Key words
Logistics management, T003 Transport technology
Objectives
We intend to induce students to self-motivation and critical attitude. Issues of material management as well as production logistics are analysed and given a place within the logistics management frame.
Students have to able to word, analyse, implement and apply the different aspects of material management and production management.
Students have to be able to bring the right goods in the right quantity to the right place at the right time at minimal cost.
Attitudes to be developed are: accuracy, decisiveness, flexibility, critical attitude, assertiveness, independence, social openness. We intend to induce students to self-motivation and critical attitude.
Students need to be able to recognize, word, analyse and solve problems in the range of integral logistics.
Through assignments students get information and documentation about their skills.
The lecturer encourages problem solving by means of questions.
Topics
Principles of stock management, warehouse management, supply chain management, … outlining efficient stock control; as students do not find their jobs in exclusively expedition-tied firms, it has become necessary to give them an understanding of different stock models.
Internal transport, organising a warehouse, various handling, loading and unloading techniques are also dealt with.
Aspects of production management: MRP, JIT, …
Organisation and activity of a production shop, cost calculation, cases.
Current topics are treated.
Prerequisites
Final Objectives
Knowledge:
Job-related:- Command of integral logistics
- Command of material management and physical distribution
- Awareness of professional literature on logistics
- Awareness of developments in the field
Skills:
General:- Ability of critical reflection
- Ability of project work
- Self-study
- Keeping information up to date
- Consulting sources
- Acquiring and processing information
General and job-related:- Assessing the information offered (critical attitude)
- Keeping up with developments in the field and in companies where one works, as well as in business life in general
- Analytic and problem solving reflection
Job-related:- Giving customers information and advice about transport and logistics
- Keeping up with reality in logistics through professional literature
- Efficiently tracking, listing and collecting any sources containing logistics information
- Integrating aspects of logistics in management, as well as wording logistics issues and solutions
- Wording, analysing and solving issues of logistics, as well as planning and adjusting stock control, co-ordinating the reception, warehousing, internal transport and packaging of goods
- Being able to calculate total logistic cost of several approaches
- Establishing supply programs
Attitudes:
General:- Reliability
- Critical attitude
Job-related:- Handling logistics information
- Being able to select proper information
- Sense of comprehensiveness
- Follow-up on trends in logistics and applying them
- Keeping professional literature up to date
- Problem solving approach
- Critical attitude
Materials used
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Lecturer's syllabus
Study costs
Price of photocopies at the current Hogeschool Gent rate
Expenses linked to excursions, lectures, assignments
Study guidance
Students may ask their lecturer anytime during or after class, or by e-mail
Teaching Methods
In interactive sessions the theoretical framework is discussed.
Besides, time is spent discovering professional literature and analysing texts, seeking, processing, reporting and possibly presenting additional information.
Activities are practice-based, using exercises and excursions (see seminars and projects)
Assessment
- First exam session: 70% written exam and 30% continuous assessment
- Second exam session: 100% written exam
Students registered for the examinations only:- First exam session: 70% written exam and 30% assignment
- Second exam session: 100% written exam
Lecturer(s)
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