Logistics Systems
Logistics Systems is an MIT OpenCourseWare offering from the Engineering Systems Division, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Sloan School of Management. It surveys the analytic tools used to design and operate logistics systems and integrated supply chains, taught from a managerial perspective that emphasizes reducing total supply chain cost. The course builds fundamental models covering intra and inter-company logistics operations, then tests them against real industry examples rather than abstract theory or case studies alone. Materials include lecture notes, assignments, and readings drawn from MIT's graduate-level curriculum. The course sits between pure theory and case-study teaching, aiming to address problems practitioners actually face in warehousing, transportation, and network design. Free to access under MIT's open license, with no enrollment or certificate attached, this is coursework for anyone wanting the quantitative backbone behind modern supply chain management.