Subject: Commerce
Credit units: 3
Offered: Term 1 only
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
College: Edwards School of Business
Department: Finance and Management Science

Logistics management involves key tasks such as the transportation, storage and control of raw materials, supplies, and finished goods and is a vital component of supply chain management. Today's global supply chains face numerous logistical hurdles, increasing the need for skilled professionals who are essential to handle the complexities of modern systems and leverage advanced technologies for greater efficiency and innovation. This course reviews several past and current evolutions as well as future trends in the field of logistics management. Through interactive sessions, case studies, and discussions, participants will receive a rigorous guide to the frameworks successful managers utilize for logistics challenges in the real world, including: cost/benefit and trade-off analysis of logistical solutions; benefits of outsourcing and guidelines for choosing a logistics provider; modeling diverse logistics problems from a supply chain management point of view; and introducing the different approaches of solving and interpreting the built models.

Permission of the department is required.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 205.3
Restrictions Restricted to students in the Edwards School of Business.

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