MAD 1214 Logistics

MAD 1214 Logistics

Course code: 
MAD 1214
Department: 
Accounting and Operations Management
Credits: 
7.5
Course coordinator: 
Eirill Bø
Course name in Norwegian: 
Logistikk
Product category: 
Bachelor
Portfolio: 
Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics - Programme Courses
Semester: 
2025 Spring
Active status: 
Active
Level of study: 
Bachelor
Teaching language: 
Norwegian
Course type: 
One semester
Introduction

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.

Learning outcomes - Knowledge

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
Learning outcomes - Skills

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
General Competence

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

Course content
  1. Introduction to what logistics is about, what it encompasses and its development
  2. Delivery service and its significance to the customer
  3. How do we quantify delivery service?
  4. Prognoses and storage management
  5. Production management
  6. Purchase and delivery cooperation
  7. Distribution and transport place in the company and the significance of this for the value chain.
  8. Principles for creating effective logistic processer
  9. Logistics as a competitive strategy
  10. The meaning of logistics for the environment.
  11. The impact of information technology on logistics
  12. What do the leading logistics companies do?
  13. Optimalization models for transport and storage
Teaching and learning activities

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.

Software tools
Software defined under the section "Teaching and learning activities".
Qualifications

Higher Education Entrance Qualification

Disclaimer

Deviations in teaching and exams may occur if external conditions or unforeseen events call for this.

Required prerequisite knowledge

There are no special requirements for this course.

Assessments
Assessments
Exam category: 
Submission
Form of assessment: 
Structured Test
Exam/hand-in semester: 
First Semester
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: 
School Exam
Form of assessment: 
Structured Test
Exam/hand-in semester: 
First Semester
Weight: 
70
Grouping: 
Individual
Support materials: 
  • No support materials
Duration: 
3 Hour(s)
Exam code: 
MAD 12143
Grading scale: 
ECTS
Resit: 
Examination every semester
Type of Assessment: 
Ordinary examination
All exams must be passed to get a grade in this course.
Total weight: 
100
Student workload
ActivityDurationComment
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)
Sum workload: 
200

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.