Logistics and Supply Chain Management (EPS 203)

Course Load/Credits: 120 hours/8,0.

Content:
Broad vision of Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Service Level; Inventory Management; Transportation; Demand and Bullwhip effect; Serial supply chains (Several Products and Locations); Distribution system; Assembly systems; Supply chain strategies (postponement, transshipments, transaction costs and supplier selection); Collaboration in Supply chain; Uncertainty in supply chain; Urban Logistics.

Bibliography:
1 - BALLOU, Ronald H. Business Logistics Management. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall. 5a. edição, 2004.
2 - BOWERSOX, D. J.; CLOSS, D. J. Logistical Management: The Integreted Supply Chain Process. New York: Mcgraw-hill, 1996. 729 p
3 - SIMCHI-LEVI, David, Xin Chen, and Julien Bramel. The Logic of Logistics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications for Logistics Management, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004.
4 - SILVER, Edward A., DAVID F. Pike, and ReinPETERSON. Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling, 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 1998
5 - ZIPKIN, P.H. Foundations of Inventory Management, McGraw-Hill,New York, 2000.
6 - REISMAN, A. How can OR/MS educators benefit from creating and using taxonomies. INFORMS Transactions on Education, V.4, N.3, Maio 2004.