Course section 1.7: Subsections and their intended learning outcomes

1.7 Scenarios and Exercises
Intended learning outcomes: Describe improvements in meeting entrepreneurial objectives. Differentiate between entrepreneurial objectives and the ROI. Assessing the Economic Value Added (EVA) of Supply Chain Initiatives. Derive rough-cut business objects from detailed business objects.
1.7.1 Exercise: Improvements in Meeting Entrepreneurial Objectives
Intended learning outcomes: Identify several problems with regard to the entrepreneurial objectives for an example company that manufactures a single product. Disclose and discuss possible measures in each of the four target areas (quality, costs, delivery, and flexibility).
1.7.2 Scenario: Entrepreneurial Objectives and ROI
Intended learning outcomes: Explain, using examples, how to determine exactly whether the increase in revenue will be cancelled out by the increased costs for improvement measures in the four target areas (quality, costs, delivery, and flexibility).
1.7.3 Scenario: Assessing the Economic Value Added (EVA) of Supply Chain Initiatives: The Supply Chain Value Contribution (SCVC)
Intended learning outcomes: Describe the supply chain value contribution (SCVC). Explain selected supply chain events and their relationship to current assets.

1.7.3b Scenario: An Example Representation of the Economic Value Added (EVA) of a Supply Chain Initiative
Intended learning outcomes: Explain an example representation of the value of a supply chain initiative (SCI) in the form of the Economic value added (EVA).
1.7.4 Exercise: Rough-Cut Business Objects
Intended learning outcomes: Explain how to determine the process plan, the rough-cut process plan, and a possible load profile for an example product P.

Course 1: Sections and their intended learning outcomes

Course 1 – Logistics, Operations, and Supply Chain Management
Intended learning outcomes: Describe basic definitions, issues, and challenges. Identify business partners and business objects. Explain strategies in the entrepreneurial context. Disclose how performance is measured.
1.1 Basic Definitions, Issues, and Challenges
Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on terms of the working environment and of business life. Explain service orientation in the classical industry, product orientation in the service industry, and the industrial product-service system. Disclose the product life cycle, the synchronization of supply and demand, and the role of inventories. Produce an overview on supply chain management, the role of planning and control as well as the SCOR model.
1.2 Business Objects
Intended learning outcomes: Present business-partner, and order-related business objects in detail. Explain product-related, process-related, and resource-related business objects. Produce an overview on rough-cut business objects.

1.3 Logistics, Operations and Supply Chain Management Strategies in the Entrepreneurial Context
Intended learning outcomes: Differentiate between various entrepreneurial objectives in a company and in a supply chain. Explain resolving conflicting entrepreneurial objectives. Describe the customer order penetration point (OPP) and the coordination with product and process design. Produce an overview on the target area flexibility: investments in enabling organizations, processes, basic technologies, and technologies toward personalized production.
1.4 Performance Indicators and Performance Measurement
Intended learning outcomes: Present the basics of the measurement, meaning, and practical applicability of logistics performance indicators. Describe performance indicators in the target areas of quality, costs, delivery, and flexibility. Produce an overview on performance indicators of the primary entrepreneurial objective.
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1.6 Keywords
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1.7 Scenarios and Exercises
Intended learning outcomes: Describe improvements in meeting entrepreneurial objectives. Differentiate between entrepreneurial objectives and the ROI. Assessing the Economic Value Added (EVA) of Supply Chain Initiatives. Derive rough-cut business objects from detailed business objects.
1.8 References
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