Cracow, Poland

International Logistics

Master's
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⇑International Logistics at UEK

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: uek.krakow.pl

⇑Test: Is International Logistics the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A shipment of components is stuck at a border crossing, and a client’s production line abroad will stop in two days. What do you do?

2. You have to decide where to locate a regional distribution hub serving several markets. How do you approach it?

3. How do you feel about mastering the rules of international trade in detail – Incoterms, customs procedures, documentary credits?

4. How do you feel about using optimisation software and simulations to plan inventory across a global supply chain?

5. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll work on supply chain case studies with students from many countries. How do you feel about that?

6. The board asks you to cut the carbon footprint of transport without raising costs much. How do you respond?

7. A key supplier is located in a region hit by a natural disaster, and deliveries stop. How would you make the chain more resilient in future?

8. You’re asked to lead the roll-out of a new warehouse management system across several sites. How do you feel about that role?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in International Logistics?

⇑Definitions and quotes

International
International mostly means something (a company, language, or organization) involving more than a single country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries. For example, international law, which is applied by more than one country and usually everywhere on Earth, and international language which is a language spoken by residents of more than one country.
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.
Logistics
It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.
Alain de Botton The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009) p. 39
Logistics
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
Heinz Guderian, Quoted in "Sword Point" - Page 141 - by Harold Coyle - 1988
Logistics
It struck me as I waited that all great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics. Building pyramids or landing spacecraft on Jupiter or invading whole continents or painting divine scenes over the roofs of chapels: logistics.
Tom McCarthy, Remainder, Ch. 11 (2005)
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