Overview

The seminar title is "Analytical Methods for the Logistics Professional" and aims for a streamline application of logistics analysis methods.
The underlying experience is low budgets and less time, but a high demand for analysis and prognosis of system support requirements. The practitioners have to get more done with fewer resources. Using increasingly sophisticated software assumes a level of familiarity with the underlying processes. The seminar describes the entire range of analytical processes and tools associated with the practice of modern logistics.

Course topics

• Introduction to Analysis for Decision Making
  
• The economics of decision-making, costs vs. benefits, evaluation costs over time, evaluating benefits of public goods, introduction to models
  
• The Analytical Disciplines of Logistics
  
• Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
  
• Alternative Concepts and uses
  
• Level of Repair Analysis
  
• LSA Logistic Support Analsys, the fundamental idea, the application of MIL-STD-1388
  
• Problems with LSA
  
• Related Disciplines: Reliability Analsys, modeling redundancy, block diagrams, hardware structure approach
  
• Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis
  
• Reliability Centered Maintenance
  
• Spares stockage calculation, availability, fill-rates, sparing to availability, stock optimization, relationship to Level of Repair Analsys
  
• Analytical Methods: Trade-off, Sensitivity, Simulation Logistics database issues and the idea of CALS