2024/2025

Design of the Logistics Infrastructure Facilities

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: International Centre for Logistics Training

When: 4 module

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Andrey Vinogradov

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The main purpose of the course is to establish the students’ competence in setting up and developing a company’s logistics infrastructure in line with the corporate, marketing and logistics strategies of an organization. The major emphasis will be made on warehouses and their kinds (e.g. distribution centres) as a backbone of the contemporary supply chains. As a result of the course students are expected to: • Master necessary warehouse capacity and area calculations taking into account business development forecasts and be able to take decisions on the necessary set of warehouse zones as well as on their optimum sizes. • Develop efficient and effective material handling process in a warehouse taking into consideration peculiarities of every single technological assortment group as well as objectives of a warehouse as a whole. Students should also be able to take advantage of the right selection of warehouse material handling and storage equipment. • Explain the requirements for an effective and efficient design of a warehouse site layout and be skillful in planning a warehouse loading bay and calculating the required number of docks • Design layouts of major warehouse zones with respect to the elaborated processes of the material handling, evaluate the versions of the layouts and choose the most appropriate one. • Master the development of the organizational structure of a warehouse.