Content:

Characteristics of global trade

• Incoterms
• Customs clearance, documents and export control

Global transport and shipping

• Maritime transport, esp. container handling
• Air transport

Modeling of supply chains

• SCOR model
• Value stream analysis

Location planning in cross-border-networks

• Application of the Warehouse Location Problem
• Transport Planning

Inventory Management in global supply chains

• Stock keeping policies
• Inventory management considering lead time and shipping costs

Media:

presentations, black board

Workload:

regular attendance: 21 hours
self-study: 99 hours

Students are able to:

• assign basic problems of planning and operation of global supply chains and plan them with apropriate methods,
• describe requirements and characteristics of global trade and transport, and
• evaluate characteristics of the design from logistic chains regarding their suitability.

Exam:

The exam consists of a 60 minutes written examination (according to §4(2), 1 of the examination regulation).

The main exam is offered every summer semester. A second date for the exam is offered in winter semester only for students that did not pass the main exam.

Weiterführende Literatur:

• Arnold/Isermann/Kuhn/Tempelmeier. HandbuchLogistik, Springer Verlag, 2002 (Neuauflage in Arbeit)
• Domschke. Logistik, Rundreisen und Touren,Oldenbourg Verlag, 1982
• Domschke/Drexl. Logistik, Standorte, OldenbourgVerlag, 1996
• Gudehus. Logistik, Springer Verlag, 2007
• Neumann-Morlock. Operations-Research,Hanser-Verlag, 1993
• Tempelmeier. Bestandsmanagement in SupplyChains, Books on Demand 2006
• Schönsleben. IntegralesLogistikmanagement, Springer, 1998