Warsaw, Poland

Logistics

Bachelor's - engineer

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⇑Logistics at Merito Warszawa

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: engineering and engineering trades

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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University website: www.merito.pl/english/warszawa

⇑Why study Logistics (engineering degree) at WSB Merito University in Warsaw?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Merito Warszawa

Why study it:

Programme: supply chains, transport and engineering
Labs: logistics systems laboratory
Placements: study visits and the diploma project
After graduation: roles in the industry

Logistics at WSB Merito University in Warsaw is a seven-semester engineering degree at first-cycle level, taught in English. It is aimed at school-leavers who want to follow goods and information from supplier to customer and to manage those flows with analytical tools.

Programme: supply chains, transport and engineering

You learn to run the chain that links suppliers, warehouses and customers, covering buying, storage and delivery, and to plan, coordinate and monitor the movement of goods and information. The course follows current trends in transport, forwarding and warehousing, and teaches you to analyse logistics processes and make them more efficient. Problems are tackled together with specialists from other fields, with up-to-date IT tools at hand.

The core plan includes supply, production and distribution logistics, logistics infrastructure, commodity science, the technology and economics of transport, and quality management and standardisation. Engineering graphics, statistics with elements of operational research and the ecological side of a product's life cycle bring in the technical side. Specialist classes add domestic and international forwarding, warehouse automation, legal liability in logistics, cargo management in transport, online-trade technology and a module on how AI tools are changing the sector.

Labs: logistics systems laboratory

A laboratory of logistics systems is a regular part of the plan, alongside semester projects that deal with real business problems.

Placements: study visits and the diploma project

Learning by doing

Study visitsa chance to learn from practitioners working in the industry
Placementsa short, structured part of the course, with paid internships offered by partner employers
Diplomaa team project on a practical or theoretical logistics problem, defended before a committee to earn the title of engineer

After graduation: roles in the industry

Roles named on the programme page include:

transport logistics coordinator at a haulage company
warehouse specialist responsible for storage space and process optimisation
logistics process analyst in a distribution centre
international transport specialist who supervises the flow of goods
supply chain expert who streamlines purchasing and distribution
consultant who advises firms on logistics strategy

Based on the programme pages at merito.pl.

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Logistics

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. The resources managed in logistics can include physical items such as food, materials, animals, equipment, and liquids; as well as abstract items, such as time and information. The logistics of physical items usually involves the integration of information flow, materials handling, production, packaging, inventory, transportation, warehousing, and often security.

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Logistics

On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war. These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign. More than 35 countries are giving crucial support -- from the use of naval and air bases, to help with intelligence and logistics, to the deployment of combat units. Every nation in this coalition has chosen to bear the duty and share the honor of serving in our common defense.

George W. Bush White House Video and Transcript (19 March 2003)

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Experience has shown that the mass-armies of “democratic” states fight with greater zeal when they are animated by hatred and supported by a hate-crazed populace that fancies it is fighting a holy war. Lies have therefore become military equipment, a kind of mental logistics; but it is the essence of such propaganda that its spuriousness is known only to the persons who manufacture it. The model of such operations is the famous lie-factory managed by Lord Bryce during the First World War, in which a corps of expert technicians forged photographs, while expert liars, including Arnold Toynbee, concocted stories, of “atrocities,” to inspire the emotionally overwrought British with a fanatical hatred of the incredibly bestial Germans and with a noble Christian ardor to kill them.

Revilo P. Oliver "Revised Historiography", Liberty Bell magazine (April 1980)

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Hannibal excelled as a tactician. No battle in history is a finer sample of tactics than Cannae. But he was yet greater in logistics and strategy. No captain ever marched to and fro among so many armies of troops superior to his own numbers and material as fearlessly and skillfully as he. No man ever held his own so long or so ably against such odds. Constantly overmatched by better soldiers, led by generals always respectable, often of great ability, he yet defied all their efforts to drive him from Italy, for half a generation. … As a soldier, in the countenance he presented to the stoutest of foes and in the constancy he exhibited under the bitterest adversity, Hannibal stands alone and unequaled. As a man, no character in history exhibits a purer life or nobler patriotism.

Theodore Ayrault Dodge, in Hannibal : A History of the Art of War among the Carthaginians and Romans (1893), p. 652

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