Logistics and Supply Chain Innovations

This course contains logistical, supply chain and innovations in logistics and supply chain topics.

Logistics Topics:

• The significance of the logistics system(s) of companies in supply chains;

• Methods for analyzing logistics systems of companies;

• The role of production in logistics systems of companies;

• The role of inventories in logistics systems of companies;

• The role of transport between logistics systems of companies;

• Connecting purchasing and customer service within companies;

• Value added logistics, outsourcing and third party logistics;

• Performance measurement in logistics systems;

• Logistics control and information systems;

• Design of logistics networks and determining locations for distribution centers.

Supply Chain Topics:

• Global trade lanes, industrial clusters and supply chains;

• Strategy issues and the supply chain;

• Organizational issues and supply chains;

• Supply Chain Mapping, Bench-marking and the SCOR-reference model;

• Physical and Virtual Value Systems (MRP-I, MRP-II, ERP, and APS);

• Supply Chain Value Adding Processes;

• Distributions and Supply Chain Resilience;

• Sustainability (triple P) within the supply chain;

• Lean and Agile Supply Chains;

• International Collaboration (Supply Chain Partnerships en Alliances);

• Supply Chain Analysis;

• Supply Chain Design.

Innovations in Logistics and Supply Chain Management:

• The Last-Mile of Supply Chains;

• Multi-, and Omni Channel Supply Chains;

• Synchromodal Logistics, Synchro Supply Chains and the Physical Internet;

• Customs Processes and Trade Compliance;

• Orchestration and the application of Cross Chain Control Centers (4C);

• Service Logistics (Asset Management, Maintenance Management and spare parts logistics);

• Greening the Supply Chain, Circularity and Closed-Loop Supply Chains;

• Smart Supply Chains (Automation, the Internet of Things and AI-applications);

• Supply Chain Finance (Strategic Profit Model, Product Portfolio's and Resilience);

• Transparency in Supply Chains (Smart Contracts, and Block Chains Technology);

• Alternative Organized Supply Chains (especially: Distributed Autonomous Organizations as part of Supply Chains).