Logistics
MODULE: Logistics
Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 36 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.
DESCRIPTION:
This program addresses today's complexity of logistics. Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and occasionally security. Logistics is a key link of the supply chain which adds the value of time and place utility.
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).
Retailing & Channels of Distribution
Operations Planning & Control Supplier Quality Management Transportation & Logistics Manufacturing Systems Integration Supply Chain Management Occupational Safety & Health Logistics Security Management Automation Management Operations Management Total Quality Management
Academic Supervisor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez
More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.
* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.
* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.
* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.
* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.
* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.
* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.
BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.
Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):
Retailing & Channels of Distribution
This course explains the structure of institutions in the channel of distribution, including retailers, wholesalers, and agent middlemen. It examines the organization and appraisal of middleman functions, including inventory and price policies, trade sales promotion, franchising, and other vertical marketing systems. It also focuses on areas in which retailers, wholesalers, and agent middlemen can maximize profit opportunities.
Instructor: Alvaro Venegas Zamorano
Operations Planning & Control
This course addresses the need for planning and control in operations management. It shows how to identify operations problems and how and use software tools and new technologies to implement solutions. Operations problems covered are demand forecasting, aggregate planning and scheduling, material requirements, just-in-time systems, facility location, inventory planning, and personnel scheduling.
Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez
Supplier Quality Management
This course reviews supplier quality assurance principles and techniques stressing the methods for obtaining quality products and services from suppliers. It discusses supplier evaluation and selection, communication of quality requirements, legal aspects, performance measurements and solving supplied item quality problems.
Instructor: Fouad A. Assaf
Transportation & Logistics
This course emphasizes the optimization of managing, planning and controlling all the steps of the transportation process from supplier to customer. It covers various transportation modes, tactical and strategic uses of freight consolidation, warehousing operations, and international shipping. It deals with the logistics choices and decisions on strategic, tactical and operational levels.
Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez
Manufacturing Systems Integration
This course explains the need for the integration of manufacturing systems, and deals with the multitude of practical problems involved with it. Engineering details covered include the types of communication links available between systems, communication standards, and hardware platform alternatives. Management concepts covered include the top-down design/bottom-up implementation approach to system integration, long-range planning and management of integration projects, security issues, and human factors.
Instructor: Earle Taylor
Supply Chain Management
This course focuses on the analysis and management of material and information flows throughout the supply chain, including aspects of product design and configuration, inventory modeling and planning, network configuration, and supply channel flow management and forecasting.
Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez
Occupational Safety & Health
This course explores specific hazards associated with major industries. Machine guarding, electrical safety, systems safety analysis, materials handling, and working at heights are among the subjects covered. It examines methods of integrating safety and industrial hygiene programs with industrial operations. Philosophic issues related to industrial safety and health such as responsibility for safety, dependency on safe practice, and hierarchy of prevention are investigated.
Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán
Logistics
This program addresses today's complexity of logistics. Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources between the point of origin and the point of consumption. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging, and occasionally security.
Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez
Security Management
This course reviews the issues in business and organizational security management. It examines the challenges embodied in various aspects of physical, personnel, and information security. Loss prevention and the protection of assets are also considered. It explores the history, legal foundations, functions, operations, processes, and tools of security management and computer security.
Instructor: Timothy Kiambi Maburi
Automation Management
This course is an evolutionary process perspective on technology strategy, automation and innovation. It covers managing innovation, technology life cycles, forecasting, and managing R&D, personnel and projects, to emerge with the knowledge of how to integrate technology and automation to further develop the firm's technological competencies and capabilities. It also covers current methods, tooling and associated equipment that is used for automated processes in industry today.
Instructor: Earle Taylor
Operations Management
This course provides an analytical approach to solving problems in production and operations management. It examines quantitative methods for designing and analyzing manufacturing operations, simulation of manufacturing operations, and recent issues in manufacturing including just-in-time production, synchronous manufacturing, and agile manufacturing. It also covers current competitiveness-enhancing techniques like continuous improvement, benchmarking, and business process re-engineering.
Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez Gonzalez
Total Quality Management
This course discusses how quality can be achieved in all areas of an organization, including design, production, marketing, customer services and personnel. It examines of how firms create value through quality and how decisions in the areas of capacity, facilities, technology, vertical integration, workforce, quality, production planning, materials control and organization influence a firm's ability to add value.
Instructor: Wolf Dettmer
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