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Logistics Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Logistics via distance learning
This program addresses the complexity of the contemporary field of logistics. Logistics is defined as the management of goods, information, and other resources flow from its origin to its consumption. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, packaging, and occasionally security. Logistics is a key factor that adds time and space values to the distribution chain.
Academic Supervisor : Wolf Dettmer
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Logistics Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Logistics.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Industrial Engineering - Industrial Production - Maintenance Engineering Management - Occupational Safety & Health - Operations Management - Petroleum & Natural Gas Production - Process Instrumentation Technology - Project Engineering Management - R & D Research & Development - Robotics & Automation - Total Quality Management .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Logistics Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Logistics via distance learning = 36 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Logistics Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Logistics via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Operations Management.
Master's Degree - Logistics Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Logistics via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Operations Management. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Logistics Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Logistics via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Operations Management. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Logistics Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Retailing & Channels of Distribution
This course explains the structure of institutions in the channel of distribution, including retailers, wholesalers, and agent middlemen. It examines the organization and appraisal of middleman functions, including inventory and price policies, trade sales promotion, franchising, and other vertical marketing systems. It also focuses on areas in which retailers, wholesalers, and agent middlemen can maximize profit opportunities.
Academic Supervisor: Thiyagu Nagaraj
Hinterland Transportation
This course analyzes hinterland transportation models from a technical as well as from an economic approach. In the past, seaports have been primarily focused on issues related to maritime accessibility and the handling of maritime cargo flows in the port area. Today, the balance of attention has somewhat shifted to the land leg. Hinterland infrastructure, inland transport services, and related logistic organization have become important building blocks to ports in view of gaining competitive advantage.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Operations Planning & Control
This course addresses the need for planning and control in operations management. It shows how to identify operations problems and how to use software tools and new technologies to implement solutions. Operations problems covered are demand forecasting, aggregate planning and scheduling, material requirements, just-in-time systems, facility location, inventory planning, and personnel scheduling.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Supplier Quality Management
This course reviews supplier quality assurance principles and techniques while stressing on the methods to obtain quality products and services from suppliers. It discusses supplier evaluation and selection, communication of quality requirements, legal aspects, performance measurements, and solving supplied item quality problems.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
Manufacturing Systems Integration
This course explains the need for the integration of manufacturing systems and deals with the multitude of their practical problems. The engineering details covered include the types of communication links available between systems, communication standards, and hardware platform alternatives. The management concepts discussed are namely the top-down design/bottom-up implementation approach to system integration, long-range planning and management of integration projects, security issues, and human factors.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Logistics
This program addresses today's complexity of logistics. Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information, and other resources between the points of origin and consumption. Logistics involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, packaging, and occasionally security.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Transportation & Logistics
This course emphasizes the optimization of managing, planning, and controlling all the steps involved in the transportation processes from supplier to customer. It covers various transportation modes, tactical and strategic uses of freight consolidation, warehousing operations, and international shipping. It deals with the logistics choices and decisions on strategic, tactical, and operational levels.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Port Integrated Logistics
This course integrates the process of managing, planning, and controlling all aspects of maritime port operations. It deals with forecasting and budgeting, measuring costs and performances, real-time and mobility aspects as well as risk management as the essential elements in optimizing logistics in a maritime port.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Automation Management
This course presents an evolutionary process perspective on technology strategy, automation, and innovation. It covers managing innovation, technology life cycles, forecasting, and managing R&D, personnel, and projects. It teaches how to integrate technology and automation to further develop a firm's technological competencies and capabilities. It also covers current methods, tools, and associated equipment used for current industrial automated processes.
Academic Supervisor: Higinio Menendez Milanes
Supply Chain Management
This course focuses on the analysis and management of material and information flows throughout the supply chain; including aspects of product design and configuration, inventory modeling and planning, network configuration, and supply channel flow management and forecasting.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Operations Management
This course provides an analytical approach to solving problems in production and operations management. It examines quantitative methods for designing and analyzing manufacturing operations, simulation of manufacturing operations, and recent issues in manufacturing including just-in-time production, synchronous manufacturing, and agile manufacturing. It also covers current competitiveness-enhancing techniques like continuous improvement, benchmarking, and business process re-engineering.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Total Quality Management
This course discusses how quality can be achieved in all areas of an organization, including design, production, marketing, customer services, and personnel. It examines how firms create value through quality and how decisions in the areas of capacity, facilities, technology, vertical integration, workforce, quality, production planning, materials control, and organization influence a firm's ability to add value.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
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Logistics Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABOL - Associação Brasileira de Operadores Logísticos
ABRALOG - Associação Brasileira de Logística
ABTC - Associação Brasileira de Transporte Logística e Carga
ABTLP - Associação Brasileira de Transporte e Logística de Produtos Perigosos
AIRL - Association Internationale de Recherche en Logistique et Supply Chain Management
ALACAT - Federación de Asociaciones de Agentes de Carga y Operadores Logísticos Internacionales de América Latina
ALALOG - Asociación Latinoamericana de Logística
APICS - American Society for Production and Inventory Control
ASLOG - Association Française de la Supply Chain et de la Logistique
CSCMP - Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
ELA - European Logistics Association
ETWF - European Transport Workers' Federation
FAPICS - Association Française de Supply Chain Management
FL - Federation Logistics
FNTR - Fédération Nationale des Transports Routiers
FTA - Freight Transport Association
HLA - Humanitarian Logistics Association
IFPSM - International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management
IFWLA - International Federation of Warehousing and Logistics Associations
IOM - Institute of Operations Management
IOSCM - Institute of Supply Chain Management
ITWF - International Transport Workers' Federation
LSCMS - Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
SOLE - International Society of Logistics
TLF - Union des Entreprises Transport et Logistique de France
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Admission requirements - Logistics
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Logistics Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Logistics Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Logistics Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
