Business Adm and Social Science

IET063 Industrial Logistics, Project Work 6.0 ECTS credits

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LANGUAGE: English/Swedish

EXAMINER
Svante Edzen Univ adj

PREREQUISITES
IET042 Industrial logistics, Advanced course

COURSE AIM
The aim of the course is to train the student methodologically in carrying out a project of logistics improvement in an industrial environment and to train the students to formulate objective method and theoretical frame of reference.

CONTENTS
Logistics projects, theoretical perspective. - positivism, System thinking - theory, method, techniques, and tools Logistics projects, examples of realization of logistics projects - The strategic Logistics Plan, Chap. 18, Lambert and Stock, Strategic Logistics Management - Network Design and Facility Location, Ch. 12, Coyle, Bardi and Langly, The Management of Business Logistics. - Reengineering Logistics Systems, Ch. 12, Examples of realization of management projects from consulting companies. - Visiting lecturers

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EXAMINATION

COURSE GRADE SCALE: 3, 4, 5

ITEMS AND CREDITS 
Project work                                                	6.0 ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Further Reading: Ballou, R.H. (1992). Business Logistics Management. Third edition. Prentice-Hall Inc. ISBN 0-13-093410-0. Churchman, C.W., (1979). The System Approach, Second edition. Dell publishing Co. Inc. ISBN 0-440-38407-9. Coyle,J. J., Bardi, E. J., Langly, C. J. Jr., (1995) The Management of Business Logistics. Sixth edition, West Publishing Co. ISBN 0-314-06507-5. Daellenbach, H. G. (1994). Systems and Decision Making, A Management Science Approach. John Wiley & Sons Ltd England. ISBN 0-471-950947. Johnson, J. C., Wood, D. F. (1996). Contemporary Logistics. Sixth edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-520909-9. Lambert D. M., Stock, J. R., (1993). Strategic Logistics Management. Third edition. Irwin, Inc. ISBN 0-256-08838-1. Stock, J. R., (1995). Advancing Logistics Research and Thoughts Through the "Borrowing" of Theories From Other Disciplines: Some "Old" Ideas Whose Time Have Come. Proceedings of the Twenty Fourth Annual Transportation and Logistics Educators Conferance, San Diego, California, October 8. Werr, A., Stjernberg, T., Dochrty, P., (1996). The Functions and Tools in the Work of Management Consultants. IMIT Working Paper 96:86.

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