Basic logistics functions and their importance for efficiency, costs, and quality
Material supply
Forecasting
Inventory control
Production planning
IT in logistics
Planning of production logistics processes
MG1219 Production Logistics 7.5 credits
Information per course offering
Information for Spring 2027 Start 12 Jan 2027 programme students
- Course location
KTH Campus
- Duration
- 12 Jan 2027 - 12 Mar 2027
- Periods
Spring 2027: P3 (7.5 hp)
- Pace of study
50%
- Application code
10836
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
Swedish
- Course memo
- Course memo is not published
- Number of places
Places are not limited
- Target group
- Not open for exchange students.
- Planned modular schedule
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- Schedule
Contact
Course syllabus as PDF
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Course syllabus MG1219 (Spring 2027–)Headings with content from the Course syllabus MG1219 (Spring 2027–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
1 – Explain various logistics functions and place them in their respective contexts.
2 – Be familiar with and describe reference models that can be used to describe logistics processes in a standardised manner
3 – Explain how the degree of customer order-driven production and the product’s structure affect materials supply planning
4 - Explain how materials and information management systems are structured and how they contribute to improved production logistics performance in manufacturing companies.
5 - Apply methods and calculation techniques for managing production, stock and order logistics
6 - Apply established methods to analyse material and information flows and identify opportunities to improve production logistics performance in manufacturing companies.
7 - Apply existing frameworks that guide the use of digital technology to analyse material and information flows, and identify how this technology can contribute to improved production logistics performance in manufacturing companies.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Completed course MG1204
Literature
You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.
Examination and completion
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- TEN1 - Written exam, 1.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- INL1 - Assignments, 3.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- INL2 - Assignment, 1.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
- ÖVN1 - Exercises, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability. The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students. If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.
Offered by
Main field of study
Technology
Education cycle
First cycle