Business Success Through IT-Supported Supply Chains
What’s it all about? As a student in the “Information Systems & Supply Chains” specialization, you’ll explore digital transformation and focus on the interplay between IT and organizational structures, using internal and inter-organizational communication processes as examples. You’ll learn how internal and inter-organizational information management relates to supply chain planning (procurement, production, and logistics planning) as well as supply chain management. Ultimately, you will learn to independently conceive, design, and implement digital transformation through IT and SCM projects.
What is being researched? The participating departments conduct research in the broad field of digital transformation, including intelligent information and planning systems, topics in artificial intelligence such as machine learning and predictive analytics, and problem-specific optimization models and methods. The use of information and communication technologies is examined to optimize the planning and management of supply chains and to integrate information systems. In this context, data management and modeling techniques play a fundamental role. Due to the extensive collaboration with companies, negotiation management and communication theories are also applied and further developed. The implementation of these research topics in the field of application-oriented project management is also examined.
Why should you choose this specialization? Digital transformation is in full swing, but it has by no means reached all areas of the economy and society. Thus, this field in itself represents one of the major issues of the future. The importance of stable, functioning supply chains became particularly clear during the pandemic, but has since increased rather than decreased. Both the business sector and policymakers have responded by changing regulatory frameworks, redesigning existing implementations, or establishing new ones.
This has led to an even greater demand for appropriately trained employees. Not only are IT skills expected, but the combination of IT and subject-matter expertise is in particularly high demand. As a graduate of the Information Systems & Supply Chains specialization, this is precisely what sets you apart. To prepare you optimally for this, project-based seminars are held regularly. In these seminars, you work with real-world clients from the business world to examine current issues using scientific methods and develop potential solutions for the clients in the form of concepts as well as functional prototypes.
