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Logistics (Campus Geel)

Logistics

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ECTS Programme schedule

About Logistics

Logistics is the method of quickly and efficiently processing goods in a company and getting them to the customer with the shortest possible storage time and avoiding environmental damage, danger, errors and mistakes. As companies’ production costs – labour and raw materials – can hardly be lowered now, competition has moved to a different field: managing the transit of goods, raw materials, information and money through the company so as to cut costs and serve the customer better.

 

Logistics

Course content
There will be theoretical and practical courses. Besides logistics, your technological, economic and communicative skills, organisational and planning skills, sense of quality, safety and environmental care will be trained. You will learn to be analytically, but also to communicate with departments throughout the company.

General management subjects and languages take up 23 per cent of the curriculum, with the subjects Economics, Finance, Marketing, Industrial Marketing, General Management, Communication and management Skills and French, English and German. In language classes we focus on functional usage in logistics situations.

Work placement
In the third year students go on a work placement for 13 weeks to work on a project.

Job opportunities

  • In General
    Graduates find jobs in stock management, purchase, storage, distribution, warehousing, customer service, safety management, production planning and quality management.
  • Purchasing
    The Purchasing Manager is in charge of the purchase of materials and services, taking into account aspects like cost, life span, incoming orders, technical quality requirements, delivery times, availability and cost of internal and external transport.
  • Production Manager
    The Production Manager is in charge of a timely and accurate production output, i.e. one that meets all specific order requirements. The job must take into account aspects such as available capacity, production layout, required delivery time, production system characteristics, technical quality requirements and availability of internal and external transport.
  • Stocks and Warehouse Manager
    The Stocks and Warehouse Manager is in charge of correct and smooth stock, storage and output of incoming and outgoing goods and materials. Important aspects of the job are, amongst others, conditioning demands, connections with internal and external transport, storage capacity and demand, production rate, technical storage possibilities, product identification.
  • Distribution Manager
    The Distribution Manager is in charge of the outward distribution of (mainly finished) goods and focuses on required delivery times, availability and cost of internal and external transport, packing requirements, technical transport possibilities.