Course Details

Logistics

Academic Year 2025/26

NWB024 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIR Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Motyčka, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Technology, Mechanisation and Construction Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

3 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295822

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the course. Theoretical fundamentals of logistics. The basics of systems theory and control theory – the role of feedback. The fundamentals of systems engineering. The basis of the theory of decision-making processes .
  • 2. Logistics chains – principles and creation of chains. Logistics of tangible and intangible flows – material, information and financial flows. Analysis and reciprocal links. Logistics decomposition of a real corporate structure. Interaction of logistics and production management.
  • 3. Mathematical methods of logistics. Modelling and simulation. The use of simulation programmes.
  • 4. Decision-making processes in practice – relationships between decision making and management. The role of the Chinese postman and Travelling salesman problems. Their use in civil engineering practice – the management of building site operations and the supplying of construction work.
  • 5. Operational research - principles and methods. Linear programming and its practical application.
  • 6. The basics of graph theory. The basics of game theory. The fundamentals of queueing theory and its use in the operation of construction site equipment.
  • 7. Practical tasks and objectives of logistics in business. Use of logistics in the system by which construction processes are managed.
  • 8. Logistics and decision-making functions in the area of the management of building site equipment operation – the provision and management of supplies (warehouses), methods: KANBAN, Just In Time.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Logistics – a logistics decomposition of a system. Usage in the decomposition of the system of equipping a building site.
  • 2. Logistics chains – internal relationships and relations with surroundings. Example of tangible and intangible flow solutions in real-world building sites and building execution.
  • 3. Examples of operational analysis, decision theory and queueing theory. Solution of supply and transportation problems – application of the roles of the Chinese postman and the travelling salesman.
  • 4. Programmes for logistics modelling. Simulation of examples from the area of queueing theory.
  • 5. Simulation of examples from the area of queueing theory – concurrent production.
  • 6. Simulation of a supply problem.
  • 7. Simulation of an example of a logistics chain from the area of construction site equipment.
  • 8. Simulation of an example of a logistics chain used in building execution.