M1.7 - Information Technology

• Basics of Management Information Systems: introduction to IT, information systems in the enterprise, electronic business and electronic commerce, MIS hardware and software, managing data resources, electronic data interchange, data coding and classification, databases and data warehouses, basics of database management systems, etc.
• The role of IT in LSCM.
• Major subsystems and internal operation of Logistic Information Systems (LIS)
• Basic information technologies in logistics: tracking & tracing (GPS, Galileo, etc.), identification (barcoding, RFID), communication (wireless, mobile, networking, EDI, etc.).
• IT systems/applications (Warehouse Management Systems, Inventory Management Systems,Transportation Management System, Enterprise Resource Planning, Production Planning and Control, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Event Management, Customer Relationship Management, etc.).
• Cases in LIS application