06330146 - Management of Partnerships / Procurement

Crédits ECTS 3
Volume horaire total 2E+1
Volume horaire CM 20

Responsables

Objectifs

The goal of the course is to present Supply Chain challenges taking in account international environment.
One of the main message : the rôle of  the Supply Chain is to support the company strategy and « business model

Estimation of private study (outside of contact hours): 15 hours

DIMENSION OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Make sure to buy worldwide in accordance with human rights (suppliers audit ) 

TARGETED KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS 
By the end of this course, srudents should be able to: 
  • Understand a company’s partnership and procurement strategy
  • Identify different types of transportation and understand their Pros and Cons
  • Implement a Supply Chain strategy in different areas: transportation, distribution…
  • Contribute to IT project as active team member by making proposals and suggestions to improve it.

Contenu

COURSE OUTLINE

I - The goal of Supply chain management
I-1 Definition
I-2 The different mission
I-3 Supply chain management challenges  (risk management )

II - Gaining competitive advantage through supply chain management
II-1 Supply chain excellence matrix  (context parameters ,shareholders ,profit ,marketing …) 
II-2 Supply chain cost and value advantage


III Manufacturing and the supply chain
IV-1 Marketing versus Operations  (incoterms ) 
IV-2 Operations issues
IV-3 Sales and Operations
IV-4 Application

V Supply chain performance  (tco concept ) 
V-1 Supply chain cost
V-2 Supply chain performance implementation
V-3 The supply chain balanced scorecard

VI-SCM strategies and inventories
VI-1 Demand forecasting issues
VI-2 Sourcing strategies
VI-3 Distribution strategies
VI-4 Inventory strategies

Bibliographie

RECOMMENDED TEXTS AND PUBLICATIONS

1. Gateau, D. & Barroin, D. (2019). La révolution des organisations, Pearson, Paris.
2. Hong, X., Zhou, M., He, Z., Zhou, P., & Chen, Y. J. (2024). Centralization or Decentralization? The Effect of Cost Learning on Procurement Strategy. Production and Operations Management, 10591478241270128.
3. Krause, K. & Schnitzler, T. (2022). Business Partner Management, Springer Weisbaden.
4. Lăzăroiu, G., Ionescu, L., Uță, C., Hurloiu, I., Andronie, M., & Dijmărescu, I. (2020). Environmentally responsible behavior and sustainability policy adoption in green public procurement. Sustainability, 12(5), 2110.
5. Letunovska, N., Offei, F. A., Junior, P. A., Lyulyov, O., Pimonenko, T., & Kwilinski, A. (2023). Green Supply Chain Management: The Effect of Procurement Sustainability on Reverse Logistics. Logistics, 7(3), 47.
6. Lysons, K. & Farrington, B. (2020), Procurement and Supply Chain Management, 10th Ed. Pearson Education Limited, UK
7. Seyedghorban, Z., Samson, D., & Tahernejad, H. (2020). Digitalization opportunities for the procurement function: pathways to maturity. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 40(11), 1685-1693.
8. Vecchi, V., Cusumano, N., Casady, C. B., Gatti, S., & Borgonovo, E. (2022). Addressing adverse selection in public-private partnership (PPP) procurement: An agent-based approach. Public Works Management & Policy, 27(4), 371-395.

EMBLEMATIC BOOKS OR RESEARCH PAPERS REGARDING THE SUBJECT OF THE COURSE

1. Cohen, S., & Roussel, J. (2005). Strategic supply chain management: the five core disciplines for top performance. 2nd Ed. McGraw-Hill.
2. Gerpott, F. H. (2015). The right strategy? Examining the business partner model's functionality for resolving Human Resource Management tensions and discussing alternative directions. German Journal of Human Resource Management, 29(3-4), 214-234.
3. Scully, J. I., & Fawcett, S. E. (1994). International procurement strategies: Challenges and opportunities for the small firm. Production and Inventory Management Journal, 35(2), 39.

Contrôles des connaissances

Individual grade
Group presentation, 20min

Other grade(s)
Grading during class
Written test, 1h

Weight : 50% / 50%

Informations complémentaires

TEACHING METHODS
NATURE OF MATERIALS


Course content include powerpoints, videos (to illustrate concepts) and other resources (books and articles). This course uses a mix of traditional and reverse pedagogy, where students have to work in teams on exercises and prepare a project to be presented to the class.

PRE-REQUISITES IN TERMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

If no prior knowledge or skills are required, students are strongly encouraged to regularly read international business press articles (Le Monde, Les Echos, Financial Times, etc.) as well as research-related reviews such as Harvard Business Review, Medium, The Conversation.

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