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Logistics

Prerequisite

Basic Business Administration
Teaching methods Lecture
Learning target / Competences

Students

  • Can use the knowledge they have acquired to develop innovative solutions for companies ("Applying the old in a new way, that's innovation" – Joseph Alois Schumpeter).
  • can assess and prioritize practical tasks ("If you can't measure, you can't manage" – Peter Drucker)
  • understand the topic of logistics and can classify it in the professional environment of logistics/trade
  • understand the value of (new) learning ("A new thought is first laughed at, then fought against, until after a long time it is taken for granted" – Arthur Schopenhauer)
  • establish links within the course and contexts of the module to the business studies subjects
  • acquire abstract and analytical thinking with the help of quantitative methods of production management
  • acquire the ability to work constructively together on complex issues and in difficult situations.
Duration 1 Semester
Hours per week 4.0
Overview
Classes 60 h
Individual / Group work: 120 h
Workload 180 h
ECTS 6.0
Requirements for awarding credit points

Written exam (K120)
Responsible person

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffen Rietz
Recommended semester 2. Semester
Frequency Every sem.
Usability

Bachelor’s degree programs:
Betriebswirtschaft
Betriebswirtschaft Logistik und Handel
Lectures

Logistics and Materials Management

Type Lecture
Nr. W0147
Hours per week 2.0
Content
  • Supply Chain Characteristics
  • Network Design – Horizontal
  • Network Design – Vertical
  • Demand Forecast
  • Aggregated Planning
  • Inventory Management – Economic Order Quantity
Literature

Learning objectives, charts and tasks are distributed to the class. Combined with the corresponding course transcripts, this becomes the personal script. Cf. bibliography in the first chapter of the course.

Supply Management

Type Lecture
Nr. W0148
Hours per week 2.0
Content
  1. Internationalization strategies
  2. Buying market research
  3. Procurement strategies (espec. the “Kraljic case”)
  4. Supplier selection and assessment
  5. Make-or-buy decisions
  6. Cash-to-cash cycle time in procurement
  7. Total cost of ownership
  8. IT-based procurement methods

Students

  • know the essential supply theories and methods
  • can summarize complex supply-chain connections in computable solutions
  • can apply the (horizontal and vertical) supply theories and methods
  • know the current textbooks on the subject and see examples of practical application
  • know the value of acquiring knowledge via subject-specific primary literature ("The practice of today is the theory of the grandfathers" – Joseph Alois Schumpeter)
  • know approaches to acquiring subject-specific competencies outside academia
  • can relate current topics of procurement to the course
Literature

Learning objectives, charts and tasks are distributed to the class. Combined with the corresponding course transcripts, this becomes the personal script. Cf. bibliography in the first chapter of the course.
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