Lectures

1. Introduction 2. Location 3. Transport 4. Networks 5. Routing 6. Inventory

All models follow the Model Format Reference.

1. Introduction

1.1 Modeling

What is logistics engineering? · Scope of logistics decisions · Modeling: representation and prescription · Levels of modeling · Level 0: Guesstimation · Level 1: Mean value analysis · Getting started: Claude Code and the toolchain · How the course’s files move

1.2 Julia, LLMs, and Validation

Julia · Large Language Models · Validation

script · video

1.3 System Performance Estimation

Bracketing · Production systems · Little’s Law · Variability and the Poisson process · Throughput feasibility · Level 2: Cycle-time estimation · Level 3: Simulation · Stationarity · Where variability goes in a line

script · video

2. Location

2.1 Types of Location Problems

Taxonomy of location problems · Competitive vs cooperative location · “Nonlinear” vs minisum objectives · Solving the minisum problem by hand · Other location objectives · A taxonomy of objectives

2.2 Single-Facility Minisum

The weights: monetary vs physical · Procurement and distribution · The single-facility minisum · Logjam: the course’s logistics toolkit · Computing distances with Logjam

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2.3 Multifacility Location–Allocationsoon

2.4 UFL Heuristicssoon

2.5 Aggregate Demandsoon

2.6 Logistics Network Designsoon

2.7 Discrete Location and MILPsoon

3. Transport

3.1 Overview of Freight Transportsoon

3.2 One-Time Truck Shipmentssoon

3.3 Periodic Truck Shipmentssoon

3.4 Transshipmentsoon

4. Networks

4.1 Assignment and Transportationsoon

4.2 Shortest Paths and Road Networkssoon

4.3 Prod-Inv: Single Productsoon

4.4 Prod-Inv: Multiple Productssoon

5. Routing

5.1 Traveling Salesman Problemsoon

5.2 Route-based Construction Proceduressoon

5.3 Vehicle Routingsoon

6. Inventory

6.1 Work, Econ, One-Time-Safety Stocksoon

6.2 Periodic Safety Stocksoon

6.3 Multi-Echelon Inventory Systemssoon