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Summary
Supply-chain
management within a firm is concerned with the flow of goods and services from
firms to consumers. The design of high-performance supply chains depends
decisively on the information available to the different parties. The available
information technologies, together with the incentives for the sharing of
information within and across firm boundaries, are of key importance for the
analysis and optimization of supply chains.
This
course provides an overview of the economic drivers and technological
possibilities for designing a successful supply-chain strategy, especially in
view of information flows.
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++NEWS RELEASE++
The Deloitte
OES Prize is back for the 10th
consecutive year!
The
2022 winning team was determined by a
jury featuring senior members of Deloitte
Consulting and Prof. Weber on
December 14:
·
Kareen FALLAHA / Mohamed HEDAYET
(“Loom Gelateria 1900:
Competitive Analysis and Performance Optimization”)
PAST
DELOITTE OES PRIZE WINNERS
·
2021:
Arsenii GAVRILENKO / Nils
HASSELMARK / Hugo PARENT-LEDUC
(“Co-Working Cafeteria: The Data-Driven
Transformation of Cafeteria Niki”)
·
2020: Manon
CAMOUS / Gabriel FEUERWERKER / Clément
HONSBERGER
(“Driving Pepper Jack through the
Coronavirus Crisis and Beyond”)
·
2019: Andres ENGELS / Máximo
JARA JARA / Maina
ORCHAMPT-MARESCHAL
(“Demand, Inventory and Information
Management at Mexicana Lausanne”)
· 2018:
Alizée BELAMARIC / Clément BARBERIS
(“Product Portfolio Rationalization,
Ordering Process Optimization and Information Management at La Brouette”)
· 2017:
Pierre DUSSAUX / Benjamin ZIMERAY
(“Arte Beauty & Wellness:
Leveraging Wasted Capacity through IT Solutions”)
· 2016:
Céline FISCHER / Valentin TERRAIL / Xiaoran YU
(“Takinoa
Restaurant at the Rolex Learning Center: Operations and Demand Analysis”)
· 2015:
Christophe DONZÉ / Niels PICHLER / Benjamin PREVIDOLI
(“Selecta on the EPFL Campus”)
· 2014:
Shubham BANSAL / Thomas GUIBENTIF / Marc SOLSONA
BERNET
(“Le Négoce: Survival Under Extreme
Conditions”)
· 2013:
Dimitri CORDENIER / Alexis DUBIL
(“GeoRoute at PostLogistics”)
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Contact Details
Operations,
Economics and Strategy (OES)
EPFL-CDM-ODY
3.01
Phone:
+41 21 693 01 41
E-Mail: thomas.weber@epfl.ch
EPFL-CDM-ODY 4.16
EPFL-CDM-ODY
3.16
E-Mail :
ilona.ball@epfl.ch
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Current Problem Sets & Solutions
·
Problem Set 1
(Due: Wed, Oct 5) – Solutions
·
Problem Set 2
(Due: Wed, Nov 16) – Solutions
·
Problem Set 3
(Due: Wed, Dec 21) – Solutions
Exams & Solutions
· Final Exam (2020)
– Solutions
· Final Exam (2021)
– Solutions
Useful Links & Resources
A.
General Resources
·
EPFL Library × information about the library
and useful starting point to find electronic resources available at EPFL
·
Nebis Catalogue
× here you can check EPFL’s and other Swiss
libraries’ holdings, and order books to the circulation desk
·
Inomics
× index of Economics conferences (quite
comprehensive, but still incomplete)
·
JSTOR × download top journal papers
in Business, Economics, Statistics; most recent years not available
·
Social Science Citation Index
× useful to forward-search references to key
papers that you identify: after searching the paper, go to its full record,
click on the number next to “Times Cited”, then on the following page click on
“Total”; the citation index sometimes also contains direct links to databases
with pdf-copies of the papers
· Social Science Research Network × large repository of current working papers in the social sciences
B.
Supply-Chain Management Resources
· CIO
·
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
· EBN