- What are the core tasks and processes of logistics? How should they be integrated into the company processes? What are the success factors and where are the risks?
- How do supply chains work and who is involved? How can they be designed to be as efficient as possible and at the same time resilient and sustainable?
- How and with which methods can logistics processes be optimized? What contribution can Industry 4.0 concepts and the Internet of Things make?
- How can business management thinking be combined with digital technologies and technical concepts? Why is this link so important?
- What contribution can logistics make to solving current challenges and what are the issues of the future that logistics should be addressing now?
Theory and practice of Business Studies and Logistics
The seven-semester Bachelor's degree program in Business Logistics provides you with the specialist knowledge and key qualifications for comprehensive logistics competence. In addition to logistics content, the course provides you with all the necessary knowledge in the fundamentals of business administration and economics, business informatics, finance and accounting as well as business English. We offer you an interactive course with a wide variety of formats, from seminar-style lectures to case study-based courses, computer-aided work and business games. Actual application examples and case studies ensure that you learn what you need for your future career.
Theory and practice are closely interlinked in the study program, so that the transfer from theory to practice and vice versa takes place. You will get to know the variety of areas and facets of logistics in companies early on during company excursions. These excursions often provide students with starting points for internships and working student activities.
A wide variety of compulsory elective modules allow you to define an individual focus within logistics and thus sharpen your profile. Logistics focuses include, for example, purchasing and procurement, production logistics, planning logistics systems, the digital transformation of logistics and distribution logistics. The wide range of business-oriented subjects, such as project management, human resources and corporate management, business intelligence, trainer aptitude certificate, employment law and many more, complete the portfolio and give you the opportunity to choose according to your interests.
In the sixth semester, you can choose to spend a semester abroad or an internship semester in Germany or abroad. This allows you to put your knowledge into practice during your studies and get to know everyday working life.
After seven semesters, you will complete your studies with the Bachelor's thesis and a colloquium. A large proportion of the Bachelor's theses are written in cooperation with companies, not least due to the wide range of practical contacts. The spectrum ranges from logistics service providers and trading companies to industrial companies, such as car manufacturers and their suppliers, to research institutes and consulting firms.
After completing your studies, you can go straight into practice and apply your knowledge. However, we also offer you the opportunity to take the "Digital Supply Chain Management" stream in the Master's in Business Management in order to deepen your expertise in logistics and SCM, deal even more intensively with the digitalization of logistics processes and prepare yourself specifically for management tasks.
Applied research in logistics
Under the motto "Research-based teaching", we promote your skills on the basis of practice-oriented and project-related research activities as part of courses. Our professors are involved in key research areas and research institutes. For example, in the "Institute for the Digital Transformation of Application and Living Domains (IDiAL)", we research the influence of digitalization on logistics, mobility and infrastructures.
In addition, the spatial and content-related proximity to the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics (IML) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) enables direct, practical and highly topical research in logistics. Our professors are also active in associations such as the Bundesvereinigung Logistik e.V. (German Logistics Association) and the Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik e.V. (German Association of Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics).
Bachelor of Science for jobs in the logistics sector
After successfully completing the course, you will be awarded a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree. The degree enables you to take on specialist and management tasks in the fields of logistics, supply chain management and purchasing independently in industrial companies, trading companies and logistics service providers. You will benefit from the depth of the specialist knowledge taught and the breadth of the business management focus of the study program.
As mentioned above, there is also the option of taking the "Digital Supply Chain Management" stream in the Master's in Business Management.
