Syllabus
INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS LOGISTICS (LOGS)
Summer 2015
Course CRN:
Course Code and Name: LMGT1319 - Contemporary Logistics, 11/e by Paul R. Murphy Jr.,
2015. ISBN 9780132953467
Instructor: Pham Tan Anh
MP: 0903985805
Email: anhptdl@yahoo.com
Campus and Room Location: Quang Trung Tower, Room 201
Time: 07h30- 11h45 on every Wednesday
Course Description
This course presents a systematic approach to managing business activities associated with
transportation, inventory management, warehousing, packaging, order processing, materials
handling…
Prerequisites: None
Credit: 3.
Program Learning
Outcomes
Course SLO
(Students Learning
Outcomes)
LO (Learning
Objectives)
1. Identify global issues and trends.
2. Examine legal issues and proper documentation necessary
for international trade.
3. Analyze various sources of international business research.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of global and world geography.
1. Explain logistics/supply chain terms
2. Solve transportation problems using knowledge of world
geography and the transportation system
3. Logistics and information technology
4. Explain the elements of logistics systems: demand
management, inventory management, transportation
management, packaging and material handling and
distribution and warehouse management
5. Explain about organizing, analyzing, and controlling logistics
systems
1.1. Definition of logistics/supply chain, mission of logistics/supply
chain and the important role of logistics and supply chain
1.2. Understand logistics and supply chain strategy and planning.
Return on investment of logistics assets (ROLA)
1.3. Understand logistics/supply chain product, customer service,
order processing and information system
2.1. Understand the important role of effective transportation
system, service choices and transport characteristics
2.2. Learn about the rate profile in transportation, how to calculate
the rate
2.3. Understand transportation document in exporting, importing
2.4. Learn how to make decision in transport and how to choose
suitable transportation facilities to respond well customer request
with minimize cost
3.1. Learn about nature of forecasting, forecasting methods, useful
techniques for logisticians
3.2. Understand using forecast techniques in inventory policy
decisions and the approaches of controlling inventories
3.3. Understand using forecast techniques in purchasing and
supply schedule decisions, storage and material handling
4.1. Learn about location strategy and the effect of location to
distribution channel and supply chain activities
4.2. Understand many type of location: single facility location,
multiple facility location, dynamic warehouse locations and location
problems
4.3. Understand the effect of organizational structure to logistics
and supply chain management
4.4. Learn how to choose suitable organizational structure to
control well the logistics/supply chain process.
Course Objectives
The primary objective is to give students an understanding well about WHAT are logistics and supply
chain, WHY it becomes so vital nowadays to manage the business logistics / supply chain in an
organization, HOW to manage and control well logistics activities in the organization to maximize
profit and respond well customer’s demand.
Textbook :
Contemporary Logistics, 11/e by Paul R. Murphy Jr., 2015. ISBN 9780132953467
Academic Dishonesty Policy
Cheating in any form and plagiarism will not be tolerated. Any student discovered cheating on an
examination or plagiarizing in writing assignment will be dropped from the course and receive an F,
and if deemed necessary, the matter will be forwarded through the channels prescribed in the HCCS
Student Handbook.
A. Cheating
Acts of cheating in examinations, homework, tests and other assignments include but are not limited
to:
1. Copy tests, works, reports etc. from computers, database, programs of other students and people
2. Use study materials or electronic devices during examinations, tests without instructor’s
permission
3. Collaborate with other students during examinations, tests, or assignments without instructor’s
permission
4. Use or submit the same work for different classes without instructors’ permission
5. Use, buy, sell, steal, spread out, ask for a part or a whole of unpublished tests
6. Take the test for someone else or have someone take the test for you or help or ask someone to
do your homework
7. Bribe to get unpublished tests
8. Bribe students, instructors, or school staff to change grades
B. Plagiarism
Acts of plagiarism include but are not limited to:
1. Submit other people’s works to get points
2. Copy words or ideas without citing source and author’s name
3. Do not use quotation marks for direct citation
4. Cite the wrong source
5. Change the wording but sentence structure without citing author’s name
6. Borrow words/ phrases from a source without using quotation marks or with making negligible
change
7. Copy too many words or ideas that make up the most of personal work, regardless of whether
source and author’s name are cited
8. Copy information from Internet such as company information, market information etc.
9. Use Google Translation to write up papers, regardless of whether you use your own ideas or
borrow ideas
10. Use Google Translation to write up papers by translating Vietnamese from existing Vietnamese
study materials/ sources into English
Grading scheme & Passing grade:
%
Items
15
Attendance & Class
participation
25
Drills &
Assignments
10
Presentation
25
Mid-term Exam
25
Final Exam
100
Total
Grade
Final score
A
90-100
B
80-89
C
70-79
D
60 – 69
F
0 – 59
Passing grade for this course is: D
Mid-term and Final Exams Format:
Exam
Exam Type
Open/Close
book
Online-Multiple
Choice
Close
Number
of
Questions
60
Duration Points
(minutes)
50
60
Chapters
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Mid-term
Essay
1,2,4,6,7
Close
2
70
40
(on Paper)
Online-Multiple
8,9,10,11,12,13,
Close
60
50
60
Choice
14
(on Computer)
Final
Essay
8,9,10,12,14
Close
2
70
40
(on Paper)
Make-up Exam Policy and others:
 Students are expected to take every scheduled exam. Make-up exam are not guaranteed.
 All group assignments must be presented on due date. Every incidence related to the topic,
group members or whatsoever must be reported to the instructor at least 48 hours prior to the
date of group presentation for approval.
 Students who absent from class 6hours and over would be prohibited to take the exam and
receive F grade
Course Calendar:
Week
Date
Topics
Minimal Reading
Assignment
1
Jun, 17, 2015
Course Orientation
Whole Chapter
Ch 1: Overview of Logistics
Case study: Kiddieland and Supergym
2
Jun, 24, 2015
Ch2: Logistics and information technology
Ch3: Strategic and financial logistics
3
Jul, 01, 2015
Ch4:Organizational and managerial issue in
logistics
Ch5: The supply chain management concept
Whole chapter
Whole Chapter
4
Jul, 08, 2015
Ch6: Procurement
Ch7: Demand management, order
management and customer service
Whole chapter
5
Jul, 15, 2015
Ch7: Demand management, order
management and customer service
Review for Midterm exam
Whole chapter
6
Jul, 22, 2015
Midterm exam
7
Jul, 29, 2015
Ch8: Inventory management
Ch9:Distribution center, warehouse and
location plant
Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4,
5,6,7
Whole chapter
8
Aug, 05, 2015
Ch10: Warehousing management
Ch11: Packaging and material handling
Whole chapter
9
Aug, 12, 2015
Whole chapter
10
Aug, 19, 2015
11
Aug, 26, 2015
Ch 12: Transportation
Case study: HDT Truck company
Ch 14:International logistics
Review for final exam
Final Exam Test
12
Sep, 2nd, 2015
(Holiday No
class)
Ch13: Transportation Management
Case Study: Chippy Potato Chip Company
Final Exam grade result, claim and
explanation
Make up would be arranged and advised
later
Whole chapter
Chapter
8,9,10,11,12,13,14
Whole chapter