Course detail
Business Logistics
FP-OolPAcad. year: 2024/2025
he course provides students with basic project knowledge of material and information flow and their optimization. It deals with development trends in logistics as global discipline and presents information needed for solving different complicated and global issues such as purchase, supply, product and run problems, which are required for effective business management. The course offers instruments for solving material flows problems within the logistic chains. Knowledge of logistics disciplines will be necessary to adopt in all trade firms, which work in retailing, export and import, but by manufacturing organizations and organizations which provide services too.
Services as a competitive advantage must create a link in the value chain in the value chain.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The oral part tests student’s ability to apply the theoretical knowledge in practice.
Written part - 70 %
Oral part - 30 %
Both parts of the exam are implemented in a single period.
Both parts of the exam are implemented in a single period.
Lectures are recommended, but provide knowledge for exercises in the laboratory - Microsoft Project. Attendance is required and checked by the tutor in written form of an attendance list. Also controlled is a partial solution of the case study in the middle of the semester.Absence from seminars can be compensated for by attending special make-up seminars the terms of which are announced by teachers at the end of the semester.
Aims
Students will be able to create and project logistic concepts in industrial organizations. They will be able to project logistic chains and networks using information and communication technologies. They will learn how to manage a logistics department, accomplish the mission of logistics procurement, i.e. purchasing, storage, packing technology, marking of products and etc. Students will learn how to form and evaluate controlling activities in logistic processes, determine the economy of logistic processes, activities and outputs. Students will be able to project the technology of logistic processes and propose a technique for these processes.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
RUSHTON, A., P. CROUCHER a P. BAKER. The handbook of logistics. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Kogan Page, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7494-5714-3.
RUSHTON, A., P. CROUCHER a P. BAKER. The handbook of logistics. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Kogan Page, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7494-5714-3.
SCHULTE, P. Complex IT project management: 16 steps to success. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach Publications, 2004. ISBN 08-493-1932-3. (CS)
ŠTŮSEK, J. Řízení provozu v logistických řetězcích. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2007.C.H. Beck pro praxi. ISBN 978-80-7179-534-6.
Recommended reading
KERBER, Bill; DRECKSHAGE, Brian J. Lean supply chain management essentials : a framework for materials managers. Boca Raton, [Fla.] : CRC Press, 2011. 258 s. ISBN 978-143-9840-825.
LUKOSZOVÁ, X. Logistické technologie v dodavatelském řetězci. Praha: Ekopress, 2012. ISBN 978-80-86929-89-7.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR-MEO Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Supply processes synchronized with production.Inventory management. Types of inventory.The selection of suppliers.Calculation of delivery size, delivery cycles.Costs of supply processes.ransport and storage systems.
Extra-corporate logistics system in the transport chain.
Intra-company transport systems.Distribution logistics and circulation logistics.Packaging..Output of goods and ensuring loading.Distribution logistics costs.Order management.
Order release, work schedule, order monitoring.
Creation of supplier networks within supplier-customer relationships.
SCM philosophy and its application in practiceThe essence of logistics.
Logistics as a scientific discipline, as a practical approach to management.
Logistics goals. Logistics concept.
Personnel aspects of logistics.
Procurement logistics.
Tasks, goals, supply logistics strategies.
Supply processes synchronized with production.
Inventory management. Types of inventory.
The selection of suppliers.
Calculation of delivery size, delivery cycles.
Costs of supply processes.
Transport and storage systems.
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Syllabus