Innovative Supply Chain Technologies
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 1 |
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 | |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Aims and objectives
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of innovative supply chain technologies both in theory and in practice.
2. Critically analyse and evaluate the role of technology in current and future supply chains.
3. Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of innovative supply chain techniques to organisational and business problems and identify possible opportunities.
4. Work collaboratively with a diverse range of people and act as a member and a leader of a team.Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Scheduled hours: Tutorials (12 x 2 hrs), online lecture (1 hr per week)
For all teaching and learning structures (both face to face and online), students are expected to spend an average of 150 hours per unit in total over the duration of the study period
This includes all:
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
Assessment
Content
• Robots and Cobots,
• Internet of Things,
• Artificial Intelligence,
• Chatbots
• Blockchain
• Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
• Industry 4.0
Study resources
- Reading materials.