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Material Flow Management in Raw Materials Industry

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Course Unit Code545-0174/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
STA172doc. Ing. Pavel Staša, Ph.D.
Summary
In the field of Material Flow Management in the Raw Materials Industry, students are acquainted, among other things, with product and technology design, localization issues, requirements formulation in planning and management in supply, production and distribution. Attention is also paid to technical means and overview and to the establishment of legal norms that affect the raw materials industry.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Learning outcomes of the course unit the subject of Material Flow Management in the Raw Materials Industry introduces historical development, basic concepts, principles and objectives of material flow management. It focuses on orientation in various specific areas of raw material industry and on calculations of basic economic quantities.
Course Contents
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.

Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
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. ISBN 9781119368540.
BAZALA, Jaroslav et al. Logistika v praxi. Praha: Verlag Dashöfer, 2006. ISBN 80-86229-71-8.
KEŘKOVSKÝ, Miroslav. Moderní přístupy k řízení výroby. 2. vyd. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7400-119-2.
LAMBERT, Douglas et al. Logistika. 2. vyd. Brno: CP Books, 2005. ISBN 80-251-0504-0.
MACUROVÁ, Pavla. Řízení rizik v logistice. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2011. ISBN 978-80-248-2538-0.

Recommended Reading:
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.
SIXTA, Josef a Václav MAČÁT. Logistika: teorie a praxe. Brno: CP Books, 2005. ISBN 80-251-0573-3.
VINŠ, Marek, Michal MERVART a Petr JIRSÁK. Logistika pro ekonomy – vstupní logistika. Wolters Kluwer. Praha, 2013. 264 s. ISBN 978-80-7357-958-6
Časopisy Logistika, Systémy logistiky
MACUROVÁ, Pavla a Naděžda KLABUSAYOVÁ: Praktikum z logistického managementu. VŠB-TU, Ostrava 2002. ISBN 80-248-0104-3.
MACUROVÁ, Pavla, Naděžda KLABUSAYOVÁ a Leo TVRDOŇ. Logistika. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava, Ekonomická fakulta, 2014. ISBN 978-80-248-3791-8.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit30 (30)17
                Semestrální práceSemestral project30 17
        ExaminationExamination70 (70)34
                Písemná zkouškaWritten examination70 34