Today’s business is characterized by supply networks comprising different partners (e.g. suppliers, plants, distribution centers, retailers, 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 computerized production planning and control (PPC) systems which are embedded into comprehensive Enterprise Resource (ERP) systems. Over the recent years so-called Advanced Planning Systems (APS) 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
• Describe the limitations and ineffectiveness in PPC systems
• Outline the basic concepts in supply chain management
• Outline the concepts used in advanced planning
• Apply the quantitative techniques used in supply chain management
• Describe the structure and methodology used in commercial Advanced Planning Systems (APS)
• 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 Supply Chain Management
2. Advanced Planning Systems
3. Strategic Network Design
4. Demand Planning
5. Master Planning
6. Demand Fulfilment and Available-to-Promise
7. Production Planning and Scheduling
8. Transportation Planning 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 in logistics such as planning, scheduling and distribution, particularly in the context of quantitative modelling. Participants should ideally be familiar with elementary mathematical, Operations Research (OR) and statistical techniques. 20. september, 2017