• Semester 1 (External)

Synopsis

This unit focuses on the management aspects of the design of logistics
support  systems for new products and capital equipment.  It  includes
both  the  "military"  approach to logistics  through  the  Integrated
Logistics  Support (ILS) methodologies and the traditional  "business"
logistics  areas  of inventories, warehousing and transportation.  The
unit  emphasises  the  life-cycle approach to  logistics  support.  It
considers  how  reliability, availability and maintainability  factors
influence  design  and  life cycle costs,  the  concept  of  ILS,  the
elements  of  ILS (maintenance planning, supply support, manpower  and
personnel,  training and training devices, technical data, facilities,
packaging,   handling,  storage  and  transport,  support   and   test
equipment,  and  computing  support),  and  logistics  operations  and
coordination. It includes related topics on logistic support  analysis
(LSA), modelling and simulation and the practice of logistics in  both
private and public enterprises.