Johan Lundin

The misalignment cycle: Is the management of your supply chain aligned?

Purpose of this paper The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for describing and analyzing misalignments in supply chain management, which relate to changes in supply chain structures, processes, and management components. Design/methodology/approach Based on the systems approach, a single-case study with embedded design including several embedded cases from the same supply chain was deployed. This was done according to the abductive research approach, which is favourable when extending existing and developing new theory. In order to describe the case study, data was collected through observations, interviews and workshops, and later analyzed through pattern matching. The case studied was the Swedish cash supply chain, which was appropriate since it has gone through several changes in its supply chain structure and management. Findings and original/value of paper A framework to describe and analyze misalignments in the supply chain was developed. The framework proposed consists of two steps: 1. Identify changes in the supply chain, and 2. Identify misalignments. For every step respectively, a specific and more detailed framework was developed in order to facilitate the identification processes. With the framework a researcher or practitioner gets a structured approach to map the management of a supply chain so that its current misalignments can be identified. (Less)

Master of science in risk management and safety engineering, at Lund University, Sweden

To obtain a Master of Science in Risk Management and Safety Engineering at Lund University the students must write a master’s thesis based on a final project. The efforts correspond to full-time studies for one semester, i.e. 30 ETCS credits or 20 Swedish credits. The students can choose to write the report in Swedish, i.e. their mother tongue, or in English. In addition to the thesis a student is also required to summarize the work in an executive summary written in English. This report includes the executive summaries written by students for the years 2001 - 2006. A short description of the structure and contents of the Master’s programme is presented in Appendix A.