About the program
Program "Logistics"
Our slogan: Logistics always keeps moving!
Logistics is a system that connects, organizes, controls, coordinates and optimizes all the elements of business structure in order to maximize the enterprise efficiency.
Just a few years ago, the word logisticians implied experts in the delivery and storage of goods. Nowadays this concept has become broader, and by “specialist in logistics”, we mean any specialist who can analyze a full cycle of works at the enterprise to achieve savings. Logisticians analyze each stage of the business process from a raw material purchase to the sale of final product, and find ways to reduce costs by 10 or even 20-30%.
There are more and more narrow specializations appearing in logistics. Procurement professionals work with suppliers, distribution logistics specialists deal with sales enquiries, production logistics specialists provide optimization of production costs, and this is not the entire list of existing specializations. The logistician is also considered to be a customs clearance specialist, who saves huge sums of money at export and import.
To become a highly paid specialist in logistics, you need to combine knowledge of an economist, skills of a manager, and talent of a good public relations specialist. Logistician-economist should always work equally fast and well, because any breakdown can inflict serious damage on the company's finances and image. To work in the field of logistics one should be good at exact sciences, have developed logical thinking and show interest in economics.
Personal qualities of a logistician
First of all, a logistician should be an excellent negotiator able to communicate confidently with counterparties as well as with truck drivers. Many companies use integrated IT solutions, so a specialist must be able to use the necessary software efficiently.
We should not forget that a logistician is also an analyst. A professional should be able to plan the supply chain and business processes thoroughly, and find solutions of their optimization. Such skills are inherent only in those specialists who understand mathematical logic and like mathematics at school.
Our students
- visit specialized exhibitions
- attend seminars, open lectures by well-known foreign specialists with high achievements in logistics
- go to national and international scientific and practical conferences
Assigned Qualification: Logistician
Study period:
- full-time – 4 years
- part-time / distance-learning – 3 years 4 months
Where can I work and what is my future occupation?
- Freight forwarding services;
- Inventory management;
- Logistics management;
- Warehousing organization and management;
- Terminal handling of goods organization and management;
- Customs clearance and distribution of goods;
- Logistics process coordination;
- Strategic planning and management organization;
- Organization of physical distribution and marketing of finished products etc.
Special courses
Humanities:
- Philosophy
- Political science
- History
- Sociology
- Logic / Psychology of interpersonal relations
- Economic history / Economic sociology
Basic courses:
- Economic theory
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- International economy
- National economy of Belarus
- Environmental economics
- Production technologies
- Logistics organizations marketing
- Legal regulation of economic activity
- Foreign business language
- Enterprise economy
- Operations management
- Fundamentals of management / Organization finances
Special courses:
- Computer information technologies
- Statistics
- Econometrics and economic-mathematical methods and models
- Logistics and supply chain management
- Coursework in "Logistics and Supply Chain Management"
- Purchasing logistics
- Distribution logistics
- Transport logistics
- Warehouse logistics
- Inventory management
- Basics of pricing
- Information technologies and systems in logistics
- International logistics
- Management of logistics costs in the supply chain
- Accounting and analysis
- Corruption and its social danger
- Organization planning
- Strategic management in logistics
- Modeling and design of logistics systems
- Customs logistic / Customs law
- Freight forwarding / Management of economic risks
Practical Training
Introduces students to the characteristics of the profession. Students go on excursions to transport and productive organizations and work in logistics centers. Students study the main principles of logistics subdivisions working. They become familiar with production processes, freight and passenger transport (vehicle fleet equipment, formulation of accompanying documents); visit warehouses to know more about technical equipment, technological operations and to learn what methods are used to store products, etc.
- Manufacturing and analytical training
Helps students to choose their future profession and to decide on their research priorities. Students receive information on the work of some individual organizations; they make an overview, describe both the organization and structure, and carry out production and economic analysis. Students study the basics of modern procurement, production, transport, warehousing, distribution, customs, international, and financial logistics in greater detail. In addition, they work with the documentation according to the individual task, as well as with the regulatory framework.
- Manufacturing organizational and economic training
It’s aimed at acquiring professional skills. Students carry out a general production and economic analysis of the enterprise, learn the current logistics system as well as complete an individual task on the functional areas of logistics (procurement, transport, storage, distribution, customs, etc.). They also work in the following structural subdivisions: logistics, procurement, marketing and sales, planning and economic, warehouses, transport areas, customs, etc.
Reviews/references/responses
«PSU taught me never to stop and always to aim at new horizons»
Vitaly Zavadsky,
Graduation 2014,
JSC «Olivariya», specialist in logistics
«I’m grateful to the University and the Department that I never regret about the time when I have studied here, about the study programme that I’ve chosen! With a warm heart I remember about our lecturers and use their priceless pieces of advice»
Viktoriya Belskaya,
Graduation 2013,
LLC «Frutreal», procurement specialist
«My career and personal growth are built on the bases that have been established at the university»
Valeriya Bodritskaya,
Graduation 2013,
LLC «Frutreal», specialist in logistics
«PSU is a bright life, communication with talented people, constant self-development and priceless opportunity to become a professional in the specific field»
Tatiana Klimovich,
Graduation 2013,
Specialist in logistics, sector on transportation and storage work, JSC «Naftan»
