Seminar: Industrial Excellence in an Uncertain World

This literature seminar focuses on “hot topics” in Production and Service Operations Management. Topics covered include, among others,

- Sustainability

• Food Supply Chains
• Returns Management in Ecommerce
• Secondary Markets in Fashion

- Global Supply Chain Design Strategies

• Hedging Tariff Risk – Likelihood, level and duration
• Managing mass-customization in manufacturing
• Production sourcing decisions – Is there reshoring of manufacturing?

- Digitalization of Supply Chains

• Distributed Ledger Technology / Blockchain
• Industry 4.0
• Robotic process automation

Students have the choice to focus on the literature only or to include one illustrative industry application (based on interviews with company experts). The latter can lead to writing a case study and teaching note about that company.

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