Professional fields
The challenging, interdisciplinary study of logistics offers its graduates a wide range of possible professional fields in different areas (e.g. industry, trade, transport) or interface functions (e.g. in consulting or education). For example:
- Logistics services
- Logistics software support
- Logistics publishing houses and media companies
- Logistics financial services
- Civil service
- System houses
- Associations and organizations
Possible areas of work might involve the organisation, planning and coordination of:
- Procurement
- Distribution
- Production
- Materials flow and materials handling
- Shipping and sales
- Warehousing (warehouse inventory management, supervision of storage times)
- Transport
- Disposal
Graduates' competences lie for example in the areas of:
- Process control
- Capacity planning and control
- Planning of supply chains
- Tracking of goods and manufacturing flows
- Control and handling of customer specific orders
- Information management
- Control of communication processes
- Management support and control systems
- Personnel management


