Material Flow Management in Raw Materials Industry

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	545-0174/01
Abbreviation	ŘMT
Course title	Material Flow Management in Raw Materials Industry
Credits	5
Coordinating department	Department of Economics and Control Systems
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Pavel Staša, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Characteristics of flows and processes in the raw materials industry. Arrangement of strings and their structure.
2. Economic aspects of material flow management. Performance, cost, service level. Economic balancing.
3. Problems of batch size, substance of batches.
4. Continuous time. Nature, structure, influencing factors. Methods of determination and analysis of the continuous time.
5. Capacity, capacity balance - nature and procedure.
6. Production planning and management: basic functions and tasks, aspects and background for production planning.
7. Supply logistics. Inventory classification. Customer order release point, demand prediction, pull and push systems.
8. Inventory management at the point of disconnection, level of supply services. Ordering systems.
9. Scheduling tasks, materiál flow management. JIT philosophy and lean manufacturing systems.
10 Information systems - ERP, APS.
11. Conditions of economic behavior in global environment. Types of transport, optimal use of transport capacity.
12. Distribution. Basic tasks in distribution, pooling, sorting and assembly, the roll of logistics service providers.
13. Classification and characteristics of technical means in the raw materials industry.

E-learning

For communication beyond in-person lectures and exercises, the Moodle learning management system (lms.vsb.cz) is used. This platform facilitates communication not only between the instructor and students but also among students themselves.

Literature

VANĚČEK, Drahoš. Logistics. V Českých Budějovicích: Jihočeská univerzita, Ekonomická fakulta, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7394-197-0.
MURPHY, Paul Regis a A. Michael KNEMEYER. Contemporary logistics. Eleventh edition. Boston: Pearson, [2015]. Always learning. ISBN 978-1-292-00484-6.
CHRISTOPHER, Martin. Logistics & supply chain management. 4th ed. Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2011. ISBN 978-0-273-73112-2.
RÉVEILLAC, Jean-Michel. Modeling and simulation of logistics flows. 1, Theory and fundamentals. London, UK: ISTE, 2017. .

Advised literature

SKOWRON-GRABOWSKA, Beata, ed. Innovation of logistics processes: monograph. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2014. Monograph. ISBN 978-80-248-3562-4.
DAGANZO, Carlos F. Logistics systems analysis [Daganzo, 2010]. 4th ed. Berlin: Springer, c2010. ISBN 978-3-642-06294-0.
GRANT, David B. Logistics management. Pearson, 2012. Always learning. ISBN 978-0-273-73135-1.
GHIANI, Gianpaolo, Gilbert LAPORTE a Roberto MUSMANNO. Introduction to logistics systems management. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley, 2013. Wiley series in operations research and management science. ISBN 978-1-119-94338-9.

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