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Industrial Supply Chain Management

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 654-0941/03
Abbreviation RPDR
Course title Industrial Supply Chain Management
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Industrial Systems Management
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Šárka Vilamová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Logistics management, definition, goals, principles, main and supporting logistics processes.
2. Industrial supply chain management, definition, goals, principles, trends.
3. Sustainable logistics management and supply chain management, leanness, agility, resilience, greenness.
4. Logistics management of industrial companies and supply chains, definition, development in the Czech Republic and around the world.
5. Purchase logistics management, purchasing processes in an industrial company, supplier evaluation and selection.
6. Production logistics management, leading logistics systems and concepts in production, MRP/ERP systems, lean/JIT concepts, Theory of Constraints systems.
7. Distribution logistics management in the area of industrial markets, used systems and concepts, distribution a logistics centres.
8. Inventory control, modern methods and tools for inventory analysis and control in an industrial company.
10. Warehousing management, warehouse activities and technologies, warehouse planning and design, modern warehouse systems.
11. Material handling and packaging, handling units and equipment, logistics functions and types of packages, automatized handling systems.
12. Transportation, intelligent transport technologies, company transport, logistics service providers.
13. Modern information systems and technologies for supporting logistics activities, automated identification systems, Industry 4.0 project.
14. Utilisation of quantitative decision making methods for analysis, design and improvement of logistics processes and systems.

Literature

BELVEDERE, V. and A. GRANDO. Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management. Chihester: John Wiley & Sons, 2017. ISBN 978-11-192-8495-6 .
LENORT R. Production Logistics Concepts and Systems: Potential for Use in Metallurgical and Waste Processing Companies. Krakow: AGH University of Science and Technology Press, 2010. ISBN 978-83-7464-302-3 .
COHEN, S. and J. ROUSSEL. Strategic Supply Chain Management: the Five Disciplines for Top Performance. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2013. ISBN 978-0-07-181308-2.

Advised literature

SWINK, M. Managing Operations across the Supply Chain. 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill international ed. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2014. ISBN 978-1-259-06090-8.
CHOPRA. S. and P. MEINDL. Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation. 6th edition. Pearson Education India, 2016. ISBN 978-9332548237 .


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