MAD 1214 Logistics
MAD 1214 Logistics
Logistics studies the physical and administrative processes that surround the acquisition, handling, storage and transportation of products and materials and discusses how these services are made available to the end customer.
Logistical processes often take place across the traditional internal business infrastructures and they affect both the customer and the deliverer. The way that these processes are carried out has a strong impact on both competition and profitability. As a subject, logistics is currently going through a process of development where the main focus of attention was on cost savings in parts of the value chain. Now a more holistic approach is taking place whereby savings can be made as a result of internal integration within a company as well as by cooperation between the deliverer and customer.
Logistics involves maintaining a broad overview over how an industry chain functions, whilst also maintaining an understanding of how the costs incurred by each component in the chain can lead to different consequences. For example, a strong focus on the costs incurred by storage can contribute to a rise in transportation costs and vice versa.
NB!
This course overlaps with course ELE 3715 Logistics and Marketing Channels (7.5 study points) and with course MRK 3520 Marketing Channels and Logistics (7.5 study points). It is therefore not possible to combine this course with any of these above mentioned courses towards a bachelor degree.
After completion of the course students will have a basic insight into what logistics means and how it has developed. Students will be able to:
- Understand logistics and Supply Chain Management
- Recognize models such as Du Pont's total cost analysis, ABC analyses and other classification models.
- Examples of concepts that students will be able to identify
- Delivery service
- Logistic costs
- Delivery relations
- Strategic alliances
- Optimizing costs
- Recognize models that optimize the movement of goods
Upon course completion students should be able to explain how, with a focus on customer service, one combines economic, social and political perspectives to analyze the physical movement of goods.
Students will be able to:
- Perform a distribution analysis to find the most effective channels from producer to customer
- Perform a delivery analysis and know how to make the most effective purchase and how one can foster close relations with individual deliverers
- Perform a storage analysis and set up a production plan for a specific company
- Carry out a correct and cost effective delivery service between the components in the supply chain
- Be able to model simple problems in optimalization in connection with transport and storage
- Use Excel Solver to solve optimalization models
At the end of the course students will be fully aware of how the utilization of effective distribution channels can come into conflict with protecting the environment. They shall also develop an ethical awareness in relationship to the handling of deliveries in connection with procurement
- Introduction to what logistics is about, what it encompasses and its development
- Delivery service and its significance to the customer
- How do we quantify delivery service?
- Prognoses and storage management
- Production management
- Purchase and delivery cooperation
- Distribution and transport place in the company and the significance of this for the value chain.
- Principles for creating effective logistic processer
- Logistics as a competitive strategy
- The meaning of logistics for the environment.
- The impact of information technology on logistics
- What do the leading logistics companies do?
- Optimalization models for transport and storage
This course consists of lectures and exercises which amount to a total of 45 hours. Excel spreadsheets will be used in this course.
In this course, students will participate in a digital supply chain game, RealGame. This game will strengthen the understanding of challenges in a supply chain and will give students a good basis for the exam.
Starting in the spring of 2024, the form of evaluation in this course has changed from one exam code (MAD 12141) to two exam codes (MAD 12142 and MAD 12143).
A re-sit examination is offered in the former exam code MAD 12141 in autumn 2023 and last time in spring 2024.
Higher Education Entrance Qualification
Disclaimer
Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.
There are no special requirements for this course.
| Assessments |
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Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Structured test Weight: 30 Grouping: Individual Duration: 90 Minute(s) Comment: Mid-term exam - home Exam code: MAD 12142 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination every semester |
Exam category: Submission Form of assessment: Structured test Invigilation Weight: 70 Grouping: Individual Support materials:
Duration: 3 Hour(s) Exam code: MAD 12143 Grading scale: ECTS Resit: Examination every semester |
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
| Activity | Duration | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Teaching | 40 Hour(s) | |
Webinar | 5 Hour(s) | |
Prepare for teaching | 45 Hour(s) | Work with excel case |
Group work / Assignments | 60 Hour(s) | Work with excel case |
Student's own work with learning resources | 46 Hour(s) | |
Examination | 4 Hour(s) |
A course of 1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 26-30 hours. Therefore a course of 7,5 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of at least 200 hours.