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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Fundamental Logistics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-0399/01
Abbreviation ZL
Course title Fundamental Logistics
Credits 4
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Aleš Slíva, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

First week: Development of logistics, logistics definition , tasks and objects logistics. Logistics aims . The importance of logistics in transport, handling and storage.
Introduction to programen exercise. Calculation of the impact of savings in logistics costs for profit.

Second week: Basic logistics concepts. Logistic system and its exploration.
The logistics chain.
Elements of a bond system and their mathematical expression. Inputs and outputs system. Static and dynamic system.

3rd week: Distribution logistics . Objectives of distribution logistics. Feedback logistics and recycling.
The intensity of the mass flow. Handling work.

4th week: Movement of matter: the driving force of the reproductive process. logistics transformation of materials, energy and information. System approach and integrated approach material and information flows.
The logistics indicators.

5th week: Home logistical problems and their solutions. Manufacturing strategy.
Method Just in Time. KANBAN system .

6th week: Stock management, creation of reserves.
Model making supplies. Model optimization of inventory in the planning of removal.

7th week: Transported materials. Formulation of a mathematical expression
transport problems.
TEST # 1 .

8th week: Material Flow
Traffic performance for continuous and intermittent transport.

9th week: Business logistics .
Analysis of material , Chart P-Q .

10th week: Information technology in logistics. Planning the logistics.
Methods of locating objects on the intensity of the flow of material.

11th week: Packing, containerization and palletization. Distribution handling
products and systems.
Sizing handling devices and systems. Calculation of pallet and
the number of containers.

12th week: Logistics in material handling.
TEST # 2

13th week: Transport: railway , automobile , marine , pipeline and air.
Criteria for choice of transport and transport services providers.
Calculating the cost of transport modes. Comparison of modes of transport.

14th week: Reserve

Literature

Muther, R.: Systematic Layout Planning (S.L.P.), Industrial Education
Institute, 1961.
Stock, J., R., Lambert, M, D.: Strategic Logistics Management, New York,
McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Douglas M. Lambert and James R. Stock, Strategic Logistics Management,
(Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1993), 862 pp.
Lambert, D., M., Stock, J., R., Vantine, J.: Strategic Logistics
Management,Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1999.
Lambert, D., M., Stock, J., R., Ellram., L., M.: Fundamentals of Logistics
Management, Burr Ridge, Illinois: Irwin-McGraw Hill, 1998.

Slíva, A., Günther, P. Základy logistiky/Fundamental Logistics.

Advised literature

The recommended literature is the same with the compulsory.