LOGPLOGA Logistics

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Summer 2014
Extent and Intensity
3/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Šárka Čemerková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Petr Vlček (lecturer)
Ing. Marta Wilczková (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Šárka Čemerková, Ph.D.
Department of Business Economics and Management – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Prerequisites
The registration of the subject does not require any conditions and subject may be enrolled independently of other subjects.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course objective is focused to handle basic logistic terms and approaches used in logistics. Logistics plays important role for all business activities for its entrepreneurial philosofy character. The intention of this course is to know elementary methods and logistic approaches and enligten them in practise by practical examples of modern ways for solving logistic problems with regard to market and marketing strategy.
Syllabus
  • 1. Logistics and supply chain management
    2. Key objectives and activities of business logistics
    3. Logistic costs management
    4. Supply and inventory management
    5. Nature and importance of customer service
    6. Phases of customer service
    7. Transportation
    8. Warehouses and warehousing
    9. Materials handling, packaging and reverse logistics
    10. Logistic methods and techniques
    11. Logistic information system and technologies
    12. Business logistic trends
    13. Logistic strategy
Literature
    required literature
  • Martin Christopher. The Strategy od Distribution Management0 7506. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data, 1994. ISBN 0 7506 0367 4. info
    recommended literature
  • LAMBERT, D., M., STOCK, J., R., ELLRAM, L., M. Fundamentals of Logistics Management. Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1998. ISBN 0-256-14117-7. info
  • ROSENAU, M., D. Successful Project Management. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN 0-471-29304-0. info
Teaching methods
Skills demonstration
Assessment methods
Written exam
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
seminar paper, final written exam
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2008, Summer 2009, Winter 2009, Summer 2010, Winter 2010, Summer 2011, Winter 2011, Summer 2012, Winter 2012, Summer 2013, Winter 2013.
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