Bachelor in Logistics Management

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Year 1

In the first year, you will learn what logistics means for various sorts of companies, what differences there are between companies, and how you can survey all the logistics processes in a company or organization. You will become acquainted with subjects such as supply and purchasing management, law, and transport management. For this purpose, you will attend lectures, seminars, training sessions, or guest lectures which are often linked to group assignments. In the first year excursion week, you will see how logistics is applied in all sorts of companies; you will see the theory from the preceding weeks in actual practice – an eye-opener! Because logistics is an international area of specialization, considerable attention is paid to logistics in an international context.

Year 2

In the second year, there is more freedom of choice. You will expand your knowledge of logistics by becoming acquainted with intermodal transport, manufacturing systems, and automation techniques. In addition to this expansion of knowledge, at the end of the year, you can gain in-depth knowledge on a specific theme:

• Production logistics: coordinating, monitoring, and optimizing the production process.
• Transport: transporting products or services in a safe, quick, sustainable, and inexpensive manner as possible from supplier to client.
• Warehousing: optimizing the setup of warehouses.
• Care logistics: processes in the care sector concerning the optimal flow of goods (equipment and medicines), information, and people (patients and visitors).
• Event logistics: coordinating, monitoring, and optimizing logistics processes relating to events.

Year 3

In the third year, working in professional practice and studying at Breda University of Applied Sciences are alternated. You will go on a work placement twice for three months each at, for example, a production company, trading enterprise, hospital, or transport company. For the work placement, you can opt for the same focus as for the specific theme in the second year, but you can also explore a different area of logistics.

Examples of work placement assignments are:

• Improving customer service at a transport company
• Carrying out an analysis of a fleet of vehicles
• Carrying out an analysis of the flow of goods or visitors
• Setting up a purchasing plan
• Designing the set-up of a warehouse

In the latter half of this year (semester 6) at Breda University of Applied Sciences, you will work on taking a more in-depth look at the field of logistics in business games and simulations. In them, you work on making (smart) sustainable and economic choices around, for example, the themes of automation, supply chains, e-commerce, and entrepreneurship.

Year 4

At the beginning of the fourth year, you follow a minor; an in-depth minor in which you specialize further within your field of study, or you look beyond the borders of your field of study: an extended minor. In the second half of the fourth year you will carry out a graduation assignment for a company or organization with complex logistics flows, for example. Once again you can opt for sectors where you undertook your work placement in the third year or choose a completely different area of logistics.

Examples of graduation assignments are:

• Carrying out research into changing a mode of transport
• Improving the supply chain
• Introducing automation processes or the application of supply models

You will write a graduation thesis about this assignment which you will defend during the final exam.

Pre-masters

BUas offers its own pre-master's program Strategic Business Management and Marketing (SBM). If your academic results are good, you will be offered the opportunity to attend this pre-master’s program in your fourth year. Successful completion of this track will give you direct access, after Breda University of Applied Sciences, to various Master of Science programs in business-related studies in management and marketing at several partner universities. A few examples are the universities of Maastricht, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. In this way, it will be possible for you to earn an academic master's degree within five years or, after having completed an accelerated three-year track, even within four years.

After your fourth year, you can also opt for a pre-master’s program at a Dutch research university to gain direct access to their master’s programs.

Areas of specialization

At the end of the second year of study you will choose one of the following themes:

• Production Logistics
• Transport
• Warehousing
• Care Logistics
• Event Logistics

Get a job

Have you just graduated from a logistics training program? Then you are very wanted in the work field! If you choose to work, as a graduate you usually start in a junior or assistant position and you can grow into a management position. For example, logistics analyst, planner, consultant ICT, purchasing manager, supply chain manager, or project manager at transport companies, production companies, hospitals, ICT companies, event agencies, retail or consultancy firms.

• Small-scale degree programme with lots of personal contact with lecturers
• Focus on physical distribution, production, event and care logistics
• Serious gaming plays a part in gaining insights into logistics processes