Financial Logistics

Verify the importance that logistics aspects have in the current reality of companies and the development of skills for the management of some techniques to support logistics management

Module 1: Supply Chain Management
Module 2: Inventory Management: Independent Demand
Module 3: Inventory Management: Dependent Demand
Module 4: JIT, TPS and Lean Production Systems
Module 5: Location Strategies

BASIC:
HEIZER, J. and RENDER, B. (2015): Production and operations management. Strategic decisions (11th ed.). Prentice Hall.
HEIZER, J. and RENDER, B. (2015): Production and operations management. Tactical Decisions (11th ed.). Prentice Hall.

COMPLEMENTARY:
ANAYA TEJERO, J.J. (2.015): The operational management of the company: a comprehensive logistics approach (5th ed.). Esic Ed.
CASTÁN FARRERO, J.M. LOÓPEZ PARADO, J. and NÚÑEZ CARBALLOSA, A. (2012): Logistics in the company: A strategic area to achieve competitive advantages: Ediciones Pirámide.
DOMÍNGUEZ MACHUCA, J.A. and others (2003): Operations Directorate. Strategic aspects in production and services. Madrid: McGraw-Hill.
DOMÍNGUEZ MACHUCA, J.A. and others (2003): Operations Directorate. Tacit and operational aspects in production and services. Madrid: McGrawHill.
PARRA GUERRERO (2005): Stock Management (3rd ed.) Esic Ed.

Degree competences to which the subject contributes

BASIC AND GENERAL SKILLS:
CB1 – The students have demonstrated to possess and understand knowledge in an area of study that starts from the base of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although it is supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that imply knowledge from the forefront of your field of study.
CB2 – The students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the competencies that are usually demonstrated through the development and defense of arguments and problem solving within their area of study.
CB3 – The students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their study area) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
CB4 – The students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both a specialized and a non-specialized audience.
CB5 – The students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
CG1 – To possess and understand the knowledge that defines Business Administration and Management as a scientific discipline, including its theories, history, methods, techniques and areas of application, at a level that is supported by the most advanced publications and includes some of the aspects most relevant companies that are at the forefront of knowledge in this field.
CG4 -To know how to communicate information, ideas, problems and proposals for solutions to business issues both to a specialized and non-specialized public, making use of both verbal and written language as well as the means and techniques of representation of relationships and presentation of data that are used. in discipline.

TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES
CT1 - Analysis and synthesis
CT2 - Organization and planning
CT3 - Oral and written communication
CT4 - Management of Information
CT5 - Knowledge of information technology related to the field of study.
CT6 - Troubleshooting.
CT7 - Decision making.
CT9 - Autonomy in learning
CT10 -Teamwork

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES:
B5 - Tactical and strategic decisions related to the production area
D8 - Derive relevant information from the data that cannot be recognized by non-professionals
D10 - Apply professional criteria based on the handling of technical instruments to the analysis of problems

The sessions dedicated to the lectures will aim to present to the students the contents of the topics that make up the program, emphasizing the especially relevant aspects and the relationships between them.

The interactive sessions will focus on the practical application of the theoretical contents presented in the lecture sessions. These sessions will aim to solve cases and practical exercises to improve the ability of students to recognize, define and analyze the problems faced by companies, and to make the most appropriate decisions, while facilitating interaction between stakeholders. students. All these activities will be complemented with the personal work that the students will have to dedicate to each one of them.
The teachers will monitor the attendance of the students and their participation in the sessions.
In the tutorials, the teachers will guide the students and help them solve the doubts and problems they face in the learning process.

The subject will have an Operational virtual classroom, which will be the preferred mode of delivery of activities. Likewise, the forum of that virtual classroom, the institutional email and the Microsoft Teams’ platform, will be used as communication channels.

If possible, a practical session in the form of a lecture or company visit will take place.

The continuous assessment will collect the mark derived from all the activities carried out by the students (eg, case analysis, delivery of exercises, assignments, etc.) and will have a weight in the final evaluation of 30%. The remaining 70% will correspond to the score obtained in a final test. However, to be able to add the continuous assessment mark, it is necessary for students to obtain at least a 2.8 out of 7 in the final test. The added mark must be equal to or greater than 5 points out of 10 to pass the subject.

The list of competencies that will be evaluated in this matter is detailed below:
- Continuous evaluation: CB1; CB2; CB3, CB4; CG4; CT1; CT2; CT4; CT7; CT9; CT10
- Final exam: CB1; CG1; CG5; CT5; CT6; B5; D8; D10

In the case of fraudulent realization of cases, exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the evaluation of academic performance of students and review of grades" will apply.

This evaluation system will be applied both in the first opportunity and in the recovery one.

Attendance to both the lectures and the interactive classes is mandatory, unless the student is granted the exemption of attendance following Instruction No. 1/2017, of the General Secretariat, on the exemption of attendance to class in certain circumstances. The students to whom the dispensation is granted will be evaluated with a specific final exam that will account for 100% of the final grade.

Contact hours: 45
Non-contact hours: 3 a week (1 h. Of theory and 2 of problems / practices)
Final exam preparation: 5
Evaluation hours: 5
Total workload: 112.5 hours.

Basic knowledge of: Business Administration; Production and Operation Management and Management Information Systems.