Key words
Transport management, IWETO code T003 transport technology, S136 Transport law, S181 Financial sciences, S190 management
Objectives
Students should gain an understanding of specific aspects of a forwarder firm / department at the management level.
Acquiring know-how in planning, organizing transport and distribution with practice in transport optimizing.
Knowing typical aspects of costing in a transport company.
Topics
Part 1: organization of the transport sector
Part 2: labour regulations in logistics
Part 3: telematics
Part 4: company optimizing in the logistics branch- Decisions of investment
- Calculating costs in transport companies
- Calculating price in transport companies
- Planning tours
Prerequisites
Basics of management
Final Objectives
Knowledge:
Job-related:- Knowing transport management
- Knowing professional literature at the logistics, economic, judicial, fiscal, social … level
- Knowing developments in the field
Skills:
General:- Keeping knowledge up to date
- Consulting sources
General and job-related:- Handling numerical data
- Following up on developments in the field and in the industry, as well as in economic life in general
- Discerning problems
- Analytic and practical thinking
Job-related:- Negotiating with forwarders, middlemen and suppliers
- Following up on reality in logistics, transport, finances and economy through professional literature
- Checking rapidly evolving transport legislation on correctness, comprehensiveness and topicality
- Tracing, listing and collecting any sources containing information on logistics, transport, finances and economy
- Collecting, registering and classifying professional data
- Choosing among various modes of transport as well as drawing up, entering and following up route planning
- Understanding and distilling information offered and following up on it
- Handling national and international shipments operationally and commercially
- Making and checking quotations
Attitudes:
General:- Customer orientation
- Critical attitude
- Eye for quality
- Meticulousness
General and job-related:- Resultmindedness
- Working according to plan
Job-related:- Working towards a goal according to plan
- Service orientation towards customers and staff
- Being selective with this information
- Having a sense of comprehensiveness
- Being practical
- Distilling relevant or goal-oriented information
- Following up on transport legislation
- Keeping up professional reading
- Critical attitude
Materials used
Course book and / or syllabus and sundry photocopies
Study costs
Course book at the normal pricePhotocopies at the current Hogeschool Gent rate
Expenses linked with assignments, possible excursions
Study guidance
Students may consult with the lecturer in weeks when there are classes.
Exercises are solved during classes.
Teaching Methods
Lecture with class exercises
Assessment
- First exam session: 70% written exam and 30% continuous assessment
- Second exam session: 100% written examination
Students registered for the examinations only:- First exam session: 70% written exam and 30% individual assignment
- Second exam session: 100% written examination
Lecturer(s)
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