Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Logistics Management and Quality Management

Type of study	Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	152-0540/01
Abbreviation	LMaQM
Course title	Logistics Management and Quality Management
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Business Administration and Law
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Pavla Macurová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1.Process approach, process definition and description, value stream, logistic chains and networks, process performance measurement.
2.Objects, goals and principles of logistics management and quality management. System approach and theory constraints. Performance measurement and costs related to logistics and quality.
3.Legal aspects in logistics and quality management with emphasis on international law and standards.
4.Logistics in purchasing, inventory control.
5.Logistics in production.
6.Logistics in distribution.
7.Management systems according to ISO standards.
8.Excellence Model EFQM and its implementation in performance management.
9.Methodology of analysis and improvement in logistics and quality management.
10.Concepts of supply chain management, partnership, tools for logistic integration.

Literature

G. de Villiers – P. Linford Vogt - Pienaar de Wit: Business Logistics Management. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-578011-6.
Pernica, P. – Mosolf, J. H.: Partnership in logistics. Praha: Radix, 2000. ISBN 80-86031-24-1.
Meredith, J. R. – Shafer, S. M.: Operations management for MBAs. Third edition. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2007.
Besterfield, D. H.: Total quality management. Third edition. Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN 0-13-099306-9.

Advised literature

Slack, N.: Operations and process management. London: Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN 0-273-68426-4.
Christopher, M.: Logistics and supply chain management. Pitman Publishing, 1992. ISBN 0-273-0-3415-4

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