COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WAREHOUSING AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DLU 7026 WAREHOUSING AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Logistics and Maritime Transport Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR OKAN TUNA

Offered to

Logistics and Maritime Transport Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

To be informed about warehouse and inventory management cases, to be able to reach current progressions related to warehousing systems, to be able to interpret these cases.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand technical concept related to inventory and storing.
2   To learn the role of warehouse in supply chain management.
3   To determine optimum order quantity in inventory management.
4   To learn warehouse equipment and vehicles and warehouse design principles.
5   To learn warehouse process.
6   To have ability of following new developments in warehouse systems considering Information Sciences.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Warehouse Management
2 Warehouse Processes
3 Warehouse Design
4 Warehouse costs and performance
5 Inventory Management
6 Inventory Management
7 Inventory Management
8 Mid-Term
9 Current Technics in warehousing
10 Process Improvement in Warehouse
11 Health and Safety Management in Warehouse
12 Warehousing in production operations
13 Warehouse Project Management
14 Project studies
15 Presentation
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Hompel ten, M. , Schmidt, T. , Warehouse Management, Springer, 2007
Essentials of Inventory Management, Max Muler, Second Edition, American Management Association, 2011.
Mulcahy, D.E., Sydow, A Supply Chain Logistics Program for warehouse management, 2008.
BARTHOLDI J.J., HACKMAN, S.T. Warehouse and Distribution Science, 2017

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Literature review, case studies, problem analysis, technical warehouse visits.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Oral and written competencies regarding the use of knowledge, abilities and skills in the field of Warehousing and Inventory Management in terms of research, investigation and evaluation will be evaluated.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation about subject 13 3 39
Developing the project 0 3 0
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing report 1 5 5
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

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