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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Logistics A

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 152-0302/08
Abbreviation LOG A
Course title Logistics A
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Business Administration and Law
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Pavla Macurová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. The concept of logistics and logistic management, their functions and aims. Processes, logistic chain, logistic net, interfaces. Typical logistic activities. Service level and costs in logistics.
2. Pre-production preparing and its influence on the logistic: classification of processes and flows, types of production, steps of pre-production preparing, bill of material, time standards, standards of material consumption.
3. Batch sizing.
4. Capacity, specialization and layout of workplaces.
5. Throughput time – structure of throughput time, factors of throughput time, value- and non-value added activities, tools for planning and analysis of throughput time.
6. Inventory management: kinds of inventory, inventory costs, inventory turnover and inventory daysinventory replenishment models, safety stock, ABC-Analysis.
7. Production planning and control: kinds of production plans, term and capacity planning, scheduling, shop floor management.
8. Tracking and tracing in logistics. Means for automatical identification.
9. Logistics in distribution: basic tasks in distribution, consolidation, deconsolidation, logistic providers, distribution channels, comparison of transport means, reverse logistics, INCOTERMS, city logistics.
10. Warehousing: basic tasks in warehousing, kinds of warehouses, technical means for warehousing.

Literature

1. G. de Villiers – P. Linford Vogt, Pienaar – de Wit: Business Logistics
Management. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-578011-6.
2. Christopher, M.: Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Pitman
Publishing, London 1992.
3. Dilworth, J.B.: Operations management. Design, Planning and Control
for Manufacturing and Services. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1992. ISBN 0-07-016988-
8.

Advised literature

1. Jacobs, Roger a Richard Chase. Operations and Supply Chain Management. 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2012. 518 s. ISBN 978-0073525235.