3 credits
Fall 2026 Lecture Upper Division
The course familiarizes students with main concepts and models of business logistics management. Through the course, students develop an ability to design, improve, and manage logistics operations such as Inventory, Transportation, Warehousing, and Logistics Network Design. Since logistics decisions often require certain trade-offs to be made, students develop necessary quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to improve their decision-making. At the end of the course, students should be able to analyze logistics strategy of a firm, identify problems and tradeoffs in different logistics functions, formulate the corresponding models, identify quantitative methods to solve it, obtain results and interpret them for small-size problems using standard spreadsheet software, communicate the results to a broader audience using business language, discuss issues and challenges in same-day delivery, humanitarian logistics, physical internet.
Learning Outcomes1Know vocabulary of Logistics, and Supply Chain.
2Design, improve and manage processes by learning decision making tools.
3Become familiar with the key issues and problems facing an operations manager.
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made by Purdue students.