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Chair of Supply Chain Management

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Digital Transformation of Value Creation Systems (SCM-M-07)

Type: Seminar-like tuition
Type of examination: written exam, 60 min.
ECTS: 6
Cycle: winter term
Language: English

Lecturer

Prof. Dr. Alexander Pflaum

Requirements

none

Content

With increasing digitalization, industrial companies and cross-company value creation systems are changing fundamentally. The course aims to create an understanding of the data-driven company on the one hand and the process of digital transformation on the other. The change from the traditional product-oriented to the data- and service-oriented company is presented and explained for different key dimensions. A tool for measuring the digital maturity of a given company is developed and applied in an accompanying case study. At the end of the course, students should be able to assess companies in the manufacturing industry in particular with regard to the degree of digitalization and develop strategies for the further transformation process. In addition to the company itself, the overarching and cross-company value creation system is at the forefront of the considerations.

Essential topics comprise:

  • Theoretical framework for the transformation of traditional product-oriented into data- and service-oriented companies
  • Explanation of the digital transformation reference process
  • Overview of the key dimensions of digital transformation
  • Discussion of digital transformation using an example from the mechanical and plant engineering industry
  • Effects of digital transformation on a company's strategy and product and service offerings
  • Basic technologies of digital transformation and effects on the architecture of operational information systems
  • Changes in the structural and process organization
  • Expansion of traditional product-oriented supply chains into data- and service-oriented business ecosystems
  • Changes in the area of human resources and the corporate and innovation culture
  • Integration of the different aspects into a maturity model and application of this model based for a practical example
  • Guest lecture on the topic of digital transformation from an industrial company representative; the company will be named during the semester

Note

This information is indicative only and subject to change.

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