production- and logistics management

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Herbert Meyr

The increasing division of labour and globalization of the economy leads to increasing networking companies through goods and information flows. Operating these flows as well as organizing the networks between the companies is the task of industrial logistics. Thereby, the production as core functionality of an industrial firm with transport and storage processes has to be integrated in the logistical total system.

In this learning unit, participants should deal with negative aspects and impacts of logistical trends and concepts, as for instance the Just-in-time-Principle and the Supply Chain Management. They will get to know organizational forms of purchase, production and distribution such as the tasks and methods of production- and operation planning, the inventory management and the transport planning. On the basis of Logistics Software, especially Advanced-Planning-Systems (APS), opportunities and barriers of modern Logistics Planning Symstems are illustrated in case studies.