Curriculum "Global Supply Chain Management"

FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT

• Innovative strategies for sustainable entrepreneurship
• Financial performance management
• Business & sustainability: transition & durability
• Public speaking, visual communication & design
• Data management
• Marketing reconsidered
• Team management & inclusivity
• Ecological challenges & organisational management

EXPERT SKILLS

• 2 pre-specialisation courses in global supply chain management

LEARNING BY DOING

• Impact project: Transition, sustainability or inclusivity

REAL-WORLD SCENARIOS

• Case studies: Decarbonation & business methodology
• Corporate Project:
  A consultancy mission on a real and current issue of a company. Corporate projects enable participants to gain valuable hands-on experience of business conduct and strategy and deal with the practical complexities. Students are guided by their KEDGE tutor throughout the project. The assignment is done in groups of 4 to 5 students. A combination of collective and individual work. Final presentation in front of the corporate and KEDGE tutors.

ADDITIONAL COURSES

• Languages:
  -English / FLE (French as a Foreign Language)
• Hard Skills:
  -TOSA Excel & coding skills
  -TOEIC preparation
  -Orthodidacte
  -Option to spend a semester abroad at a partner university
• Choose your experience:
  -Internship in the UK or abroad
  -Undertake another corporate project

SEMESTER 1

MANAGERIAL AND TECHNICAL BASICS
Master the tools required for strategic management and Global Supply Chain analysis:

• Analytical tools
• Financial management
• Supply chain relationship
• Supply chain leadership
• Research methods

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS
Learn Global Supply Chain Management Techniques and place them in a corporate context through case studies:

• Global supply chain management
• Supply chain production
• Supply chain transport
• Supply chain distribution

SEMESTER 2

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN APPROACHES & METHODOLOGIES
Understand Global Supply Chain Management processes, their design and methods for analysis and implementation:

• Designing robust supply chain network
• Lean supply chain management
• UML method
• SCM impact on finance
• Cash management

MANAGING INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Use the analysis of organisational strategy, customer expectations and country-specific constraints to understand how Global Supply Chains are designed and implemented:

• International economics environment
• Legal issues of SCM
• Design international supply chain & distribution strategy
• Risk supply chain management
• Decision making
• Intercultural management
• Change management
• Sustainable supply chain design

ADDITIONAL CONTENT

STUDY TRIP

INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIP
Enable students to apply Global Supply Chain approaches that they have learned during a six month long assignment within a multinational company

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN DISSERTATION
Students define theoretical models on a Global Supply Chain topic and apply them to a company