Logistics Management - Fontys University

As a Logistics Management student you learn to evaluate logistical processes, monitor performance, negotiate with external and internal partners, and optimize processes. Next to learning about logistical and supply chain processes you get a helicopter view of what is going on in companies, which makes it easier for you to see connections and communicate with other departments.
What do you focus on?
-Supply Chain Management and procurement
-Supplier Relationship Management
-Integrated logistics which brings all areas together
-Smart warehousing to guarantee high-quality customer service incl. customs management
-Working with IT and ERP-systems
-E-commerce
-Keeping a helicopter view on business performances through building digital performance charts

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 Management you have subjects like “Supply Chain Management” and “Organisation and Strategy”. You learn how to work with suppliers in an effective way, to detect synergies in procurement, and to optimize transportation networks. Your business knowledge enables you to set up performance measurement systems, and to monitor and optimize all steps in the logistics process.

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
During semester seven you spend your last semester on campus. During this semester you deal with supplier assessment, inventory management, supply chain management, and collaborative planning & forecasting.
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. Here a number of jobs you could work as a: 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