Transport and Logistics Management
Course Overview
Transport and Logistics Management improves the efficiency of each department within a business by streamlining its operations and costs and therefore increasing its profitability. The programme in Strategic Logistics Management covers all aspects of strategic logistics management: From theories to strategies and operational guidelines, emphasising the impact of this discipline on customer service, transportation, warehousing, order processing, purchasing, importing and exporting
Course Objectives
- Logistic roles in the economy and company
- Supply chain management
- Customer service
- Financial impact of inventory
- Inventory management
- Managing material flow
- The logistics-manufacturing interface
- Transportation and transportation strategies
- Computer technology and traffic management
- Warehousing
- Materials handling, computerisation and packaging
- Procurement procedures
- Global logistics strategies
- Importance of an effective logistics organisation
- Measurement and control of the performance of the logistics function
- The strategic logistics plan
Course Outline
Integrated Global Supply Chain and Logistics Management
- Introduction to supply chain and logistics management
- Current supply chain strategies
- Customer service and logistics
- Channels of distribution
- Planning framework for logistics
- Logistics management and organisation
Inventory Management Supply Chains
- Inventory flows and supply chains
- Forms of inventory and their role
- Inventory as buffer islands in a supply stream
- Demand amplification and distortion
- Setting and measuring the effectiveness of inventory
- Planning and forecasting
- Collaborative approaches to optimisation
Outsourcing Trends and Best Practice
- Outsourcing operations and services
- Value added services
- Key drivers for outsourcing
- The selection process
- Outsourcing management
- Managing the 3PL relationship
- Detailed metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Freight Transport Industry - Introduction and Development
- Economics, environment and policy
- Effect of trade deregulation on industrial development
- Global sourcing, industry relocation and its impact on transportation requirement
- Globalisation and energy efficiency
- The environment and CO2 emissions
- The World Trade Organisation process and quota regimes
- Legislation, authorities and the regulatory environment
- Issues
Freight Transport Industry - Road, Rail, Air and Sea Transport
- Transport characteristics
- Road
- Rail
- Air
- Sea
- Pressures on the industry
- Social
- Security
- Environmental
- Forecasting transportation demand
- Port and terminal capacity
- Current and future trends
Warehouse and Distribution Centre Design
- Outsourcing of warehouse operations
- Warehouse location planning
- Operations - order picking
- Operations - packaging
- Warehouse design and fittings
- Storage systems –manual and automated
- Combined storage and order fulfilment systems
- Sortation systems
- Warehouse layouts and material flow
- Control systems
- The green influence
- Building and utilities
- Storage
- Material handling
- Monitoring overall energy and carbon usage
- Distribution transport
- Waste management
- e-fulfillment (B2C)
Key Issues for Global Supply Chain and Logistics Management
- Developments impacting on the supply chain
- Logistics processes
- Logistics network planning
- Inventory and the integrated supply chain
- Problems with traditional approaches to inventory planning
- New inventory requirements
- The lead-time gap
- Inventory and time
- Inventory planning for manufacturing
- Inventory planning for retailing
- Best practice
- Reverse logistics
Information Communications Technology and Supply Chains
- Supply chain and IT strategy
- The role of supply chain systems in business change
- Transaction systems
- Planning systems
- Data analysis and reporting
- ASP, outsourcing and security
- Transport management systems
- Supply co-ordination and warehousing systems
- Implementation
- IT and process mapping tool
Performance Measurement and Improvement - Optimisation Strategies
- Background to logistics and supply chain management
- Modelling techniques in logistics and supply chain management
- Review of logistics and supply chain performance indicators
- Analytical performance and benchmarking techniques
- Current issues in supply chain performance and optimisation

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