Global Supply Chain Management

• Terms of delivery: Incoterms®
• Instruments of payments
• Payment of short term transactions
• Documents in international trade
• Financing of international transactions

• Legal and Illegal Advertising
• Company Structures
• Intellectual Property Rights: Trademarks, Design Rights, Patents and Copyright
• International Sales Contracts
• Other contracts: Licensing and Franchising, Agents and Distributors
• Competition Law
• General Data Protection Regulation (including Consumer Protection)

The advancement of technology and AI, climate crisis and Covid-19 have created an unpredictable and uncertain environment across business industries and society. Our VUCA world calls for a new approach to drive innovation and change, for organisations to remain competitive and relevant.

This course will help you gain insights about the importance of innovation today. We will focus on the following areas:

• Learning about change management and organisational change theories, tools and techniques
• Exploring the stages of the change process and the impact of change on the business environment
• Understanding the principles of Lean Change Management
• Analysing change in context: reasons of failure of no longer existing companies and companies being threatened now
• Discussing industry disruptions, megatrends, cross-industry evolutions and innovation principles & themes that companies need to stay relevant in the current environment and ensure the ongoing success of change
• Introducing Innovation Strategy frameworks for long-term relevance and success
• Applying and evaluating Innovation Strategy tools to set up a portfolio of innovative ideas for different business cases

An introduction to SCM

• SC Forecasting
• SC Inventory management
• SC Procurement
• SC operations (incl MRP & MPS)
• SC strategy & planning (S&OP, MRP2 and IBP)
• SC consolidated exercise in Excel (inventory, forecast, mrp)
• SC sustainability and reverse logistics
• SC collaboration & resilience
• SC technology & innovation
• SC performance mgmt & scenario planning
• SC warehousing
• In depth review different roles in SCM: sales&marketing, logistics, manufacturing, purchasing & finance

Case

• Sales & Operations Planning case with challenges (questions) on: sales&marketing, finance, purchasing, operations and logistics

Course content:

• Recap introduction transportation year1 (modes…)
• Global vs local transportation
• Transportation process
• Transportation roles&responsibilities
• Global rules & regulations, compliance
• Transport documents
• Transport cost insight (fixed, variable, price settings…)
• Sustainable transportation incl carbon footprint calculation
• New technologies in transport mgmt.
• E-commerce, last mile, uberisation
• Disruption, pandemic

Case content:

• Evaluate the different transportation modes based on distance, cost, sustainability, risk, service... and make a proposal you will report in a paper and presentation.

• Introduction to maritime and port logistics
• Cargoes and ships
• Shipping lines
• Ports and terminals

• Relevant macroeconomics, politics and institutions
• Economic and political factors that affect doing business internationally
• Effects of cultural differences on global business: social aspects, formal and informal protocol, management practices, business traditions, values, negotiations, ...
• US-China trade relations and the repercussions for the EU
• Corporate life

The value of networking nor lobbying can be overestimated in today’s world. Yet both are often seen as vague concepts and blurry activities. The course will introduce you to the world of professional and personal networking and lobbying.

• Networking defined
• How to make it relevant for you
• Networking barriers and how to overcome them
• LinkedIn, powertool for networking
• Intro on lobbying, zooming in on the EU
• Ethics & transparency in networking and lobbying

• Part One: Sales perspective
• Part Two: Sales practice
• Part Three: Sales environment
• Part Four: Sales management

• Storytelling and content marketing
• Storytelling and social media context
• Mindset and basic requirements for storytellers
• The function and the elements of a story
• Storycrafting versus story delivery
• CAST model as a basis for solid storytelling
• Research-crafting-editing as a process

No previous knowledge or credits required. However, this course is theoretically and practically demanding; deep engagement with the course materials and assignment is a must.

Non-exhaustive list of topics:

• Introduction to AI
• Prompt engeneering
• Different AI models and tools in practice
• AI business opportunities
• Ethical considerations and legal framework

This course will help you to develop your skills in Dutch, the language spoken in the Netherlands and in Flanders. The learning objective is to reach level A1 of the CEFR for languages: understand and use familiar everyday basic phrases, introduce yourself and others, interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help. However, students who are fluent in German tend to learn Dutch very fast and can reach an A2 level in one semester and will have the chance to do so. You’ll learn about the culture of Antwerp and Belgium, you’ll  recognize grammatical structures (A1) and use them (A2), you’ll develop your vocabulary, listening and speaking skills and you can choose between a more interactive and fun approach or a more classical approach focusing on grammar and vocabulary.