Spring semester - Course list Global Supply Chain Management exchange programmes

• Terms of delivery: Incoterms® 
• Instruments of payments
• Payment of short term transactions
• Documents in international trade
• Financing of international transactions

• Legal and Illegal Advertising
• Company Structures
• Intellectual Property Rights: Trademarks, Design Rights, Patents and Copyright
• International Sales Contracts
• Other contracts: Licensing and Franchising, Agents and Distributors
• Competition Law
• General Data Protection Regulation (including Consumer Protection)

The advancement of technology and AI, climate crisis and Covid-19 have created an unpredictable and uncertain environment across business industries and society. Our VUCA world calls for a new approach to drive innovation and change, for organisations to remain competitive and relevant.

This course will help you gain insights about the importance of innovation today. We will focus on the following areas:

• Learning about change management and organisational change theories, tools and techniques
• Exploring the stages of the change process and the impact of change on the business environment
• Understanding the principles of Lean Change Management
• Analysing change in context: reasons of failure of no longer existing companies and companies being threatened now
• Discussing industry disruptions, megatrends, cross-industry evolutions and innovation principles & themes that companies need to stay relevant in the current environment and ensure the ongoing success of change
• Introducing Innovation Strategy frameworks for long-term relevance and success
• Applying and evaluating Innovation Strategy tools to set up a portfolio of innovative ideas for different business cases

1. Introduction

• Customs policy as an international trade policy instrument
• Customs unions
• Free trade areas
• Free trade agreements
• Third countries

2. Discover the World Customs Organization & World Trade Organization

3. Classification of goods

• Harmonised System (HS) and nomenclature
• Determination of HS codes
• Classification of goods in customs tariffs

4. Origin of goods

• Liberalization and expansion of world trade
• Preferential and non-preferential origin of goods

5. Valuation of goods

• Determination customs value of goods
• Methods of determination

6. Customs declaration process & bringing goods into the customs territory

7. Overview of special customs procedures

This is where geography meets strategy. Explore the impact of geopolitics on globalized business and supply chains. What interests (e.a. natural resources) determine global politics? What are the current and  future geopolitical challenges of an international supply chain and what consequences will they have on global business?

Understanding and facing these challenges is key to supply chain flows.

Learn how to measure potential factors such as political instability, societal polarisation and environmental concerns.

• A selection of these topics will be covered:
• Market analysis
  • Assessment of market size and calculation of potential market
  • Growth-Share matrices and portfolio models (BCG, GE)
• Segmentation
  • Segmentation methods and criteria.
  • Segmenting based on Indices (Category Development Index, Brand Opportunity Index), consumerpanels and by means of databases.
• Analysis of a business plan
• Statistics:
  • How to use regression analysis
  • And how to use historic data and results to forecast sales budgets (trend impact analysis)
• Solver Add-on in Excel
  • Use Solver to determine optimal sales team size
  • Use solver to find optimum in production planning and inventory
• Digital Metrics: Evaluation of online marketing campaigns
  • CPC, CPM, CTR, ROI
  • Evaluation of campaigns on websites and emailmarketing campaigns
• Break-even calculations
  • Break-even point, BE-point with expected revenues
  • BE-calculations to decide upon:
    • EOQ
    • To outsource or insource (Production, Logistics & warehousing, Sales (wholesale & distribution),…)
    • Make or buy decisions
• Profitability calculations
  • NPV, IR, ROI
  • Margin chains - contribution margin – markup/down
• Costing Calculation methods
  • Integral /Full Costing
  • Direct Costing
  • Differential Costing - Incremental Costing
  • TCO –Total Cost of Ownership
• Market Research - Data Analysis
  • How to perform a Market Research
  • Data Analysis by means of pivot tables, Looker Data Studio, PowerBI

Air Freight Logistics is a key part of the Global Transport Process. You get an overview of the different aspects of airfreight end the role in supply chain management. Topics include the major air transport routes, airports, airfreight load devices, airfreight cost calculation, innovation and shipping documents. You will get insight into pharma and healthcare as key user of air freight.

• Part One: Sales perspective
• Part Two: Sales practice
• Part Three: Sales environment
• Part Four: Sales management

This course will help you to develop your skills in Dutch, the language spoken in the Netherlands and in Flanders. The learning objective is to reach level A1 of the CEFR for languages: understand and use familiar everyday basic phrases, introduce yourself and others, interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help. However, students who are fluent in German tend to learn Dutch very fast and can reach an A2 level in one semester and will have the chance to do so. You’ll learn about the culture of Antwerp and Belgium, you’ll  recognize grammatical structures (A1) and use them (A2), you’ll develop your vocabulary, listening and speaking skills and you can choose between a more interactive and fun approach or a more classical approach focusing on grammar and vocabulary.