Logistics and Supply chain management research course

Course Name: PhD course in Logistics Management
Subject: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Marking scale: Pass/failed

Prerequisites:
Admitted as a PhD student in subjects related to value, logistics and supply chain management including waste management.

Objective:
The course deals with logistics management issues in the product supply chain. The focus will be on logistics in food and agricultural chains, and related logistics issues such as biomass logistics chain, and reverse logistics. The logistics management will be viewed from its historical development, state-of-the-art, and its increasing importance in the globalized marketing systems. After completing the course, students should be able to:

• analyse and critically evaluate logistics management and its elements in the context of international scientific literature
• describe and analyse management related issues
• develop effective and efficient logistics chain models for specific chains
• utilize tools such as GIS for logistics management purposes
• carry out independently a logistics management related individual project where tools (eg GIS) will be applied