Purchasing and Supply Management

We implement a flipped classroom concept for this course.

The flipped classroom concept is an innovative teaching approach in which traditional teaching activities are reversed. Instead of teaching content in frontal lectures, students learn it independently and at their own pace using digital media, literature and interactive applications at home. To this end, students receive learning materials such as videos or texts before the classroom session, which they work through independently at home. We use the time spent on site to deepen understanding and apply the content learned, e.g. through joint analyses, discussions, practical examples and in-depth exercises.

The flipped classroom concept offers great potential for improving the learning process and making it more active. This method promotes active learning and interactive collaboration in the course. The time on site is then used to deepen the knowledge in such a way that the time on site and in the group is used sensibly. In doing so, we promote a deeper understanding and the application of knowledge necessary for future professional practice.

Deepening purchasing and supply management knowledge

In the course of an exciting case study accompanying the lecture, you will deepen your knowledge by applying it to current issues in a practical way.

Students will be able to design sustainable purchasing by...

• understanding traditional purchasing processes and applying strategies in purchasing,
• assessing the potential and challenges of digital technologies in procurement,
• understanding the need for organizational adjustments in procurement with regard to Industry 4.0 and disruptive events
• assess the contribution of procurement to the company and the supply chain

to be able to align purchasing with current environmental influences and classify the relevance of purchasing in the company.

Please note that participation in the written examination requires prior successful participation in the coursework. The details of the scope and form will be announced by the lecturer at the beginning of the course in accordance with examination regulations §8 para. 13 and 14.

In line with the LFO work culture, we strive to continuously improve teaching for this and all our LFO courses, which enables student-centered, application- and practice-oriented skills development through innovative and active teaching formats. Therefore, innovative didactic methods such as flipped classroom and case studies are used to achieve the learning objectives in this course and supplemented by elements of digital teaching in the context of, for example, preparation materials that are regularly made available online.