https://studiegids.vu.nl/en/courses/2025-2026/E_TSCM_DMSCIn today's highly competitive markets supply chain managers are challenged to design, plan and control logistics processes at company and supply chain level. Regardless of whether their supply chain is aiming for e.g. higher responsiveness, improved cost efficiency or supply chain vulnerability, the resulting decision problems tend to be complex and require quantitative analysis. Moreover, they often need to be addressed under time pressure without access to dedicated software tools. This course wants to teach students how to use and build models to (i) analyze real-life company data, (ii) develop optimization models, (iii) report results and formulate recommendations to improve supply chain performance.In this course you learn a variety of methods for analyzing, modelling and improving logistics processes in supply chains. To make sure that you can apply these skills in practice we will use widely available software. Important topics that we are going to address are data processing and optimization. Students will be challenged to solve exercises and case studies by designing appropriate models.Lectures. knowledge clips, and (computer) tutorialsGroup assignment Individual quizzes Individual examTo be announced on CanvasThe course is designed for master students in Transport and Supply Chain Management. Students not following the MSc TSCM programme are kindly requested to contact the course coordinator prior to enrollment.The course is designed for master students in Transport and Supply Chain Management. Students not following the TSCM master are kindly requested to contact the course coordinator prior to enrollment.