Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Prerequisites: CVL261 or Instructor’s permission
Overlaps with: SML843
Description
Evolution of freight and logistics; Interrelationships between society, environment and freight transport; Survey methodologies to understand freight movement; Cost measurement: Production, Holding, Transportation, Handling; Effect of internal and external variables on cost; Demand forecasting; Inventory planning and management; Transportation and distribution network: Design, Development, Management; Ware house operations; Pricing: Perishable, seasonal demand, uncertainty issues; Vehicle routing: One-to-one distribution, One-to-many distribution, Shortest path algorithm, Quickest time algorithm; Logistics information system; Designing and planning transportation networks; Multi-modal transportation issues.
Prerequisite Tree
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CVL461-1371[CVL461]
CVL261-1371 --> CVL111-1371[CVL111]
CVL461-1371 --> CVL261-1371[CVL261]
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