20801666 - GOODS TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS

THE COURSE WANTS TO PROVIDE ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF LOGISTICS SYSTEMS WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO TRANSPORT OF GOODS. THE DEVELOPED TOPICS WILL BE: THE EVOLUTION OF LOGISTICS INDUSTRY, THE PROBLEM OF LOCATION, SIZING AND OPTIMIZATION OF LOGISTIC INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNICAL RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT MODELS FOR SUPPLYING THE DEMAND FOR FREIGHT TRANSPORT WITH DIFFERENT TRANSPORT MODES. THE COURSE STRUCTURE PROVIDES A GENERAL OVERVIEW, THE ANALYSIS OF SOME ISSUES OF PARTICULAR RELEVANCE WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF EXPERTS, VISITS TO PLANTS AND SOLVING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS THROUGH LABORATORY EXERCISES
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Programme

Industrial logistic trends and problems (demand forecast, site optimization, stock management, service level)
Goods transport at international, national and company level
A solution of transport for each problem
Types of companies involved
The way of containerization
Vehicle Routing Problem
The intermodal transports (road, railway, ship) and the transhipment
The intermodal structures and global flows of goods
City logistics
Energy and environmental aspects of freight transport


Core Documentation

«Business logistics/supply chain management» Ronald H. Ballou, Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (August 21, 2003)
«Logistics and supply chain management» Martin Kristopher, Publisher: FT Press; 4 edition (January 6, 2011)
«Modelli e metodi per l’organizzazione dei Sistemi logistici», G. Ghiani, R. Musmanno, Editore: Pitagora (31 ottobre 2000)
«Orientare al successo la supply chain», S.Cavalieri, R.Pinto, Editore: ISEDI; 2 edizione (1 aprile 2015)
«Handbook of Logistics and supply chain Management» (Handbooks in Transport), Editore: Pergamon (1 Jun. 2001) (1705)
«Supply chain Logistics management», D. Bowersox, D. Closs and M. Bixby Cooper, Mc Graw-Hill
Mc Graw Hill «Fundamental of logistics management», by D. M. Lambert, J.R. Stock, L. M. Ellram, Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co
F.Dallari «Corso di Logistica e Trasporti» Hoepli