Logistics Management
Logistics Management is an Academic Profession degree of 120 ECTS – giving you the tools to become proficient in coordination and logistics with an international perspective.
Do you want to be a freight forwarder, Supply Chain Coordinator or Logistics Planner? With the education as a logistics economist, you become good at planning, coordinating and managing global supply chains and logistics networks.
You will be prepared for various jobs in the field of logistics in many different types of companies such as production, trading or service companies, with freight forwarders, shipping companies or freight companies. Here you can, for example, get to work with planning transport at home and abroad, purchasing and Supply Chain Management or production and warehouse management.
Facts
Title
Logistics Management
Education Level
Academic Profession degree - 120 ECTS points
Duration
2 years
Internship
3 months SU-eligible internship
Study Start
August September
Location
Hobro
Language
Danish
Content and structure
TheLogistics Management programme combines theoretical and practical aspects within logistics, purchasing, production, storage and distribution in an international perspective.
For the first 3 semesters of studying for logistics economics, you are at the business academy. Here you will encounter both team teaching and group-based project work, both practice-oriented and close to reality. Among other things, you will visit companies and the teaching is also based on cases from real life as a logistics manager.
In your last semester, you will do an internship. A course that equips you to use the theories from your education in practice. As the last part of the education, you must prepare the final exam project.
Curriculum
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The company and the market
At the start of the course, you will be introduced to transport and logistics, so that you learn more specifically which areas of expertise you will encounter as a logistics economist.
You learn about the logistical work areas; including purchasing, production and distribution management, and you will be introduced to the different modes of transport.
You gain insight into organizational structure, management and decision-making processes. You will be introduced to project work and you will gain knowledge about how to communicate professionally and business-wise in both Danish and English.
You will also learn about the company's position in the market – both from a local, national and international perspective, and not least you will learn about what this means for the company.
You learn to analyze the opportunities and disadvantages of the company's position in the market, and you learn to utilize the knowledge you gain from the analysis.
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Purchasing and production
Here you will be introduced to what purchasing is in a company, and not least about the importance of good and less good purchasing for the company.
How you conduct a procurement negotiation in Danish and English is also something that you will want to become familiar with.
You learn how to do quality control; including using statistical techniques so that you make the right number of samples.
During this core area, you will also be introduced to storage and logistics as well as the production processes in companies; right from the raw materials arriving in the warehouse until the finished products are ready for dispatch at the other end of the value chain.
For example, you will gain knowledge about analysis methods in relation to companies' material flow, and you will learn how to prepare forecasts and optimize production and inventory management.
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Distribution and Supply Chain Management
Distribution and Supply Chain Management gives you an insight into how the finished product comes from suppliers all over the world to the company's warehouse and on to customers in both Denmark and abroad. You gain skills to manage product, information and money flows as well as assess legal issues in transport, import, and export.
This involves analyzing and drawing up solutions for the challenges that may arise along the way in global supply chains, and the reservations that must be taken - also concerning if a product must be returned to the company from the customer. You learn to complete projects and implement the solutions using project management tools.
You gain knowledge about different forms of transport and planning, and you also learn to handle distribution systems.
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