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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Industrial Logistics I

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 545-0164/01
Abbreviation PRLI
Course title Industrial Logistics I
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Economics and Control Systems
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Pavel Staša, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Logistics: origin and historical development, basic concepts of logistics. Processes, logistic goals and principles, logistic strings, logistic networks and their structure, logistics flows, logistic interfaces.

2. The nature of the process, its structure and types of transformation. Types of production and product types. BOM function.

3. Logistic efficiency, logistics performance, logistics costs, logistics level. Economic Balancing in Logistics.

4. Problems of batch size, substance of batches. Effect of batch size on logistic quantities.

5. Continuous time. Nature, structure, influencing factors. Methods of determination and analysis of the running time.

6. Capacity in logistics: usable time fund, workplace performance, labor productivity, capacity balance - nature and process.

7. Introduction to production planning and management

8. Pre-production preparation and its impact on logistics.

9. Supply logistics. Stock classification, inventory costs, inventory speed indicators.

10. Production logistics, scheduling tasks, production process control.

11. Distribution logistics. Basic tasks in distribution logistics, pooling, division and assembly, the role of logistics service providers,

12. Structure of the warehouse network in distribution including types of warehouses. Function of logistics distribution centers.

13. Types of distribution channels. Direct delivery, warehouse delivery system, cross docking, transshipment.

14. Classification and characterization of technical means in logistics.

Literature

CHRISTOPHER, Martin.: Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Pitman
Publishing, London 2016. ISBN-10: 9781292083797 

Advised literature

LINFORD, P. and de VILLIERS, P. Business Logistics
Management. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-578011-6.

DILWORTH, James, B.: Operations management. Design, Planning and Control
for Manufacturing and Services. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996. ISBN-13: 978-0070170216