Major Topics for Semester Examination Preparations

Subject: Logistics Management

1. Fundamentals of Logistics Management and its linkage with supply chain management
2. Overview of logistics management in Indian and global scenario and its increasing
importance
3. Relationship among inventory, facility and transportation in terms of overall logistics
operations
4. Factors affecting transportation cost
5. Location Planning method (like Center of Gravity method, Simple Median Model etc) for
Facility based on transportation cost
6. Comparative studies of various modes of transportation
7. Various transportation strategies (Cross Docking, Milk Run, direct Shipment etc)
8. Role of logistics in distribution network design and vice versa
9. Warehouse Management fundamentals, principles, objectives
10. Types of warehouses
11. Steps for Warehouse layout design
12. Factors affecting warehouse location
13. Palletization and Unitization
14. 3PL
15. Reverse logistics operations
16. Incoterms
17. Brief note on EXW, FCA, CIF, FOB
18. Role of Containerization, Inland Container Depot (ICD), Container Freight Stations (CFS)
in logistics
19. Brief note on CONCOR
20. Liner Market and Tramp Market in Shipping
21. E-Commerce and its relationship with logistics
22. Inventory control applications
Numerical: All types of numerical covered in the class of Logistics Management
1. Selection of mode of transport
2. Location planning method
3. Inventory control (Based on service level, design inventory policy)-Optional