Eliminate wasteful activities from your supply chain using lean logistics

On this two-week course, you’ll understand the concept of lean logistics, together with its tools, principles, and the seven wastes.

You’ll understand the impact of lean and discover the practical approaches to conducting lean logistics in your supply chain.

Improve your decision-making procedures in distribution networks

You’ll begin the course by learning how to identify decision-making procedures in your distribution networks. You’ll then identify where you can use lean logistics to help you make more considered and effective decisions.

You’ll also examine the facility location concept in network design, as well as the factors that can affect it to gain a deeper understanding of what to consider for your facility location.

Discover the just-in-time approach

You’ll learn about the just-in-time approach and explore different techniques and concepts in lean logistics can help to further eliminate waste from your supply chain.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand a variety of different ways you can apply lean logistics to benefit your supply chain processes.

Syllabus

Week 1
Lean logistics
- Welcome to Short Course 4
  Welcome to a new week in this International Logistics module.
- An introduction to 'lean'
  In this activity, we will introduce you to the concept of 'lean'.
- Practical application of lean
  In this activity, we will look at how lean philosophy can be applied to logistics processes.
- A summary of the week
  A chance for you to review and reflect on your learning this week.
Week 2
Facility location and distribution networks
- Welcome to Week 2
  Welcome back to a new week of International Logistics.
- Facility location
  In this activity, we will consider the factors and methods for determining facility locations in a logistics network.
- Distribution networks
  In this activity, we explore the transport, facility, and network design elements for distribution networks.
- A summary of the week and short course
  A review of the week and your chance to reflect on your learning over this short course.

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Discuss the lean logistics definition as well as its tools and principles
Identify third-party logistics
Discover the facility location concept, special factors and the decision-making procedure

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for practitioners looking to develop their understanding of international logistics and its concepts.

This course from Coventry University is part of the International Logistics ExpertTrack, exploring the importance of international logistics from a strategic perspective.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

Established
1992
Location
Coventry

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Explore the importance of international logistics and develop your understanding of logistics management at a strategic level.

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