COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TRANSPORTATION AND SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEMS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IND 5030 TRANSPORTATION AND SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEMS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BILGE BILGEN

Offered to

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
Industrial Engineering - Thesis (English) (Evening Program)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - NON THESIS (ENGLISH)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING - NON THESIS (EVENING PROGRAM) (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

The aim is to provide to the students basic knowledge on logistics and supply chain management systems, and to Improve the students knowledge and Professional skills on analyzing, designing and modeling logistics systems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   An ability to define the basic functions of supply chain management.
2   An ability to manage the planning activities in a supply chain, analyze supply chain systems, and design new supply chain systems.
3   An abilty utilize analytical methods to solve real life supply chain optimization problems.
4   An ability to use an integrated systems view to identify and model problems in logistics systems.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Supply Chain Management
2 Designing the Supply Chain Network
3 Designing the Supply Chain Network
4 Hierarchical Production Planning
5 Warehouse Design and Management
6 Transportation in Supply Chain Management
7 Planning and Managing Long-Haul Freight Transportation
8 Planning and Managing Short-Haul Freight Transportation
9 Coordinated Supply Chain Management
10 Exam
11 Project Presentations
12 Project Presentations
13 Project Presentations
14 Project Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control, Gianpaolo Ghiani, Gilbert Laporte, Roberto Musmanno, John Wiley & Sons, 2004
Logistics Systems Analysis, Daganzo, Carlos F., 4th edition, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The presentations which are prepared by using books, articles and proceedings as well as class board will be used in the scope of the course programme.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.35 + PRJ * 0.15 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.35 + PRJ * 0.15 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

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
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 40 40
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 211

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.122515
LO.232121
LO.333122
LO.42211

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