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Freight Transport Logistics

Course Leader: Dr Dewan Islam
Semester: 1 Course
Duration: 2 weeks
Credit Value: 10 CATS (5 ECTS)
Course fee: £1125

Aims

  • To provide students with a comprehensive overview of the main issues related to the increasingly important fields of freight transport, logistics and supply chain management (SCM) and all relevant aspects related to engineering and operations management.

Outline of Syllabus

  • Principles of logistics – introduction, definitions, historical perspective, components of logistics, importance of logistics, logistics and distribution structure;
  • Integrated system concept and integrated logistics, globalisation and international trade, logistics and supply chain management, competitive advantage through logistics and 'SCM';
  • Channels of distribution, channel type and structure, channel selection criteria, logistics service providers, own account transport service, third party logistics service, importance of INCOTERMS;
  • The importance of customer service, components of customer service, conceptual models of service quality, developing a customer service policy, levels of customer service, measuring customer service, the customer service explosion;
  • Challenges for logistics, supply, distribution, retailing, internet and home shopping, securing issues versus efficient logistics, ecommerce;
  • Logistics process, importance of logistics process, key logistics process, benchmarking, steps, format and approaches of benchmarking;
  • Transport, modes of transport, operational factors, transport mode characteristics, advantage and disadvantages of different modes of transport, ISO containers, swap bodies;
  • Green logistics, transferring freight to greener modes, city logistics, last mile distribution, citizen and customer demand;
  • Invited speakers’ session on contemporary issues and challenges;
  • Fuel management for fleet managers and drivers; drivers training, drivers language
  • Reverse logistics - why, waste production and management, examples of waste
  • management and initiatives in different European cities.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

  • Principles of freight transport, logistics and supply chain management ;
  • Integrated system concept of transport chain, logistics and supply chain management;
  • Alternative channels of freight distribution; main/alternative actors of freight transport services;
  • Customers of freight transport and logistics, knowing and meeting their requirements;
  • Logistics process design and benchmarking logistics;
  • Transport modes and their characteristics: who is good for what and why;
  • Green logistics and necessity of modal shift and city logistics;
  • Fuel management; its importance and actors
  • Reverse and waste logistics and waste management.
  • Contemporary challenges for transport and logistics service providers and users;

Intended Skill Outcomes

  • Understand and evaluate freight transport logistics systems, transport modes, alternative options and actors;
  • Understand and determine the requirements of freight transport logistics customers;
  • Understand and evaluate contemporary issues, factors and challenges related to freight transport and logistics;
  • Understand and evaluate the elements/factors of freight transport operation and importance of fuel management.
  • Understand and design modern logistics process, performance evaluation, city logistics and last mile solutions

Teaching methods

  • Lectures;
  • small-group teaching;
  • student-led group activity;
  • independent study.

Assessment methods

  • written examination (70%);
  • oral presentation (15%);
  • case study (15%).