Kaunas, Lithuania
DURATION
7 Semesters
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
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Key Summary
Introduction
Professionals who can create, qualitatively implement and manage logistics activities sustainable to the environment, the ones who know well the latest commercial trends and methodology and are able to use IT programmes in the field of logistics are in high demand nowadays. If there is a trade, logistics is needed and if you know logistics and commerce, it is the perfect background for shaping your future.
Why Logistics and Commerce programme?
- Logistics and commerce create the comfort of today’s society;
- Transport systems connect the whole World – logistics specialists are needed everywhere, where are transport operations (transportation of goods);
- With strong knowledge and a wide approach, you will become a highly demanded specialist with job opportunities in the biggest logistics and commerce companies;
- You will be able to work in domestic or international companies;
- You will get the knowledge of economics, management, and entrepreneurship, so you’ll become a professional in the biggest companies, create your own successful business or continue your studies at the MSc level.
Admissions
Program Outcome
Upon the completion of the study programme, You will be able to:
- Explain the essence of entrepreneurship, learn, and compare the specifics of logistics and commercial activities related to business organizations and the possible effect on the environment, business decisions, and the general public.
- Explain the economic, social, and technological business resources and processes, issues, and the importance of their decisions in planning, forecasting, and assessing the management of the logistics and commerce organizations, process and results of business organization, and is able to use the basic theoretical arguments or theories for substantiation of the managerial decisions in logistics and commercial operations
- Develop competitive and socially responsible businesses in the domestic and international markets.
- Identify the key business categories and phenomena defined by them, key business and management principles, methods, and strategies, and the diversity of business organization forms as well as the factors affecting the choice thereof, the financial and other resource accounting and management methods as well as the applicability.
- To collect and analyze the data necessary for addressing important issues in logistics and commerce by using the achievements and methods of the fundamental and applied research as well as organize and conduct applied research in consumer and competitor behavior, employee motivation, responsibly prepare the information necessary for managerial decision-making in logistics and commerce.
- Establish logistics and commerce companies, plan, organize, coordinate, and evaluate their operations, choose integrated technological, organizational, and methodological measures for the management of the business environment, and able to develop competitive and socially responsible businesses in the domestic and international markets.
- Manage business information flows, social, and technological processes, and the interaction in the operations of logistics and commerce organizations, analyze and substantiate the decisions in the areas of human, financial, material resource planning, organization, coordination, control, information management, and evaluation of the economic condition and performance.
Career Opportunities
Logistics and Commerce programme graduates are able to work in logistics, supply management, transportation, warehousing, and transshipment service companies as the coordinators of logistics, intermediaries, representatives, and administrators at the logistics, supply management, transportation, warehousing, and transshipment companies of Lithuania, 3PL (third-party logistics model), 4PL (fourth-party logistics model) organizations, agricultural supply, and logistics companies, and organizations coordinating these activities, companies operating in the procurement of agricultural raw materials, processing and trade thereof, agricultural and logistic facilities, retail sector, and shipment networks, as well as develop own business in logistics and commerce.
Upon successful completion, the graduates could continue the second-cycle studies in the fields of Social Sciences.