2012/2013  KAN-CM_T90  Management of Maritime Operations within Supply Chains

English Title

Management of Maritime Operations within Supply Chains

Course information
Language	English
Exam ECTS	7.5 ECTS
Type	Elective
Level	Full Degree Master
Duration	One Semester
Course period	Autumn Changes in course schedule may occur Tuesday 08.00-10.35, week 36,37,39,43,45,46 Thursday 08.00-10.35, week 39,41,43,45,46
Time Table	Please see course schedule at e-Campus
Study board	Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course coordinator
Günter Prockl - Department of Operations Management
Administrative contact Bente Kildemose Nielsen - bkn.om@cbs.dk
Main Category of the Course
Supply Chain Management and Logistics Corporate and Business Strategy
Last updated on 19-03-2013

Learning objectives

Upon course completion, the individual student should be able to demonstrate knowledge on the meaning of maritime operations within global supply chains and the related management challenges. They are able to analyze specific business models and related functions, activities. The goals of this course in relation to what the students will achieve on completion are that students: know the key elements of the basic systems for providing logistics services on the water, but also in combination to ports, the street, and rail tracks for the Hinterland connection can analyze the role of different actors within such service supply chains and identify their limitations and key business challenges can compose and compare appropriate generic business models for logistics services in the maritime context are able to use the related terminology in developing convincing arguments apply concepts and theories to answer specific questions referring to shipping and identify and argument for the potentials of innovative logistics concepts applied

Prerequisite

This course can be followed by master level and by exchange students

Examination

Individual project exam, 15 A4-pages, student is not entitled to supervision

Individual project exam, 15 A4-pages, student is not entitled to supervision: Type of test Home Assignment Marking scale 7-step scale Second examiner No second examiner Exam period Autumn Term, Handing in week 50 Aids Please, see the detailed regulations below Duration Please, see the detailed regulations below

Examination

Individual project exam, 15 A4-pages, student is not entitled to supervision

Course content

The course specializes into specific management challenges, roles, and service offerings from the view point of the single companies that are providing logistics and transportation services related to maritime operations within supply chains. The course is based on a combination of theoretical approaches with industry facts to illustrate developments and key management challenges in a more applied context.   As conceptual platform, elements from modern global supply chain management, operations and service theory and as well practical challenges of logistics and service operations are introduced and combined in a generic business model approach for transportation and logistics service providers. This business model view - on the management challenges of single actors that are however understood as part of a broader supply chain – is further used as basic framework for analysis and providing the structure throughout the course.   As object of the analysis, the focus is set on the maritime transportation industry. However the course also touches relevant aspects with respect to other actors and to some extent also to other modes of transportation, for instance when it comes to the topic of integrating shipping and the related flows and processes in the Hinterland operation.   Summarizing some of the central issues of the course: A market based view toward international logistics flows and the specific challenges and opportunities for a positioning of shippers and related actors within international supply chains Cost drivers and management, Quality, Capacity and in total the value propositions within the shipping operations A resource based view on the creation of the service architectures and the related challenges and solutions for specific services, especially the management of the physical network structures Generic elements, standard problems and standard solutions related to the definition of  business models for shippers and related actors Key issues of logistics services like, network structure, vertical and horizontal chain integration etc. Integration of different modes of transportation into innovative transportation chains Supporting technologies, such as RFID and SCEM in transportation Complementary discussions on sustainability and security in international transportation chains   In total this provides a sound understanding of the specific systems related to transportation based on ships but provides as well some more generic and global understanding of key management issues regarding logistics services in total.

Teaching methods

The teaching of this course will be based on a variety of learning methods including dialogue lectures, case discussions, in-class assignments and when appropriate guest speakers from the industry.

Further Information

Students learn to understand the business models of logistics service providers of the maritime sector and related key management challenges. In total such a knowledge might be useful for employment in shipping companies but also in other logistics service companies and also some international manufacturers and retailers that hire such services.

Expected literature

Reference book –   Bardi/Coyle/Novack: Management of Transportation, Thomson, International Student Edition, 2006.     Articles –   Heideloff, Christel; Pawlik, Thomas: Handbook of Container Shipping Management, in: Volume 2: Management Issues in Container Shipping, Bremen 2008. Reader with Articles   Baird, Alfred: Logistics Strategy in  Management in Ocean Container Shipping, in: Heideloff, Christel; Pawlik, Thomas: Handbook of Container Shipping Management, Volume 1, Bremen 2006, S. 111-138. Carbone, Valentina; De Martino, Marcella: The changing role of ports in supply-chain management: an empirical analysis, in: Maritime Policy & Management, 30(2003)4, pp. 305-320. Chapman, Ross L.; Soosay, Claudine; Kandampully, Jay: Innovation in logistic services and the new business model, in: International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 33(2003)33, pp. 630-650. Corbett, James;  Winebrake, James; Green, Erin;  Kasibhatla,  Prasad;  Eyring, Veronika;  Lauer, Axel: Mortality from Ship Emissions: A Global Assessment, in: Environmental Science & Technology, 41(2007)24, S. 8512-8518. Cullinane, Kevin; Yuhong Wang: A capacity-based measure of container port accessibility, in: International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications, 12(2009)2, S. 103-117. Franc, Pierre; Van der Horst, Martijn: Understanding hinterland service integration by shipping lines and terminal operators: a theoretical and empirical analysis, in: Journal of Transport Geography, 18 (2010), S. 557-566. Fremont, A.: Global maritime networks. The case of Maersk, in: Journal of Transport Geography, 15(2007), S. 432-442. Gadhia, H.; Kotzab, H.; Prockl, G.: Levels of internationalization in the container shipping industry: an assessment of the port networks of the large container shipping companies, in: Journal of Transport Geography, 19 (2011), S. 1431-1442. Hesse, Markus; Rodrigue, Jean-Paul: The transport geography of logistics and freight distribution, in: Journal of Transport Geography, (2004)12, pp. 171-184. Hoffmann, Jan: Liner Shipping Connectivity, in: http://www.escwa.org.lb/arabic/wto/meetings/6_7nov06/Background papers/Liner Shipping Connectivity.doc, 12.09.07, S. 1-8. Imai, Akio; Shintanib, Koichi; Papadimitriouc, Stratos: Multi-port vs. Hub-and-Spoke port calls by containerships, in: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 45(2009)5, S. 740-757. Jara-Diaz, Sergio; Basso, Leonardo: Transport cost functions, network expansion and economies of scope, in: Transportation Research, Part E 39(2003), pp. 271-288. Johnson, Mark; Christiansen, Clayton; Kagermann, Henning: Reinventing your Business Model, in: Harvard Business Review, 86(2008)12, pp. 50-59. Laird, James; Nellthorp, John; Mackie, Peter: Network effects and total economic impact in transport appraisal, in: Transport Policy, 12(2005), pp. 537-544. Lagoudis, I.; Lalwani, C.; Naim, M.: A Generic Systems Model for Ocean Shipping Companies in the Bulk Sector, in: Transportation Journal, 43(2004)1, S. 56-76. Lam, Jasmine S.; Yap, Wei Yim; Cullinane, Kevin: Structure, Conduct and Performance on the Major Liner Shipping Routes, in: Maritime Policy & Management, 34(2007)4, S. 359-381. Lemoine, W.; Danaes, Lars: Globalisation strategies and business organisation of a network of logistics service providers, in: International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 33(2003)3, S. 209-229. Levitt, Theodore: Marketing myopia, in: Harvard Business Review, (2004) July-August Reprint from 1960, pp. 138-149. Levitt, Theodore: The industrialization of service, in: Harvard Business Manager, 1976 September-October, pp. 63-74. Lim, Pei-Xuam; Das, Shobha: Entry in the global liner shipping industry: a population ecology study, 1996-2006, in: Maritime Policy & Management, 36(2009)3, S. 197-213. Notteboom, Theo E.; Rodrigue, Jean-Paul:Containerisation, Box Logistics and Global Supply Chains: The Integration of Ports and Liner Shipping Networks, in: Maritime Economics & Logistics, 10(2008), S. 152-174. Notteboom, Theo: Container Shipping And Ports: An Overview, in: Review of Network Economics, 3(2004)2, S. 86-106. Notteboom, Theo; Merckx, Filip: Freight integration in liner shipping: A strategy serving global production networks, in: Growth and Change, 37(2006)4, pp. 550-569. Prockl, Günter; Hoffmann, Annette: Economies in Intermodal Supply Chains, in: The University of Hong Kong (Hrsg.): Logistics Strategies and Technologies for Global Business. Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Hong Kong   5.-7. Januar 2006, CD-ROM, paper number 211. , S. 1-8. Rodrigue, Jean-Paul: The Thruport concept and transmodal rail freight distribution in North America, in: Journal of Transport Geography, 16(2008), S. 233-246. Ryoo, D. K.; Thanopoulou, H. A..: Liner alliances in the globalization era: a strategic tool for Asian container carriers, in: Maritime Policy & Management,, 26(1999)4, S. 349-367. Stalk, George: The threat of global gridlock, in: Harvard Business Review, (2009)3, S. 126-129. Sys, Christa; Blauwens, Gust; Omey, Eddy; Van de Voorde, Eddy; Witlox, Frank: In Search of the Link between Ship Size and Operations, in: Transportation Planning and Technology, 31(2008)4, S. 435-463. Tongzon, Jose L.; Sawant, Lavina: Port choice in a competitive environment: from the shipping lines' perspective, in: Applied Economics, 39(2007)4, S. 477-492. Trip, Jacob; Bontekoning, Yvonne: Integration of small freight flows in the intermodal transport system, in: Journal of Transport Geography, 10(2002), S. 221-229