Course details

Business Logistics

POL Acad. year 2015/2016 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

The course provides students with basic project knowledge of material and information flow and their optimization. It deals with development trends in logistics as global discipline and presents information needed for solving different complicated and global issues such as purchase, supply, product and run problems, which are required for effective business management. The subject aims is to teach How to calculate rentability and economy of logistics processes both for industrial organization and customers. The course makes presumption for projecting of logistics networks; asuring fluency material with minimum level of inventory etc.

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 10 hrs lectures
  • 20 hrs exercises

Department

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Student will be made familiar with:Description of material flow in production, trading and distribution organization.Order processing in manufacturing organization Proposing of a design for management of supplies relations.Design and implementation of logistics systems in selected firms with the use of basic project management tool - Microsoft Project - form case study Management inventory. Production logistics in Škoda Auto – excursion. Selection process of supply strategy – purchase marketing – form – case studyBesides student will acquire basic skills of logistics manager in the given conditions

Learning objectives

The course provides basic information necessary to understand the problems of controlling and optimising material flow with the use of information flows to achieve the efficiency. Basic theoretical approaches will be verified in industrial organizations in form of excursions. Student will understand how to create continuous material flows in point of disconnection, and project an optimal inventory level for assuring continuity of all other activities. Also dealt with is the sphere of material components procurement components as resources for entrepreneurial activities in an industrial organization.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

When a student begins the course, he/she is expected to have the knowledge and skills in the area of manufacturing technologies in industrial organizations. Besides this condition student must be familiar with business economy, mathematics disciplines, statistics, theory of decisions, informatics technologies and communication technologies. Students will deepen their knowledge of profitability of assets, management theory, and of obtaining data from accounting.

Study literature

  • LAMBERT,D.M.,STOCK,J.R.,ELLRAM,L.M. Logistika. Praha: Computer Press, 2006 -
  • JUROVÁ,M. Evropská unie Odvětví a infrastruktura. 1.vyd. Brno: Computer Press 1999
  • EMMETT,S. Řízení zásob. Brno Computer Press 2008, 298s. ISBN 978-80-251-1828-3
  • STRAUBE,F. e-Logistika.Berlin Springer-Verlag 2004, 424s. ISBN 3-540-20869-0
  • RUSHTON, A. a kol. The handbook of logistics & distribution management . London  Philadelphia Kogan Page 2010, 635p. ISBN 978-0-7494-5714-3

Fundamental literature

  • JUROVÁ,M. Obchodní logistika1.a 2.díl, Brno Akademické nakladatelství CERM 2006,s. 86+130, ISBN 80-214-3128-8
  • JUROVÁ,M. a kol. Výrobní procesy řízené logistikou.. 1.vyd. Praha Albatros Media 2013, 260s. ISBN 978-80-265-0059-9

Syllabus of lectures

  1. Fundamentals of logistics.
  2. Logistics as science discipline vs. practical management approach.
  3. Logistics goals. Logistics conception. Personal aspects of logistics. Logistics procurement.
  4. Objectives, goals and strategy of procurement logistics.
  5. Production synchronized with the inventory processes.
  6. Inventories management. Kind of inventories.
  7. Suppliers selection process.
  8. Calculation of order quantity and order cycles.
  9. Costs on supply processes.
  10. Transports and inventories systems.Extra-enterprises logistic system in transportation chains.
  11. In-house traffic systems.Distributed and rotation logistics. Packing. Output products and assuring loading.
  12. Costs on distributed logistics. Order management.
  13. Order release, work schedule, order monitoring.

Progress assessment

Výuka není kontrolována.

Controlled instruction

Attendance is checked at all forms of lessons by the tutor. Absence from seminars in computer lab has to be compensated. Make-up seminars in a computer lab will be announced after the end of the semester. Activities are checked by presenting the results of individual case studies.

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme IT-MGR-2, field MMI, any year of study, Elective
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