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Specialization (SP) Module 3: Logistics Management and Law

Module name (EN):
Name of module in study programme. It should be precise and clear.
Specialization (SP) Module 3: Logistics Management and Law
Degree programme:
Study Programme with validity of corresponding study regulations containing this module.
Business Administration, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2012
Module code: BBWL-533
Hours per semester week / Teaching method:
The count of hours per week is a combination of lecture (V for German Vorlesung), exercise (U for Übung), practice (P) oder project (PA). For example a course of the form 2V+2U has 2 hours of lecture and 2 hours of exercise per week.
4V (4 hours per week)
ECTS credits:
European Credit Transfer System. Points for successful completion of a course. Each ECTS point represents a workload of 30 hours.
5
Semester: 5 or 6
Mandatory course: no
Language of instruction:
German
Assessment:
Written exam (120 min. / Can be repeated semesterly)

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Applicability / Curricular relevance:
All study programs (with year of the version of study regulations) containing the course.

BBWL-533 Business Administration, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2012 , optional course
BBWL-533/633 (P420-0098) Business Administration, Bachelor, ASPO 01.10.2016 , optional course
Workload:
Workload of student for successfully completing the course. Each ECTS credit represents 30 working hours. These are the combined effort of face-to-face time, post-processing the subject of the lecture, exercises and preparation for the exam.

The total workload is distributed on the semester (01.04.-30.09. during the summer term, 01.10.-31.03. during the winter term).
60 class hours (= 45 clock hours) over a 15-week period.
The total student study time is 150 hours (equivalent to 5 ECTS credits).
There are therefore 105 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.
Recommended prerequisites (modules):
BBWL-230 Law - Basic Course
BBWL-330 Business Law


[updated 16.09.2013]
Recommended as prerequisite for:
Module coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Bousonville
Lecturer:
Prof. Wilhelm Hauser
Prof. Dr. Sybille Neumann
Lehrbeauftragte


[updated 16.09.2013]
Learning outcomes:
Subarea: Logistics Organization and Controlling
  
After successfully completing this module, students will be able to:
 
- carry out a strategic analysis of the logistics of an industrial or trading company or a logistics service provider,
- develop functional logistics strategies,
 
- describe the design possibilities of a logistics organization.
- set up a logistics controlling system that contains the following components, among others,
    Key figure systems (quantitative and qualitative key figures)
 
    Benchmarks
    Process cost accounting
    Balanced score card
    Budgeting
- evaluate and optimize the efficiency of a logistics unit
- explain the essential elements of a quality management system
 
 
Subarea: Legal Aspects of Logistics
  
After successfully completing this module, students will be able to:
 
- solve legal problems concerning the most important national logistics contracts,
- consider aspects of international transport and insurance law,
 
- address and present specific legal problems of logistics.
 


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Module content:
Subarea: Logistics Organization and Controlling
 
- Principles of strategic management
- Strategic analysis of logistics
- Functional logistics strategies
- Organizational structure and process organization in logistics
- Managing a logistics unit (personnel, costs, performance) using selected practical examples
- Logistics controlling (key figures, process cost accounting, BSC, vehicle routing,
 
  budgeting)
- Measuring efficiency in logistics
- Quality management (service, customer satisfaction, error rate, various audits)
  
 
Subarea: Legal Aspects of Logistics
 
- National contracts for logistics companies
- International transport law
- Aspects of insurance law


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Teaching methods/Media:
- Lecture und discussions
- Students will practice solving complex practical problems in individual or group work and then discuss their solutions
- Study trips to companies with logistics units _  Follow-up to the study trip within the framework of the lecture
 
- Pfohl, Hans-Christian:


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Recommended or required reading:
Logistiksysteme. Betriebswirtschaftliche Grundlagen.
  7., korr. u. akt. Aufl. Berlin u.a. 2004.
- Stock, James R./Lambert, Douglas M. (2001): Strategic Logistics Management.
  4. Aufl. Homewood, Illinois 2001.
- Andreas Müglich, Transport- und Logistikrecht, München 2002.
- Pokrant, G. Gran, A.: Transport- und Logistikrecht, Köln, latest edition.
  

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