Logistics Engineering - Fontys University

The programme
The complexity of processes and the relationships between manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, demands intelligent creation of networks. That’s what Logistics Engineering is about. Think of products like fashion, electronics, food or cosmetics, all are preceded by major logistical processes which need to be aligned and optimized.
As a Logistics Engineering student you learn to evaluate logistical processes and consequently. come up with new process designs, improvements, and implement these designs and improvements.

What do you focus on?
- Intelligent production processes to save costs
- Smart warehousing to guarantee a high customer service
- Quick transport through air, rail, road or shipping to ensure that your products arrive on demand
- Operations research makes you capable in calculating complex scenarios for improvements
- Data simulation and IT programming to align to smart factories and artificial intelligence

Year 1
Students of Logistics Management and Logistics Engineering follow a joined programme in the first three semesters. Within these three semesters students are taught the basics of logistics. By means of company examples and company visits you get a quick feeling of what the main tasks of a logistician are, and where logistics can be found within different companies. Subsequent to this you get the basics in warehousing and material handling. Here you learn how goods move in regional, national, and international networks consisting of suppliers, producers and consumers. Next to this you acquire general business knowledge and relevant soft skills such as professionalism, teamwork, self-reflection and communication.

Year 2
In the second academic year you deepen and enlarge your knowledge. After the third semester you choose for either Logistics Management or Logistics Engineering. This gives you the opportunity to specialize. Within Logistics Engineering you have subjects like “Supply Chain Management” and “Operations Management”. Within these modules you learn how to design warehouses together with (new) customers in a goal-oriented way. Besides that, you work on concepts to improve the flow of materials within a company, or between multiple companies. A basic understanding of IT-systems helps you to optimize these processes.

Year 3
In the first semester of year three, you do a work placement in a company and industry of your choice. As a future professional, you apply yourself for this work placement allowing you to already practice your application skills for the future. During the work placement you deepen your knowledge in the real business world. The work placement can be completed in a country of your choice.
In the second semester of year three, you deepen your knowledge in a specific theme within a minor programme. The minor programme provides you with the opportunity to acquire knowledge in another field then your major. You can choose to do this minor at Fontys, at one of our partner universities in the Netherlands, or at one of our 125 partner universities all over the world. Doing your minor abroad at one of our partner universities abroad allows you to acquire further language skills and experience a new culture.

Year 4
Semester seven is your last semester on campus. During this semester the main focus of your classes and projects is on the field of Supply Chain Management.
In the final semester you do another work placement and work on a practical problem within a company. You report the solutions to this practical problem in your final product: the graduation report. Once having concluded this final part of the study programme, you are rewarded with the internationally recognized degree Bachelor of Science.

Career prospects
Being a Logistics Management student gives you different professional perspectives. Possible jobs: Supply Chain Manager / Intra Logistics Process Manager / Distribution Network Designer / Head of Purchasing / Team Leader Warehouse Operations / Consultant / Process Manager / Business Developer / Operations Manager / Synergy Manager / Head of Customs Department