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• Louise Bildsten – Programme Director and Senior Lecturer at the Division of Engineering Logistics
• Joakim Kembro – Associate Professor at the Division of Engineering Logistics
• Jan Olhager – Professor at the Division of Engineering Logistics
• Johan Marklund –  Professor at the Division of Production Management
• Ebba Eriksson – Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Engineering Logistics
• Andreas Norrman – Professor at the Division of Engineering Logistics
• Henrik Pålsson – Professor at the Division of Packaging Logistics
• Dag Näslund – Senior Lecturer at the Division of Engineering Logistics
• Fredrik Olsson, Senior lecturer at the Division of Production Management
• Danja R. Sonntag – Senior Lecturer at the Division of Production Management

Louise Bildsten – Programme Director and Senior Lecturer at the Division of Engineering Logistics

"I teach courses in Fundamentals of Logistics and Operations management as well as Industrial Purchasing.

The course Fundamentals of Logistics and Operations Management (MTTF25) starts in the first semester when you arrive. It will provide a basic understanding of logistics and operations management and includes a taste of all the coming courses in the programme such as purchasing, quality, forecasting, inventory and production planning.

Industrial Purchasing (MTTN75) will start right after the finish of Fundamentals of Logistics and Operations Management. In the industrial purchasing course, you will learn the purchasing process, including specification of the product/service, how to best select your supplier, negotiation and contracting, and receiving and following up the purchase order. Moreover, the course provides knowledge on how to maintain and develop relationships with suppliers. Many students see this course as one of the most useful courses when working in industry after their studies."

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Joakim Kembro – Associate Professor at the Division of Engineering Logistics

"I teach the course Warehousing & Materials Handling (MTTN25). The course is a great start to the Master's. First, the students learn both the fundamentals and the latest trends and research on warehousing and materials handling. This includes technology development, with automated systems, robots, digitalization, and artificial intelligence as well as sustainability and the role of warehousing for circular flows. Second, the students work on a real industry project throughout the course. This includes visits to warehouses in the region, multiple guest lectures with warehouse experts, and interactive case seminars. The casework also includes extensive data analysis and valuable experience in project management and effective team coordination."

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Jan Olhager – Professor at the Division of Engineering Logistics 

"I teach the course called Project Management and Research Methodologies in Supply Chain Management (MTTN85). The course prepares the students for conducting the Master’s thesis. It deals with the key aspects of managing a project to provide the students with tools and perspectives to be able to carry out a successful Master’s thesis. It also discusses the characteristics of different research methodologies, and how to select an appropriate research methodology with respect to the topic or problem at hand."

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Johan Marklund –  Professor at the Division of Production Management

"My teaching experience includes various courses in Operations Research, Production and Inventory Management, Quality Control, Managerial economics, Business administration, Accounting, Simulation Modeling, and Business Process Design. In the LSCM Master's programme, I am responsible for three courses: Management of Production and Inventory systems (MION01), Simulation of industrial processes and logistics systems (MION40), and Quality Management (MION50). Although the topics are quite different, a common theme is the use of quantitative methods for improved decision-making in supply chains. Today, this is often referred to as business and/or supply chain analytics."

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Ebba Eriksson – Postdoctoral fellow at the Division of the Engineering Logistics

"I teach the course in International Physical Distribution (MTTN70). The course deals with the key aspects of designing, planning and managing a global distribution system. The course includes the fundamentals of physical distribution, presents key models and theories, and discusses important systematic challenges connected to risk, sustainability, and trade. During the course, you will together with a group design and plan a global physical distribution system for a fictive company. This will require a combination of quantitative modelling and qualitative analysis."

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Andreas Norrman – Professor at the Division of Engineering Logistics

"In the LSCM Master's programme, I am responsible for the capstone course Supply chain management (MTTN80). This important course makes you understand what SCM is really about, in the sense of inter-organisational issues, problems and antidotes. As a capstone course, it will integrate your knowledge and tools from most other courses and challenge you to apply this, in teams, by solving cross-functional and inter-organisational trade-offs. To be successful you have to leave functional siloes of e.g. Purchasing, Operations, Planning, and Sales and see the bigger picture. Much of the learning comes from different business games, supply chain simulations and cases that give students hands-on experiences to reflect on. Theoretically, the course revolves around topics like supply chain strategy, performance measurement, incentive alignment, information sharing, collaboration, risk management, S&OP and change. Students love the games and how they motivate them to go the extra mile of reading, understanding and reflecting on theories – and having fun."

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Henrik Pålsson – Professor at the Division of Packaging Logistics

"Packaging logistics (MTTN35) is a unique course on the subject, which offers a scientific perspective on the complexity of choosing packaging systems that fulfil logistical, environmental and commercial requirements from all stakeholders in a supply chain. Students learn to apply research-based tools and frameworks to analyse and prioritise these requirements in a structured way. The course gives students knowledge and skills in analysing, evaluating, designing and selecting packaging systems that balance the needs and requirements of the various stakeholders in a supply chain. A consistent theme in the course is that students learn how packaging contributes to sustainable supply chains. The course content is taught with research-based lectures and lectures by experts at leading companies in the field, project-based learning with real-world examples, seminars, study cases, study visits and software analyses."

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Dag Näslund – Senior Lecturer at the Division of Engineering Logistics 

"In the Business process management course (MTTN60), we take both a historical and a recent perspective on this highly relevant and applied topic. From a teaching perspective, the course is very interactive with games, cases, seminars, a research project as well as interactive lectures and discussions. By understanding the history and fundamentals, students can critically analyse recent trends and research business process management. This includes understanding problems with the traditional functional silo approach, and the potential benefits, of a cross-functional process-oriented approach. Students learn about process mapping, process analysis and change and process-based measurements as well as people issues and change management.  In the research project, structured as group work with deadlines throughout the course, students dissect a popular change method (e.g. goals, approaches, tools, measurements, success rates, critical success factors). Thus, students learn about how organisations work (and fail) to improve efficiency and/or effectiveness, they learn about change management, how to do research and get a valuable experience in project management and collaboration in teams."

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Fredrik Olsson – Senior lecturer at the Division of Production Management

"My teaching experience includes courses in Mathematics, Probability theory, Statistics, Design of Experiments, Operations Research, Production and Inventory Management, Quality, and Simulation Modeling. In the LSCM Master's programme. I am responsible for the course: Production and Inventory Control (MIOF10). This course deals with quantitative methods for managing and controlling production and inventory systems. The methods developed in the course are based on theory and concepts from probability theory, optimisation theory and managerial economics. One important aspect of the course is to develop skills in how to model and analyse a real-life inventory and production control problem. For example, how should reorder points and batch quantities be chosen such that minimum costs are attained."

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Danja R. Sonntag – Senior Lecturer at the Division of Production Management

"I teach the course called Decision Analytics (MION46). The course addresses how decisions should be made under risk. The scope ranges from supply chain management to litigation and bidding strategies to investment planning. In terms of logistics and supply chain management, such decisions under risk range from choosing between different suppliers with varying reliability, to choosing between transportation modes with varying lead times and lead time uncertainties, to making production decisions when demand is uncertain. We use a state-of-the-art software package that is used by many well-known companies to implement and analyse different types of decision problems. The course aims to provide students with comprehensive knowledge and understanding of various concepts, tools, and practices for decision-making under risk, both from a theoretical and applied perspective."

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