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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
   
Supply Chain and Logistics Planning - AM501032
Title: Supply Chain and Logistics Planning
Form of teaching: lecture+practicals
Guaranteed by: Department of Economics and Management (837)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2021
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:6
E-Credits: winter s.:6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 30 (unknown)
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Repeated enrollment: - / - / - / 9
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Vašek Jan PhDr. Bc. MSc. et MSc.
Classification: Economics > Economy
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Course completion requirements

Active participation in lectures - answer a short essay question related to the lecture during the lecture. (0-2 points per answer, 22 points maximum, minimum 10 points).

Active participation in workshops - answer short essay questions during the workshop. (0-1 point, 16 points maximum, minimum 8 points).

Procurement software case-studies - resolve 2 simple procurement software challenges (supplier evaluation and improvement program) - 0-17 points, maximum 17 points, minimum 9 points).

Exam based on course material. 15 short essay questions or multiple choice questions (0-3 points, 45 points maximum, minimum 23 points).

Last update: Vašek Jan (07.09.2026)
Literature

Obligatory:

  • Davor Dujak, Adam Kolinski, Josip Mesarić. Supply Chain and Logistics Design. Poznan: Poznan School of Logistics, 2020, s. ISBN ISBN 978-83-62285-39.
  • Michał Adamczak, Piotr Cyplik, Rebeka Kovačič Lukman, Maja Fošner et al.. Supply Chain and Logistics Planning. Poznan: Poznan School of Logistics, 2019, s. ISBN ISBN 978-83-62285-43.

Last update: Vašek Jan (07.09.2026)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Minimum 51 points from all activities combined (and minimum for each activity reached).

Last update: Vašek Jan (07.09.2026)
Syllabus

Lectures will be available online in advance. Students will be asked to answer a short essay question during the lecture time (see e-learning).

The What and Why:

1. Supply chain planning in the era of volatility

2. Supply chain management and competitive strategy

3. What supply chain designers and planners do

Basic Managerial toolkit:

4. Responsive supply chain

5. Tripple A supply chain / Agile SC strategy / Just in time

6. Delivering customer value / Perfect order and dealing with stock-outs

7. How many suppliers do you need?

8. SC- planning operational issues

Strategy:

9. Spare parts and logistics strategy / Construction supply chain

10. Supply chain innovation - when you SC dies

11. Managing supply chain complexity and risk

12. Servitization

Trends and challenges:

13. Procurement compliance

14. Sustainable supply chain

Workshops (case study):

1. How to do strategic supply chain planning

2. Dell case study Analysis

3. Digital transformation in LEGO

4. Negotiation with generative AI

5. Promitea - supplier evaluation

6. Promitea - supplier improvement

7. Demand management process

8. Supply chain Risk Management

Last update: Vašek Jan (07.09.2026)
 
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