Molde University College Specialized University in Logistics LOG904 – Logistics Seminar Series – Program Fall 2012

Week Start Seminar Description 34 20.08. 043 - Cross cultural management. The aim of the seminar is to offer an insight and understanding of Irena Mamonova, Belarussian State University, Belarus. how cross cultural issues manifest themselves in organizations. Mandatory for MSc Event Management. Topics: - Dimensions of culture - Cross cultural communication - Managing and motivating across cultures - Cross cultural negotiations Assignments - Class participation - Quizzes - Cross-cultural dialogues - Group presentations of Culture Profiles. - Final exam 34 20.08. 005 - Models for logistics and transportation planning. Theo Crainic, University of Montreal, Canada. 35 27.08. 003 - Product variety. Taylor Randall, University of Utah, USA. 35 27.08. 011 - Scheduling models and algorithms. Vitaly Strusevich, University of Greenwich, UK. 36 03.09. 078 - Lean Production. The course aims to give students insight into basic elements and Karolis Dugnas, Molde University College. trends of Lean Thinking (Production). Lean is in general perceived as a management/production philosophy, a business model, and a long-term strategy. Focus on value creation in production and methods for elimination of wasteful activities will constitute an essential part of the course. Seen from the Lean perspective, students will be introduced to aspects of management, production and process control as well as continuous improvement within different types of organizations. 36 03.09. 045 - Integrated logistics and operations: learning You will play several interactive internet -based games to further through games. develop and refine your intuition and knowledge of operations Glen Schmidt, University of Utah, USA. and supply chain management, as applied to both services and manufacturing. As a prerequisite, students are expected to have basic knowledge of operations and logistics management, however, operations principles will be further reviewed and games can be played quite competently using qualitative analysis (good quantitative analysis generally further enhances performance). Topics may include product design, forecasting, pooling, the impact of variability, capacity management, managing bottlenecks, inventory management, managing lead times, customer responsiveness, and the bullwhip effect. 37 10.09. 007 - Value creation in customer relationships. In order to differentiate customers for implementing appropriate Trond Hammervoll, Harstad University College. logistical strategy (e.g. differentiated service levels), ABC-analysis is today the only tool available for logisticians. This tool relies on the assumption that important customers are those that currently accounts for important shares of sales or profits, and that important customers should be “better” treated than other customers. An important drawback is that joint value creation efforts are not accounted for, and that the recommendations given by ABC-analysis, if followed, means that customers that are important in that regard do not receive proper attention. During the seminar the students become familiar with methods for developing customer relationships in industrial markets where suppliers by cooperating with customer firms enhance own learning and/or development. 37 10.09. 063 - Applied Dynamic and Stochastic Programming for logistics. Pavel Popela, Brno University of Technology, Czech Rep. 38 17.09. 074 - Air Transport Management. The seminar provides a detailed insight into the many and varied George Williams, University of Cranfield, UK. economic, operational and regulatory issues faced by managers of airlines. The seminar begins with an overview of the current state of the global airline industry and of its likely future trends. An examination of the low cost airline business model and its many variants follows. Other topics covered include: the regulation of international air services; the scheduling of air services; the s tructure of airline costs and a comparison of the operating costs of network, low cost scheduled and charter airlines; the provision of air services in remoter regions; and the measurement of airline performance. Recommended main reading is Stephen Holloway's book Straight and Level (3rd edition) published by Ashgate in 2008 and Rigas Doganis's book Flying Off Course, the 4 th edition of which was published by Routledge in January 2010. The seminar is assessed by a 2 hours written exam. 38 17.09. 077 - Distribution systems: Models, design, Most of distribution processes are designed in the frame, which is optimization. represented by located facilities as warehouses, terminals, plants Jaroslav Janacek, Michal Koháni, University of Zilina, and others, which form structure of designed service system. This Slovak Rep. structure plays substantial role in efficiency and feasibility of the service system performance and its design is made under considerable uncertainty concerning input data. The course is focused on the decision-making support methods, which can be employed, when strategic decisions on the service system design are made. Participants of this course will be acquainted with model building of the design problems. They will be informed about principles of solving techniques and they will get some experience with model solving using optimization environment. The data uncertainty will be discussed and processed by tools of the theory of fuzzy sets. 39 24.09. 081 - Computational Optimization Models for The course aims to provide students with knowledge of the Production Planning. fundamental issues that impact the performance of components Dave Woodruff, University of California, USA. of the supply chain and the supply chain itself and to introduce students to quantitative techniques for managing production, distribution and the provision of services within the supply chain. Assignments include working AMPL models of fundamental production planning models. The course also examines classic planning models such as MRP II and considers the impacts of queuing. 40 01.10. 022 - Research Design. Arnt Buvik, Molde University College. Mandatory for MSc Logistics and MSc Event Management. 41 08.10. 082 - Managing Channel Relationships. Rodney Stump, Towson University - Maryland, USA. 41 08.10. 079 - Simulation I: Basic concepts and principles. Jaume Barcelo, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain - Yauhen Maisiuk, Molde University College. 42 15.10. 084 – Visual Analytics Visual Analytics is the visual extension of Business Intelligence. Kristoffer Singstad, Maritech Systems AS Visual Analytics has proven to be a valuable technique in handling the vast amount of data available. In this seminar we focus on practical use of Visual analytics in Supply Chain Management. Real business data will be visualized using tools from Google. Prerequisites are a basic working knowledge of spreadsheet software. The goals of this seminar are two-folded, first to develop an understanding of the use of visual analytics in supply chain management, and, second, to apply methods and tools both to visual- and analytical- challenges using real world data. Evaluation: oral examination on Friday. 42 15.10. 085 – Decision Modeling and Applications The seminar provides an introduction to the most commonly Rafa Marti, Universidad de Valencia, Spain used Operations Research and Management science techniques in the context of Optimization. This is an applied course in which students will be exposed to a variety of decision modeling applications from business and engineering with realistic examples. The course will show how to use Excel spreadsheet to solve them effectively. We cover the modeling approach, from developing a mathematical model to analyzing the results, the families of solving methods, including exact and heuristic approaches, and the mono and multi- objective optimization models. 43 22.10. 049 - Distribution management. This seminar will cover the following topics in distribution Gilbert Laporte, University of Montreal, Canada. management: 1) classical and modern heuristics for the vehicle routing problem; 2) arc routing problems; 3) introduction to location models and algorithms; 4) applications. Evaluation: one reading report (20%); final exam on Friday pm (80%). 44 29.10. 075 – Green Logistics Svein Bråthen, Molde University College. 44 29.10. 080 - Simulation II: Arena Simulation Software + project. Jaume Barcelo, Yauhen Maisiuk. 45 05.11. 076 - Strategic Management in Maritime Transport. The module is designed to: Alf Baird, Edinburgh Napier University, UK. - Inform students about the methods and practices used in strategic management in regard to the maritime transport industry - Give insight into the formal and informal processes that enable the making of complex, multi-factorial and cross- functional decisions that need to be made by senior management when leading a maritime transport organisation to success in its market Key aims are: - Enable students to understand and analyse the processes and methods which an organisation uses when planning future actions - Expose students to the highly competitive, dynamic and complex business environment - Explore and appreciate the organisational dynamics when formulating and implementing competitive strategies - Learn and apply relevant methods and techniques for analysing the maritime industry environment, industry and organisations - Integrate and establish within students the ability to learn how to continually analyse business environment changes in seeking to develop competitive advantage 45 05.11. 064 - AMPL II - advanced techniques. Erik Van Eikenhorst, Molde University College. 46 12.11. 050 - Productivity Analysis. James Odeck, Norwegian University of Science & Technology. 46 12.11. 086 – Offshore Upstream Logistics Irina Gribkovskaia, Molde University College. 47 19.11. 059 - Contracts in supply chains. Kurt Jörnsten, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. 47 19.11. 087 – Business Intelligence Anastasia Karalkova, Molde University College. 49 03.12. 036 - Proposal presentations. Mandatory for MSc logistics (Molde).