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Knowledge and understanding: the student will learn quantitative and IT tools to support managers in reducing the logistic costs and improving the service level. The focus is on international transportation and distribution logistics. These tools provide a basis for originality in developing and applying ideas to simplified versions of real cases studied in the course. Moreover, they could be used within a research context, when the student will prepare the master thesis.

Applying knowledge and understanding: the quantitative and IT tools learned in the course will allow the student to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader and multidisciplinary contexts, whenever the ability to make complex decisions is required.

Making judgements: the quantitative and IT tools learned in the course will allow the student to have the ability to formulate judgements on the evaluation of the cost effectiveness of different solutions and on the impact of the solution applied by the manager on the logistics system.

Communication skills: the student will be able to communicate the cost effectiveness of different solutions and the impact of the solution applied by the manager on the logistics system, to specialist and non-specialist audiences, clearly and unambiguously.

Learning skills: the student will learn an innovative teaching method, based on Problem solving, where the ability to formulate optimization and simulation models will be acquired on the basis of simplified versions of real cases. These models will be implemented in optimization and simulation software. The corresponding solutions will be evaluated and communicated in terms of cost effectiveness and impact on the logistics system. This method is a basis to have self-directed and autonomous learning skills.