Logistics and Simulations | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Logistics and Simulations (17.M308)

Native organizations units: Department of Mechanization and Design Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Mechanization and Construction Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Projektovanje i ispitivanje mašina i konstrukcija, transportna tehnika i logistika
ECTS	5

Acquiring knowledge about: the concept, significance and role of logistics; structure and tasks of the logistics system and selected logistics processes; concept, significance and possibilities of computer simulations in the planning, organization and optimization of logistics systems.

Students acquire basic knowledge in various fields of logistics: procurement, warehousing, material handling, production, distribution and return logistics. Parallel to this, basic knowledge about simulations of material flows in logistic systems. Acquired knowledge can be used in practice for the design, organization and optimization of logistics systems and processes.

Logistics, basic aspects, structure and processes. Logistics in procurement, goods transport and distribution. Production logistics. Logistics of warehouses, processes, equipment, information systems. Reverse logistics. Logistics costs. Providers of logistics services. Designing, organizing and optimizing logistic systems and processes using computer simulations.

Lectures and computer exercises. During the whole semester, students have lectures in the theory of logistics and simulation and computational exercises from material flow simulations in logistic systems. Students are required to prepare a simulation model of a logistic system as an independent project, by the end of the semester.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Yildiz, T.	Business Logistics	2014	Charleston SC	English
Christopher, M.	Logistics and supply chain management	2005	Financial Times Prentice Hall	English
Bloomberg, D.	Logistics	2002	Prentice Hall	English
Myerson, P.A.	Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management	2012	McGraw-Hill Education	English
Simchi-Levi, D., Chen, X.	The Logic of Logistics	2013	Springer	English
Reveillac, J.M.	Optimization tools for logistics	2015	Iste Press	English
Lu M., De Bock J. (Eds.)	Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains	2016	Springer	English