2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5975M Designing Sustainable Supply Chains

15 creditsClass Size: 72

Module manager: Chee Wong
Email: c.y.wong@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module provides an understanding of the background context to sustainability, alongside models (e.g. TBL) which challenge the way we might address sustainability issues. Different perspectives are explored through cases exploring supply chains and use of IT, challenging the way in which students visualise and calculate issues such as the carbon footprints of each. Through the use of interactive seminars, students will apply models of sustainability and develop their skills in exploring and designing more sustainably-savvy organisations.

Objectives

To provide students with an understanding of the background context of sustainability, the core problems, models to better understand sustainability in business, operations and supply chain management and the opportunity to apply those models. Through this application, students will develop their own organisational-level solutions to sustainability and better understand how to extend this in the future across organisations, supply chains and the product lifecycle.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Analyse the strategic role of sustainability, particularly in businesses with global supply chains.
2. Evaluate the economic, environmental and social impact of operations and supply chains.
3. a) Evaluate and analyse complex operations and supply chain environments; b) relate the implications of strategic change to those environments to the sustainability agenda.
4. Synthesise research on, and evaluate, the design and development of an operations and supply chain strategy which brings market requirements, (global) operations / supply chains and sustainability together.

Syllabus

Introduction / context setting

- Introduction- SDGs
- Sustainability framework e.g. TBL

Problems / opportunities:
- Sustainability in garment and / or automotive sectors - problems and solutions (such as circularity).

Tools:
- Life cycle analysis & designing for sustainability (e.g. garment sector)

Solutions:
- Circular Economy including waste (e.g. food waste)
- Role of technology
- Ethics & social sustainability
- Sustainability at National/International level

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	11	2.00	22.00
Seminars	4	2.00	8.00
Private study hours			120.00
Total Contact hours			30.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

A variety of activities such as additional reading, core text, case studies, news articles and podcasts will be shared with students to provide in-depth understanding and preparing for assessments.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Seminar(s) dedicated to practical student work, assessed in the seminar(s). Feedback on the individual report outline proposal, submitted week 7.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	3000 words	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The resit for this module will be 100% by 3,000 word report.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 16/08/2024 11:44:42

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