Personnel and Organisation

Institute for Supply Chain and Operations Management

Field of Competence: Personnel Development / Organisational Structure

Understanding

The successful implementation of strategic decisions in supply chain and operations management requires an occasional change within the personnel and organisational framework. So, digitisation and internationalisation strategies make not only new and clear allocations of tasks necessary, but employees also must be prepared for the corresponding challenges. Competence profiles are changing, and new qualifications have to be acquired to design change processes successfully.

Courses

  • (Workshop) Evaluation of strategy conforming organisational forms
  • Workshop to develop a roadmap for the design of organisational change processes
  • Workshop to develop qualification concepts for purchasing

Experience

  • Evaluation of alternative organisational concepts (central/decentral/hybrid) for purchasing in medium-sized production companies
  • Development of qualification measures for purchasing

Selected theses

  • Design of procurement and necessary organisational conditions for the production of xxx in China for the Chinese market
  • Effects of a lead buyer concept on transaction costs for the allocation of work contracts
  • Introduction of a product group management as preparation to implement a global lead buyer concept with the aim of achieving a material cost saving
  • Analysis of process organisation with the aim of process optimisation in the department xxx of … GmbH
  • Global Sourcing – methodical support and organisational implementation
  • Maverick Buying – Cause analysis and resulting action recommendations using the example of … GmbH & Co. KG

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