- Logistics trends and practices
- Logistics overview
- Logistics, supply chain and the organization
- Strategic, tactical and operational elements of logistics
- Sustainable logistics
- Concepts in logistics: 3PL & 4PL
- Transport management
- Objectives of transport management
- Transportation modes and types
- Efficient and effective transportation
- Matching the strategic service level
- Routing
- Cubing
- Considerations for international transportation
- Warehousing operations
- Warehousing network design
- Configuration of warehousing space
- Value adding activities
- Stockpiling, spot stocking and assortments
- Cross docking, break bulking and consolidation
- Mixing, postponement and assembly-to-order
- Warehouse activity profiling
- Warehousing cost calculation
- Sustainable warehousing practices
- Inventory management
- Materials management scope
- Objectives of materials management
- Inventory types and classification
- Materials management challenges
- Material replenishment strategies
- Make-to-stock
- Make-to-order
- Assemble-to-order
- Design-to-order
- Logistics and performance management
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- The SCOR framework
- Identifying high level SCOR metrics
- Customizing low level SCOR metrics
- Managing targets
- Initiative for performance improvement