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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