Op­er­a­tions and Lo­gist­ics Man­age­ment

Course content

The course objective is to provide the students with an understanding of how the principles, theories and concepts of operations and logistics management can be used to improve operational effectiveness within the shipping industry. The task of managing a firm involves making tradeoffs among a range of interrelated decisions that have a major impact on performance. This task is key for any organization and is what Operations Management is concerned with - the activity of managing the resources of the organization that deliver goods and services. Logistics management deals with the supply chain that plans, implements and controls the flow and storage of goods, products and services, and related information to meet customers’ needs.  

The course will discuss various themes and problems involving strategic as well as operational and logistics managerial activities such as (but not limited to):  

• Introduction to Operations and Logistics Management
• Operations and logistics strategy
• Performance objectives
• Product and service innovation
• Managing capacity
• Managing supplier relationships
• Transportations operations
• Planning and managing inventory
• Lean operations
• Quality management
• Supply chain integration
• Port operations
• Human resources in operations and logistics