1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
3. winter term 2023/2024
4. Management and Production Engineering - First-cycle studies leading to Engineer's degree
5. Production Logistics

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Production Logistics - course description

Aim of the course

The main learning outcome will be to learn about the essence of logistics management in a company in the area of production and about production methods and models.

Prerequisites

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Production and service management.

Scope

Lecture:

W1: Definitions of logistics, enterprise logistics management process, identification of enterprise processes, logistics network - constraining conditions, objective function.

W2: Logistics system, enterprise logistics system, logistics system vs. logistics process, logistics chain, types of processes, types of production.

W3: Warehouse logistics - minimum ordering level, warehouse control (indicators), FIFO method, LIFO, average cost method.

W4-5: Production logistics: production function, production elasticity, Cobb-Douglas function, CES function, Zellner and Revankar function.

W6: Production optimisation, Gozinto graph.

W7: ERP information systems - MRP, MRP II, ERP, ERP II. Trends in the development of integrated management systems, examples of applications.

W8: New trends in logistics: e-business, B2B, B2C, virtual enterprise.

Project:

P1-2: Spatial planning of production

P3: Designing a logistics network - determining limiting conditions, objective functions

P4-6: Determination of optimum order levels, controlling in the warehouse - calculation of ratios, inventory valuation methods in the warehouse - FIFO method, LIFO, average cost method, MRP calculation, linear correlation of one variable as a forecasting method, least squares method

P7: Test  

P8-10: The production function, the Cobb-Douglas function, other forms of the production function, the Gozinto graph

P11-13: The task of production optimisation

P14: Test

P15: New trends in logistics: e-business, B2B, B2C, virtual enterprise.it and services.

Teaching methods

Conventional lecture. Project.

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Lecture: Written examination preceded by a pass mark in the exercises.
Project: Obtaining positive marks from two written colloquia and the activity on the project.

Final evaluation: The final grade for the course is the arithmetic mean of the grades for the individual forms of the course.

Recommended reading

1. A. Rushton,P. Croucher,P. Baker, The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management. Understanding the Supply Chain, Kogan Page Publishers, 2022
2. C. B. Bozarth, R. B. Handfield, Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management (What's New in Operations Management) 5th Edition, Pearson, 2019
3. M. Goetschalckx, Supply Chain Engineering, Springer US, 2011
4. N. Chandrasekaran, Supply Chain Management Process, Function & System Supply Chain Management, Oxford University Press, 2010
5. A. Iyer, S. Seshadri, R. Vasher, Toyota Supply Chain Management: A Strategic Approach to Toyota's Renowned System, McGraw-Hill Education, 2009
6. M. Christopher: Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2005
7. G.A., Cole: Management – Theory and Practice, DP Publications Ltd., London 2002.
8. S. Chopra, P. Meindl: Supply Chain Management. Strategy, Planning and Operation, Prentice Hall, New Jeresy 2001
9. R.H. Ballu: Business logistics management, Prentice Hall, New Jersey 1999

Further reading

1. Szymonik A., Logistyka produkcji, Difin, 2012
2. Fertsch M., Cyplik P., Hadaś Ł. [red.], Logistyka produkcji. Teoria i praktyka, ILiM, Poznań 2010

Notes

Modified by dr Katarzyna Skrzypek (last modification: 19-04-2023 17:56)