EMSc Program in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Course Structure

The Programme requires students to complete the 16 required courses (24 credits in total). Students are assessed on the basis of their performance in course examinations and other assignments. A student shall be required to discontinue studies in the programme, if he has received failure grades in two or more courses.

The degree of Master of Science will be conferred upon students who have completed the prescribed coursework with a cumulative grade-point average of 2.0 or above.

Courses Description

All are 1.5-unit courses of 21 class hours per course.

SEG 8101 Essentials of Engineering Management

This course provides fundamental principles of managing engineering and industrial organizations. The focus is on the use of qualitative and quantitative approaches in the practices of engineering management. Quantitative modeling and solution techniques for strategic and operational problems are discussed. Applications in various business functions such as finance, marketing, production, logistics and supply chain management are examined.

SEG 8102 Strategies in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

The objective of this course is to teach students how to develop a comprehensive supply chain strategy to support overall business strategy. The course examines the role of logistics in a firm's overall strategy and explains how creating a strategic fit between a firm's competitive strategy and its supply chain strategy affects performance. Topics also include industry analysis, strategic positioning and analysis, logistics strategy formation, and performance measures, and benchmarking procedures.

SEG 8103 Cost and Financial Analysis for Supply Chains

This course introduces costing and financing principles relevant to supply chain management. Topics include performance and profitability measures, activity-based costing, and project evaluation and capital spending. Other issues such as sources of capital, leasing, and mergers and acquisitions may also be addressed.

SEG 8104 Principles of Engineering Economics

This course is an introduction to the economics theory, essential to understand how individuals and firms behave. Topics include the market force of supply and demand, concepts of costs and choices, profit maximization, concept of equilibrium, and elementary game theory and models.

SEG 8105 Demand and Customer Relationship Management

This course provides an overview of demand-side management and tools for customer relationship management (CRM). Demand-side management focuses on market research, demand estimation and revenue management. The course also explores the importance of CRM in the Internet era and IT tools for implementation. Topics include principles of marketing, tools for forecasting, and optimization approaches to revenue management.

SEG 8107 Decision Methodologies

This course explores the fundamentals of decision-making concepts and  methodologies. Topics include decision tree and influence diagram, risk preference, utility functions and construction methods, subjective probability and assessment methodologies, Bayesian analysis and information updating, value of information, trade-offs and multiobjective decision-making, and applications to supply chain management and risk management.

SEG 8108 Supply Chain Coordination and Integration

This course focuses on the coordination and relationship among the links of a supply chain and its interactions with others. Topics include drivers of supply chain performance, bullwhip effect, supply chain collaboration, and incentives for supply chain coordination.

SEG 8109 Manufacturing Logistics

This course addresses the key drivers of effective management of logistics in manufacturing systems. Topics include the basics of inventory management, inventory risk pooling, various forms of postponement, risk-based production planning, JIT, and push-and-pull production systems.

SEG 8110 Transportation Logistics

This course addresses the planning, implementation and control of processes involved in the transport and storage of materials from the point of origin (as raw materials) to the point of consumption (as finished goods). Topics include transportation modes, global network design, fleet management, routing and scheduling, goods consolidation and dis-aggregation, warehouse location and layout. Issues in multi-modal transport and international logistics are also discussed.

SEG 8111 ERP Systems and SCM Solutions

This course provides a strategic view of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and its relationship to supply chain and logistics functions. Topics include the evolution of supply chain and logistics management systems and tools, a comparison of current ERP software: the logistics planning process, the components of ERP, supply chain planning (SCP) and supply chain execution (SCE), and future directions of ERP and SCM solutions.

SEG 8112 Game Theory and Applications

This course provides fundamentals of game theory and its application in decision-making. Topics include dominance. Nash equilibrium and static game, non-zero-sum game and applications in bargaining and negotiation, dynamic game in market competition, and applications in bidding and auction, international policy coordination, and strategic trade policy.

SEG 8114 Practitioner's Workshops

This capstone course is composed of lectures and presentations by experts and practitioners.

SEG 8115 Field Studies

Through a series of company visits, students will be exposed to different business environments and learn various forms of operations and management.

SEG 8117 Global Logistics Financing

This course explores current developments in global logistics management. It covers the structure of international trade and transportation, maritime and air transports, air freight operating procedures, and customs. Other topics include strategies for global sourcing, vendor selections, and impact of international trade regulations.

SEG 8118 Global Logistics Financing

This course introduces fundamentals of financial settlement pertinent to global logistics. It covers the nature of foreign exchange markets, exchange rate risk and its management. Other topics include international financing, insurance and settlement-related documentation.

SEG 8119 Service Logistics

This course discusses specific features of supply-chain/logistics in services such as perishability, intangibility, and bidirectional supply relationships. Topics include the role of services in an economy, the nature of services: distinctive characteristics of service operations, supply chain and logistics management in services, perishability / separability of service goods and their effect on service logistics, inventory control models for perishable products, managing service supply capacity, managing service demand, and revenue management and dynamic pricing.