Key words
Logistics management, T003 Technology of transport
Objectives
The course wants to make students familiar with basic concepts and simultaneously provide a general understanding of all aspects of logistics management.
Trade and industry pay ever more attention to rationalising flows of goods within and without the company.
Students will be able to trace the logistics chain (from supplier to customer) and recognize its phases (supply chain, materials handling, physical distribution).
Issues of physical distribution are analysed and placed within the larger frame of logistics management.
Students must be able to get the right quantity of goods to the right place at the right time at minimum cost.
Topics
- Introduction
- Intermediaries in transport
- Incoterms
- Physical distribution
- International physical distribution
The course first structures issues in order to allow integrated exercises.
Prerequisites
Final competencies of secondary education
Final Objectives
Knowledge:
Job-related:- Knowledge of integral logistics
- Knowledge of material management and physical distribution
- Knowledge of professional literature on logistics
- Knowledge of developments in the profession
- Knowledge of technical terminology
- Knowledge of professional organisations
- Knowledge of current events in the field
- Knowledge of incoterms
- Knowledge of regulations for intermediaries in shipping goods
Skills:
General:- Capacity for critical reflection
- Consulting sources
General and job-related:
Job-related:- Keeping up with reality in the logistics trade through professional literature
- Expressing logistical problems, analysing and solving them
- Developing a distribution system and monitoring it
Attitudes:
General:
Job-related:- Handling logistics information
- Being able to select from this information
- Keeping up to date through professional literature
- Critical attitude
Materials used
Lecturer's syllabus
Study costs
Photocopies at the current Hogeschool Gent rate
Study guidance
Students may always consult with the lecturer (during and after classes or by e-mail)
Teaching Methods
Question and answer, guided and individual exercises.
Moreover, time is spent on professional literature and on finding additional information that may be presented for the entire group.
Assessment
- First exam session: 100% written exam
- Second exam session: 100% written exam
- Students registered for the examinations only:
first and second exam session: 100% written exam in either session
Lecturer(s)
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