AB-2-024

• Business administration 2013 (logistics) - International business logistics
• Business administration 2014 (logistics) - International business logistics
• Business administration 2015 (logistics) - International business logistics
• Business administration 2016 (logistics) - International business logistics
• Business administration 2017 (logistics) - International business logistics
• Business administration 2018 (logistics) - International business logistics
• Business administration 2019 - Logistics
• Business administration 2020 - Logistics
• Business administration 2021 - Logistics - advanced studies
• International business 2019 - Logistics
• International business 2020 - Logistics
• International business 2021 - Logistics - advanced studies

1 (2021-08-01 to 2021-10-24)

English

Compulsory

First

2

5 cr

The aim of this course is for the student to:
Understand the importance of purchasing and the
impact on the company?s profitability
Understand the concept of purchasing and Category
Management
Understand the purchasing process and its
different stages
Know some tools for assortment planning, inventory
control and how to estimate the demand of a
product
Understand the impact of purchasing decisions on
the sustainability of the company?s logistical
operations
Learn the tools and tactics in negotiations
according to different negotiation situations.

At the end of the course the student is expected
to:

Be able to conduct a purchasing process
Be familiar with tools how to increase the
profitability of a product category
Be familiar with tools how integrate
sustainability in the purchasing process
Understand the relationship between negotiations
and its effects on the purchasing process

The student works with separate purchasing tools
and will conduct a case study.

Introduction to logistics

Purchasing 2019-20

Bailey, Farmer, Jessop & Jones 2005, Purchasing
Principles and management, FT Prentice Hall.
Can be found on Perlego

Badenhorst-Weiss JA, Cilliers JO, Dlamini W, Ambe
IM, Purchasing and supply management 7

Additional litterature:
Ellengaard, C. 2006, Small company purchasing: A
research agenda. Journal of Purchasing & Supply
Management, Nr 12, page 272-283
Ellengaard, C. 2009, The purchasing orientation of
small company owners. Journal of Business &
Industrial Marketing, Nr 24, page 291-300
Van Weele, A.J. & Arbin, K. 2019. Inköp och Supply
Chain Management, Studentlitteratur AB
Van Weele, A.J & Arbin, K. 2018. Purchasing and
Supply Chain Management, Cengage Learning EMEA

• Lectures - 21 hours
• Individual- and group instruction - 12 hours
• Project- and production work/artistic activities - 67 hours
• Individual studies - 35 hours

• Total workload of the course: 135 hours
• Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
• Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Participation in tuition

Essays, reports, productions and portfolio

To pass the course the student should pass the
compulsory elements of the course and receive
at least 50 points of the maximum 100 points in
the course.
A group assignment including a complete
purchasing process (max 90 points)
An individual assignment (quiz) (max 10 points)

• Adlercreutz Erica
• Henriksson Robert

Adlercreutz Erica

https://arcada.itslearning.com/ External link

No limit (50 students enrolled)

12 months after course has ended

2021-08-09 to 2021-08-29

Date will be announced later - Reports and productions