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| LOGI0012-1 | Logistics and transportation
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Performance Management and Control, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Financial Engineering, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Management Engineering, professional Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Intrapreneurship, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Modelisation and Technologies, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Supply Chain Management, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focusin Performance Management Systems, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Sabine Limbourg |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester |
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Course contents :
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| Today, a firm can't be competitive without a good transportation and logistics network. Our goal is to understand the role and importance of transportation in the supply chain and in the economy. An overview of the different transportation modes: Road, Rail, Sea, Air, Pipeline and Intermodal transportation, allows supply chain manager to be aware of the performance of these different transportation modes in terms of costs, responsiveness, land use and environment. This course also treats the fundamental topics of transportation such as transport contracts, transport insurances, the incoterms, the cold chain, constraints related to the transport of dangerous goods and customs.
After these considerations, freight transport will be modelized using traditional four-step transportation planning model, consisting of trip generation, trip distribution, modal split, and assignment stages. This last step involves fundamental network flow problems such as the shortest path problem. The traffic congestion problem, the transport mode choice decisions and the impacts of transport infrastructure will be especially highlighted. Several case studies are analyzed. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| Understand the importance of transport in the overall Supply Chain performance
Introduce the different modes of transportation and the differences in managing each.
Knowledge of steps necessary and data required to complete a long-range transportation plan.
Give students the opportunity to describe, analyze, and recommend improvements in selecting and managing appropriate transportation modes.
Resolve problems inherent in transportation management.
Ability to make tradeoffs with multiple factors in project planning and design
Understand the impact of the global economy, politics and the environment on transport management.
Exchange ideas with industry guest speakers when available.
Understand and be capable of using modelization methods when seeking a solution for a concrete transportation problem
Provide concrete solutions to a transportation problem.
Acquire some skills of an international executive: work within a team, demonstrate a sense of synthesis and communicate in writing |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Basic notions of mathematics and statistics
Ability to follow algorithmic instructions |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Methodology used:
Lectures
Readings
Discussions
Exercise sessions
Group projects
General planning of the course:
Second semester |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Available documents on the virtual campus Lol@:
1. Slides
2. Exercises and solutions
Recommended references:
[1] Coyle, Bardi, and Novack: Transportation, 6th edition, Thompson south Wetern publishing, 2006
[2] Hazen and Lynch: The role of transportation in the Supply Chain, CFL Publishing 2008
[3] Ortúzar and Willumsen: Modelling Transport, Wiley; 3d edition 2001
[4] Chambre de commerce internationale, Incoterms 2010: ICC rules for the use of domestic and international trade terms |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| First session
Group projects (20%)
Written exam (80%)
Relative weight of individual assessment: 80%
Second session
Written exam (100%) |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Sabine LIMBOURG
Building N1, Room 337
sabine.limbourg@ulg.ac.be |
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| Items online : |
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| http://lola.hec.ulg.ac.be |
| You can find the necessary material. |
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