Logistics ManagementLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

The students have a clearly organized veiw of the management of logistics know-how and they are able to create the know-how strategy of their work community in order to create the know-how strategy of their work community to develop continuously the personnel resources and core know-how. They have understood the basic principles and models of the management of logistic know-how and they can apply them in the development and competitiveness of their work community in the dynamic operation environment. They understand the possibilities and significance of national and global networking in the development of their work community and recognize its and their responsibility in the control of sustainable development. The students can assess and develop their own and their subordinates' know-how in the work community and in daily activities.

Content

Definitions of logistics, strategies of logistics management, total view of the working environment of international logistics and the related risks and possibilities. Mastering and exploiting international logistic networks.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Excellent (5): Expert in developing a special field of working life.
Mastering multidisciplinary knowledge and having the ability to assess critically the expertise knowledge of the field.

The ability to combine innovatively the knowledge of different fields to develop new knowledge and new operation methods.
Ability to manage and renovate the operation methods of an organisation and to take responsibility for developing the field and the strategic evaluation of the operation.

Good (3-4): Expert in developing an organisation.
Advanced knowledge of the field of expertise and its connections with the knowledge of other fields.
Specialized skills in problem solving to develop new knowledge and operation methods.

Ability to manage and renovate the operation methods of the work community and to take responsibility in developing work practices.

Satisfactory (1-2): Developing expert.
Partly specialized knowledge of the field of expertise.
Specialized skills in problem solving to develop new operation methods.
Ability to manage and renovate the operation methods of a team and to take responsibility in developing work practices.