342-0677/01 – Logistics (Log)
| Gurantor department | Institute of Transport | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Aleš Slíva, Ph.D. Paed.IGIP | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Aleš Slíva, Ph.D. Paed.IGIP |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2018/2019 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FS | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
In the subject of Logistics, students will become familiar with logistics as a field of science with a focus on general logistics specializing in transport and handling in relation to the implementation of Industry 4.0 principles in the form of monitoring, designing and recording the flow of material. The subject is devoted to production strategy, warehouse management in a company, IT technology of traceability of critical parts production with on-line process control and control of limit values of monitored quantities in internal company logistics.
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Summary
The graduate will be able to describe the development and goals of logistics as a scientific discipline and explain the structure of the logistics chain and its active and passive elements. He will be able to design the layout of handling and storage facilities, calculate logistics costs and apply multi-criteria decision-making methods to a logistics problem. He will be able to independently process and defend the solution of assigned tasks in the field of inventory logistics, material movement and palletization and containerization.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Completion of three assignments in the field of logistics and a credit test:
Assignment 1 – Inventory Logistics – maximum 5 points.
Assignment 2 – Material Flow within a Company – maximum 15 points.
Assignment 3 – Transport Logistics: Palletization and Containerization – maximum 15 points.
Examination – written and oral parts.
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Other requirements
Completion of three assignments in the field of logistics and a credit test:
Assignment 1 – Inventory Logistics – maximum 5 points.
Assignment 2 – Material Flow within a Company – maximum 15 points.
Assignment 3 – Transport Logistics: Palletization and Containerization – maximum 15 points.
Examination – written and oral parts.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Origins and development of logistics, objectives and strategies of logistics.
2. Integrated logistics.
3. Logistics chain, active and passive elements of logistics, micrologistics and macrologistics, transport logistics in the context of material handling.
4. Internal and external transport and their specific features, automated and autonomous transport systems.
5. Information technology in logistics, movement of materials in space and time, digitalization of logistics processes, elements of Logistics 4.0, and the use of AI in logistics.
6. Definition of the material handling problem, design of material handling equipment – relationships between sources and consumers.
7. Methods for solving facility layout problems, facility design, simulation and digital modelling.
8. Warehousing, storage systems, automation and robotization of warehouse processes, and AI applications in warehousing.
9. Distribution logistics and its aspects.
10. General business logistics.
11. Logistics costs.
12. Logistics technologies, modern Logistics 4.0 technologies, IoT, AI, and autonomous systems.
13. Multi-criteria decision-making, application of optimization methods and AI for decision support.
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