • explore and analyse your own`s organization`s position in international supply chains

Finally in this course you get the methodical competence to apply the SCM toolbox to questions of supply chains and to develop an analytical toolbox for supply chain assessment and design.

    • Basic architecture and concept of supply chains as forms of inter-organisational cooperation
    • The challenge of international SCM and cross-border logistics
    • The dimensions of SCM: Design & network dimension, financing, marketing, IT and the operational dimension
Learning / Teaching Methods

Key Note Introductions, Class Room Discussions, Case Studies, Group Work

Certification

Certificate of Participation 

Venue

Germany, China

Duration

3 days