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This course focuses on the role of the Transportation/Logistics function in complex supply chain networks. Strategic aspects of transportation infrastructure, as well as tactical planning and operational decision making, involving transportation and related activities, will be emphasized, towards gaining sustainable economic efficiencies and achieving competitive advantage in today’s intensely competitive global economic environment. Topics covered include various modes of goods movement, the effects of public policy and regulations, costing and pricing of transportation activities, transportation planning/execution decisions and the inter-relationships between transportation/logistics and the other major supply chain activities across functional boundaries.