World of Logistics & Supply Chain Management

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We are a postgraduate only university with several schools specialising on Master and doctorate level degrees as well as open management courses and bespoke programmes for companies. The School of Management holds the triple accreditation – only 1 percent of business schools globally do so. We maintain close links to industry in our aim to provide customised education that truly reflects current issues in industry.

At Cranfield, our aim is to develop logistics, procurement and supply chain professional who can take the skills from our programme and make a significant difference in the marketplace. As director for our full time programmes in supply chain management, I will introduce our MSc degrees in Logistics and Supply Chain Management as well as Procurement and Supply Chain Management. Our programmes have been taught for almost 40 years by Europe's largest specialist supply chain management faculty. They are informed by senior supply chain professionals, fully accredited by CIPS and CILT, and have been ranked at the very top of Master programmes in the UK and globally by the 2021 QS University Rankings.

The taster lecture cover mobile robot systems in warehousing – a key activity in supply chains. A take-away from the E-commerce boom and other market developments is that in order to deal with increased volumes, decisions need to be taken about which kinds of automation to invest in throughout the various parts of a warehouse, including transport and conveyance, picking and packing, and even dock and loading operations. For each process, establishing the best type and the required level of automation is key. There is a vast number of choices available from warehouse automation providers and they are often more than happy to sell these regardless of your actual requirements. Hence, when making decisions, all elements of the process should be considered such as average and peak volumes, special picking requirements, or handling characteristics. In this talk we will introduce a selection of novel robot systems alongside multiple decision variables, such as cost, flexibility, and the scalability of a solution.