E-commerce Operations Management
Course description
This course provides students with current show cases how leading e-commerce startups and companies advance their operational performance through digitalization.
Target group
Students interested in designing, managing and advancing digitally enabled supply chains.
Target
In today’s business world, technology increasingly plays a major role in determining a company’s future competitiveness. In this course, we focus on 4 main topics that are critical for the success of omni-channel players: leadership, forward chain, backward chain and customer interaction. Cases and readings, mostly working papers under review or recently published articles in top managerial or academic journals, provide novel insights into the e-commerce operations of leading European retail, manufacturing or service companies. Students will be able to discuss these approaches with numerous guest speakers from industry and academia.
Theories
Newsvendor Problem, Risk Pooling, Optimization, Heuristics, Competitive Pricing, Machine Learning, Business / Retail Analytics, Design of Experiments.
Date | Time |
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Tuesday, 08.01.2019 | 08:00 - 11:15 |
Tuesday, 22.01.2019 | 08:00 - 11:15 |
Tuesday, 29.01.2019 | 08:00 - 11:15 |
Wednesday, 06.02.2019 | 08:00 - 11:15 |
Tuesday, 12.02.2019 | 08:00 - 11:15 |
Friday, 15.02.2019 | 11:30 - 13:00 |
Thursday, 21.02.2019 | 09:45 - 11:15 |