Course Contents

Basic Modules                                                                                                               

Module 1: Business Engineering   
Innovative business models, strategic management and benchmarking, general accounting principles, fundamentals of corporate finance

Module 2: Information Management                                                                                 
Logistics Information Systems (LIS), Strategies for Implementing Data Mining to Enhance Logistics Intelligence, New trends in information technology, Information Technologies Service Management (ITSM)

Module 3:  Statistics for Logistics                                                                                       
Measurement and describing data, Basic probability distributions, Parametric and Non-parametric statistics, Elementary forecasting techniques, Multi-criteria Decision Making

Module 4:  Modelling Transport and Logistics Systems                                                     
Optimization with constraints: Linear Programming and Mixed Integer Programming, Sensitivity analysis. Network Flow Models: Linear models of network flows, Introduction to graph theory, Basic network flow problems: TSP, routing problems, pick-up and delivery problems, problems with time windows. Basic heuristics for solutions. Robust Optimization Techniques

WCTRS Modules                                                                                                                

Module 5: Concepts, Notions, and Challenges                                                                         
Introduction to Logistics, Logistics Systems, E-Logistics: Logistics Information Systems, Sustainable logistics 

Module 6: Production, Trade and Logistics                                                                         
Trends in Production and SCM, Drivers and Barriers to International Trade and SCM, Trends affecting Logistics and Transport Services 

Module 7: Customer oriented Logistics Service Design                                           
Understanding Logistics Systems, Transport & Logistics Service Design, Decision Problems in Transport Service Design, Design of Synchromodal Logistics Systems 

Module 8: Pricing, Finance and Integrated Decision Making                 
Product and pricing policy, financial risk calculus: Activities exposed to risk, estimation of probabilities and expected value of damage, integrated decision making, multi-criteria decision making and cost-benefit analysis for logistics and transport decisions. Evidence-based decision making.