Logistics and Supply Chain Management
PROFESSOR LUCA LANINI
COURSE AIMS
The course aims to illustrate the characteristics and the opportunities in relation to
integrated supply chain management (SCM) within an economic system. The
analysis is focused on production, commercial and distribution management of
goods, and allows for evidencing the development of logistical outsourcing and the
strategic role assumed by third-party logistics operators. The methodological
approach followed is that of supply chain management and distribution channels
(commercial and logistical), where the company is positioned within a system of
productive, commercial and distribution relationships at the front and back ends of
the supply chain. The course thus studies customer-supplier relationships,
commercial and logistical networks (distribution channels), the strategies of the
different players, techniques for optimising and managing both physical (goods)
and information (ICT) flows. Using a case-study approach, the course will also
look at several examples of excellence in businesses and organisational models (at
least one field trip to a company will be taken).
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, the student should be able to discern the reorganisational
processes under way within economic systems in light of the relationships between
customers and suppliers at the front and back end of supply management, being
able to analyse summarily the relationships between the different links in the
production, sale and distribution of goods. In gaining an understanding of
logistical and marketing management within business processes and thus, of
supply-chain management, the student will be better equipped to tackle and
understand business economics, marketing, and international courses.
COURSE CONTENT
The course is divided into five parts:
1. Fundamentals of supply chain management and logistics: concepts, definitions,
development over time, and method of analysis for SCM and logistics,
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management of physical and information (ICT) flows, international-expansion
and localisation processes, including in relation to competitive scenarios;
sales and marketing channels: nature and relationships, distribution forms,
marketing management, nature and development of customer-supplier
contractual relationships (vertical relationships);
logistics channels: the physical structure of the supply network, logistics
platforms and warehouses, inventory management, analysis of the logistics
management of industrial and commercial firms (with un focus on large-scale
retailing);
logistics outsourcing: developments over time and strategies of logistics
services providers, framework of reference and scenarios, type of services
offered, development of the organisational models (international expansion of
the firms, 3PL and 4PL);
case studies: presentation of several cases of excellence in proper and effective
supply chain and logistics management, through a focus on important Italian
firms in a productive, commercial and logistical framework.
READING LIST
Lecture notes and collection of articles prepared by the professor.
Textbooks
P. ROMANO-P. DANESE, Supply Chain Management, McGraw-Hill, Milan, 2006.
M. CHRISTOPHER, Supply Chain Management, creare valore con la logistica, Pearson Italia, 2005.
D.J.BOWERSOX-D.J.CLOSS-M.B.COOPER, Manuale di logistica e gestione della supply chain,
Recniche Nuove, Milano, 2011.
Recommended reading
F.DALLARI-G.MARCHET, L’outsourcing logistico nel settore del largo consumo, Ed. Sole 24 Ore, 2008.
F. DALLARI-G. MARCHET, Rinnovare la supply chain, Edizioni del Sole 24 Ore, 2003.
C. FERROZZI-R. SHAPIRO, Dalla logistica alla Supply chain Management, Isedi, 2000.
GEA (ED), Il Supply chain Management dalla teoria alla pratica, Isedi, 2005.
A. COZZOLINO, Operatori logistici, Cedam, Padua, 2009.
TEACHING METHOD
Lectures, with the video projector support (documents in Word, Excel, Power Point).
ASSESSMENT METHOD
Written final exam.
NOTES
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