Today’s business is characterized by supply networks comprising different partners (e.g. suppliers, distribution and retail centers, plants, customers).
Activities within supply networks have to be well coordinated in order to avoid excessive inventories, inefficient capacity utilization and poor customer service.
In most industrial companies operational production management is supported by computerizes production planning and control (PPC) systems which are
embedded into comprehensive Enterprise Resource (ERP) systems. Over the recent years so-called Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems have
emerged. Their major characteristics are the use of optimization techniques and the integration into comprehensive supply chain management concepts. En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:

• Have an overview of the scope of Production planning and Control (PPC) systems within Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
• Structure ERP and PPC systems into its their major building blocks
• Reveal the limitations and ineffectiveness in PPC systems
• Outline the basic concepts in supply chain management
• Know the concepts used in advanced planning
• Apply the quantitative techniques used in supply chain management
• Understand the structure and methodology used in commercial Advanced Planning Systems (APS) such as SAP APO
• Assess the applicability of APS in different types of industries
• Use and develop advanced planning methodology for solving real-life problems in strategic network design, demand planning, supply network planning, production planning and detailed scheduling, available-to-promise, and transportation

1. Fundamentals of Production Planning and Control Systems
2. Introduction to Supply Chain Management
3. Advanced Planning Systems
4. Strategic Network Design
5. Demand Planning
6. Supply Network Planning
7. Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling
8. Available-to-Promise
9. Deployment and Transportation Course notes
Scientific journals
Chopra, S., Meindl, P. (2007). Supply chain management: Strategy, planning, and operation. 4th ed., Upper Saddle River, N.J., Pearson Prentice Hall, ISBN:
0-13-173042-8
Stadtler, H., Kilger, C. (eds.) (2008). Supply chain management and advanced planning. 4th ed., Berlin: Springer, ISBN: 978-3-540-74511-2 It is expected that participants have an interest in practical problems of production planning, scheduling and logistics, and the quantitative modelling of these
problems. Participants should be familiar with basic Operations Research (OR) techniques. Students of the master programme Engineering Management
(Planlægning, Innovation og Ledelse) and (Transport og Logistik) have priority access to this course 01. november, 2016