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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Julián Horrillo Tello

Trimester: Second term

Credits: 4

Teaching staff: 

Pau Palacios Vilajuana

Skills

Specific skills

  • CE19: Manage the logistics of the production process: stock management, production planning and production scheduling and control systems.

Transversal competences

  • CT1: That the students know a third language, which will preferably be English, at an adequate level orally and in writing and in accordance with the needs of graduates in each degree.

  • CT2: That students have the ability to work as members of an interdisciplinary team either as another member, or performing management tasks in order to contribute to developing projects with pragmatism and a sense of responsibility, assuming commitments taking into account the available resources.

Description

Subject framed in the matter of direction of operations. The course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts, principles and foundations of business logistics especially in terms of logistics networks, purchasing and supplier management, and advanced models for inventory management. Finally, the main digital technologies for logistics management are presented, which take us to the concepts of smart warehouses and smart logistics.

 

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student must be able to:

 

  • LO1: Recognize the parameters and elements that define the management of the supply chain (DE 19).
  • LO2: Apply the methods, techniques and instruments for the management and design of warehouses, as well as the planning and control of material flow in a production plant and the techniques, instruments and simulators for the design and management of supply routes. , storage and distribution (CE 19).
  • LO6: Identify the elements and variables for justifying supply, production, storage and distribution plans (EC 19).
  • LO9: Use techniques and tools to design a manufacturing plan at its different levels: aggregate planning, manufacturing master plan and calculation of material needs (CE 19).
  • LO12: Distinguish between the principles of application of MRP and MRP II (EC 19).
  • LO14: Recognize the main computer and communication technologies used in the management of the logistics chain, and in corporate information systems in general (EC 19).

Working methodology

- Master classes to develop the theoretical contents of the subject

- Laboratory sessions, in small groups, to work in a practical way the main concepts of the subject

- Individual and group exercises

Contents

Content title 1: Introduction to the logistics function

Dedication: 26

Large Group: 8

Small Group: 2

Independent learning: 16

Description
  • Company value chain. The logistics chain
  • Logistics strategies. Logistics networks
  • Location decisions
  • Cross docking
  • New technologies for logistics. Smart Logistics

Related activities

Practice 1, Final work
       

 

Content title 2: Supply chain management

Dedication: 24

Large Group: 6  

Small Group: 4

Autonomous learning: 12    

Description
  • Supplier intelligence
  • Purchasing, supply and distribution management.
  • Trade negotiation strategy.
  • Internal logistics in the industrial company
  • Logistics costs
  • Reverse logistics

Related activities

Practice 2 and Practice 3
       

 

Content title 3: Advanced stock management

Dedication: 26

Large Group: 8 

Small Group: 2 

Autonomous learning: 16   

Description
  • Concept and type of inventory
  • Inventory valuation
  • Advanced models for inventory management:  

Related activities

Practice 4, Final work
       

 

Content title 4: Information systems for logistics management

Dedication: 12

Large Group: 4     

Small Group: 0

Autonomous learning: 8   

Description
  • ERP: MRP II, MRP
  • Supply Chain Management (SCM)
  • e-procurement
  • Introduction to warehouse management

Related activities

 

Learning activities

- Attendance to theory sessions

- Practical activities: developed in a laboratory with the aim of working at a practical level the theoretical contents of the subject

- Solving exercises

Evaluation system

  • Attendance at the theoretical and laboratory sessions, and the delivery of the corresponding reports of the practicals and the final work is a necessary condition for the evaluation of the subject.

 

  • It will be up to the teachers of the subject to decide on the possibility of adding activities that allow the recovery of the suspended activities.

 

  • Completion of all activities is mandatory to obtain the final grade of the subject. The grade calculation algorithm is only applied if the weighted average grade of practicals is equal to or higher than 4, the weighted average grade of exams is equal to or higher than 4 and the weighted average grade of assignments is equal to or higher a 4. Otherwise the subject remains suspended.

 

  • The make-up exam only gives the option to pass the subject with a grade of 5. The make-up exam only gives the option to make up the grade corresponding to the exams, in no case for the practicals and assignments.

ACTIVITIES

PES discipline

EXAMS

50%

WORKS

20%

WORK EXPERIENCE

30%

REFERENCES

Basic

Ballou, Ronald H. (2004). Logistics. Supply chain management. Ed. Pearson, Prentice Hall

Langevin, André; Riopel; Diane (2005). Logistics Systems: Design and Optimization. Ed. Springer.

Ghian, Gianpaolo et al. (2004). Introduction to Logistics Systems. Planning and Control. Ed. Wiley.

Chopra, S., & Meindl, P. (2016). Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation. (6th ed.) Pearson Education.

Velasco Sánchez, J. (2013). Logistics management in the company. Pyramid.

Ballou, Ronald H. (1991). Business logistics. Ed. Díaz de Santos.

Guasch Petit, J; Piera, MA; Figueras Jové, J; Casanovas, J. (2009). Modeling and simulation: Application to logistics processes of manufacturing and services. Politex.

Complementary

Russell, RS and Taylor, BW (2014). Operations and Supply Chain Management, 8th Edition, Wiley.

Chase, Aquilano & Jacobs. (2014). Production and Operations Management. (13th ed.) Mexico: McGraw Hill.

Krajewski, LJ, Ritzman, LP and Malhotra, MK. (2013). Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains: Global Edition. Ed. Pearson.