Advanced Seminar Operations & Supply Chain Management: Advances in Retail Management

What it is about

The Advanced Seminar covers current research topics in Service Operations and Supply Chain Management with a focus on Retail Management (e.g., Omni-Channel, Online Retail). You will learn to recognize strategic and operational connections between SCM, Marketing and Service and to apply empirical as well as mathematical methods for analysis and modeling. In the end you will be able to address research questions, conduct numerical studies and present results in writing and orally.

What you will be able to do

• read and understand current research contributions
• follow interesting research questions
• conduct literature study, numerical study and/or implementation
• structure and organize research methods and results
• write a seminar paper
• present and discuss research results

What the module consists of

• EinführungsveranstaltungIntroduction of the topic, explanation of available seminar topics and relevant literature
• Selbstständige BearbeitungIndependent literature research, modeling, programming and analysis under supervision
• Präsentation/DiskussionPresentation and defense of the seminar paper before the group

Teaching method

• Vorlesung/EinführungExplanation of the topic and presentation of the literature as a basis for the work
• Betreutes SelbststudiumIndependent development of the topics with regular supervision and submission of interim progress
• Präsentation und DiskussionTraining of presentation, moderating and discussion skills