Course Description
This course is designed to provide the student with scientific knowledge in the areas of logistics and supply chain, physical distribution and logistical management. It provides many examples and models that enables students to choose appropriate alternatives that maximize the organizational return and the minimization of physical distribution and logistics activity expenses.
Course Aims
- Understanding logistics and supply chain terms.
- Identifying scientific and practical dimensions of the physical distribution activities.
- Identifying the role of the supply chain in customer service.
- Identifying the supply chain types and models in the globalization age
- Identifying inventory measure methods and immediate scheduling systems.
- Identifying the relationship between information technology and supply chain management.
Course Contents:
The course contains a set of basic concepts: (the concept of supply chain, achieving strategic fit and its scope, indicators and determinants of supply chain, designing distribution networks, designing supply chain networks, forecasting demand in the supply chain, macro planning in the supply chain, planning sales and operations, planning supply and demand in the supply chain, coordination in the supply chain, determination of the economic order size).
Course ID: MGMT111
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 4.50 | 4.50 | 4.5 | MGMT101 |
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