BUSI 3630U – Logistics in the Supply Chain

Logistics is the area of the supply chain that deals directly with customers and customer satisfaction. This course covers issues which are critical to supply chain performance as perceived by the customer, including finished goods inventory planning, transportation industry cost and performance structure, and other third party logistics services, especially warehousing, information technology, and integrated logistics services. Order fulfilment process and the role of internal supply chain functions; measurement issues and practices in the supply chain; transportation cost drivers and structure of the transportation industry; other cost drivers within the supply chain (such as warehousing); planning the logistics network using operations research tools; operations issues for logistics with an emphasis on logistics procedures and legalities; third party logistics and outsourcing; logistics decision support systems and current and best practices in logistics.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BUSI 2603U