1. What is logistics, the mission and principles of logistics management.
2. Typical logistic activities.
3. Consumer service level in logistics. Logistic costs. Logistic trade-offs.
4. Batch sizing, economic order quantity model.
5. Throughput time planning and analyzing.
6. Inventory management: reasons for holding inventory, functional classification of inventories, inventory replenishment model.
7. ABC classification and its implementation in inventory management.
8. Production planning: the principles, product mix, agregate planning, master production schedule, capacity balancing, scheduling.
9. Synchronous operations philosophy, theory of constraints.
10. Logistics in distribution: consolidation and deconsolidation, costs of distribution, cross docking, hub and spoke, logistic providers.
11. Tracebility and tools for automatic identification.