Logistics and Supply Chain Management is an area that is rapidly gaining importance and focus as businesses address the challenge of meeting increasingly demanding customer expectations globally. There has been a growth in interest in how organisations manage the flows into, within, and out of their enterprises and recognition that this fundamentally affects their competitive position. In an increasingly competitive marketplace those organisations that appropriately embrace logistics and supply chain management rationale will strengthen their ability to compete successfully. This unit aims to enable you to have a sound understanding of the various dimensions of the complex and dynamic subject of logistics and supply chain management, and to critically examine the key issues of contemporary developments and practices in logistics, supply chain management and other related areas, and solve practical problems creatively by using relevant and well researched theoretical concepts and frameworks. This unit, in particular, will concentrate on contemporary developments within the topic area and the increasing integration between the three highly related areas of logistics management, supply chain management, and operations management. It will consider the ways in which these developments are expanding and challenging the traditionally accepted roles and objectives of these functions and how integration can contribute to enhanced competitive advantage for organisations as well explore the current trends and research in the areas of developing sustainable supply chains and technological innovations that reform Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Course Details

• Logistics and supply chain management – Overview and sustainable strategy • Organisational, environmental and managerial Issues in logistics and supply chain management • Demand management, order management and customer care • Inventory management, warehousing and distribution management • Outsourcing and third-party logistics • Information technologies and supply chain management • Sustainable transportation systems and transportation management • International logistics and supply chain management; challenges and opportunities