LSCM 3100 - Principles of Logistics

Description

This course is an introduction to logistics and transportation services. The course examines the areas of customer service, distribution operations, purchasing, order processing, facility design and operations, carrier selection, transportation costing, and negotiation.

Learning Objectives

• Distinguish the role logistics plays in the supply chain
• Examine logistics and transportation principles
• Analyze modes of transportation and investigate the utilization of transportation
• Formulate market structures within transportation industry
• Examine the affects of transportation on price of goods, services, and market areas.
• Critique logistics and/or transportation management issues
• Compare and contrast in-house and outsourced transportation operations
• Distinguish port operations and compare/contrast different operations between U.S. ports