„Digital skills for future Supply Chain Management 4.0 (DIGSCM 4.0)“ Erasmus Project

Project Title

„Digital skills for future Supply Chain Management 4.0 (DIGSCM 4.0)“

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Context/Background
The fast development of digitalisation, Industry 4.0 tools and working practices have had a significant impact on the performance of Supply Chain in recent years, and this will continue in the
future. Digitalization has the potential to support contact-free operations in HEI-s and business companies, which have crucial importance under restrictions caused by COVID-19 or climate change conditions.

Objectives
To benefit, it is vital to improving the curricula and in-service training process of Supply Chain towards digitalisation. The education of new graduates will give them
the readiness to work in a digitally supported operational environment for all fields of Supply Chains.
The project also develops remote international teaching and learning environment, piloted in partner HEI-s.

Number and Profile of Participants:
TTK University of Applied Science – TTK
Vytautas Magnus University – VMU
REZEKNES TEHNOLOGIJU AKADEMIJA – RTA
TTK will cover procurement, RTA manufacturing and VMU logistics sector competencies.

IO 1 Activities.
Research design and methodology, interview questions and instructions, will be prepared by VMU.
Each partner will execute literature analysis as well as interviews by preparing national reports of findings.
Each university will collect at least 20 interviewees from at least 15 enterprises. The interviewees include managers, human resource managers, engineers and technicians, skilled workers. The
questions of interviews are grouped around 3 main topics:
1) implications of the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for the technological, ergonomic, organisational and ethical changes of the work processes;
2) implications of the work process changes brought by the 4IR for the competence needs;
3) possibilities of competence development in the enterprises, VET and higher education establishments in the conditions of the 4IR.

IO 2 Activities.
To realise the over whole structure and complexity of Supply Chain DSCM 4.0 module will be supported by AS-IS Business Processes Templates (BPT). Partner HEIs will develop BPT accordingly to the specific needs of organisations:
To demonstrate processes digitalisation by applying 4IR tools partner universities teachers and students will develop TO-BE BPT.
Partner universities will develop the practical case study materials by using common Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP), simulation and analysis tools during formal learning. For example, the materials procured by TTK students will be available in common ERP systems as components for RTA students. The materials and finished items will be delivered through ERP orders by VMU.

IO3 Activities
Each university is responsible for the development of two introductory-level courses 3ECTS and three advanced level courses, supported by TO-BE business processes. Partners will jointly develop fifteen 3ECTS e-courses of DSCM 4.0 module with expectations of the labour market in the context of full digitalisation of management and operating supply Chains. Each course will have lecturers from each partner university and will be integrated into existing curriculums.
National versions for partner countries will be developed by partner universities.

Methodology
Analysis of the implications of the 4IR for the work processes of retail trade, logistics and manufacturing consist of 2 main stages. In the first stage, there will be analysed existing
literature, research reports and strategic documents containing information about the implications of the 4IR for the different work processes in the above-mentioned sectors. In the
second stage, there will be executed qualitative research by interviewing representatives of the enterprises working in the fields of retail trade, logistics and manufacturing
It is planned to use the 4+1 levels to describe the BPT:
L0 – Supply Chain map;
L1 – the main processes of the supply chain, ex. Procurement, Manufacturing, Sales, Logistics etc.
L2 – the phases of the main processes. For example. Product design, Production planning, Manufacturing, Quality control, etc.
L3 – the main activities that are performed in each process phase. For example, Preparation of Demand, Master Production Scheduling, Material Requirement Planning activities.
L4 – the tasks and how they are supported. For example, the collection of data for demand calculation.

Results
Competence matrices for the selected work processes of procurement, logistics and manufacturing discussed and updated by all partners.
Structural descriptions of the changing competence needs in the analysed work processes.
AS-IS and TO-BE BPT developed accordingly to the specific needs of procurement, manufacturing and logistics organisations.

DSCM 4.0 module longer-term benefits.
Attracts international students
Enhance collaboration between companies and partner universities
Provides basement for joined International curriculum
Teachers provide Online international in-service training

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 135484 Eur

Project Coordinator

TALLINNA TEHNIKAKORGKOOL & Country: EE

Project Partners

• REZEKNES TEHNOLOGIJU AKADEMIJA
• VYTAUTO DIDZIOJO UNIVERSITETAS