B.Com. (Honours with Research) with Specialization in Business Management Logistics Management Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the SY BCom BM syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. The University clubbed this degree with B.Com., B.Com. (Accountancy) and B.Com. (Business Economics) on 25 May 2026 and now awards it as B.Com. (Commerce and Management), with Business Management as the Major: the papers below are the ones its own Board of Studies sets, so your exam form may name the degree differently from your admission letter. The four Major papers of Semesters III and IV are the four credit versions the University issued on 5 August 2026, which carry twice the modules of the two credit papers set for these semesters before them.
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Syllabus for Logistics Management
Module I: Introduction to Logistics Management
- Meaning and Definition, Nature, Evolution, Importance, Types of logistics, Functions of logistics, Logistics Performance Cycle, Principles
- Overview of logistics industry-Indian and global logistics market, Logistics Skill Council, Competitive advantage of logistics
- Design logistics network-Steps and factors, Integrated Logistics System, 3Cs and logistics, Barriers to logistics
Module II: Elements of Logistics system
- Transportation – Mode of transportation, functions and Principles
- Inventory management- Meaning, functions, Importance, Material Handling equipments’
- Packaging and Warehousing
- Packaging- Functions, Essentials of good packing, Types of packaging
- Warehousing- Types of warehouses, Functions
Module III: Introduction to Supply Chain Management
- Meaning and definition, features, Importance, functions, Process, Role of logistics in SCM
- Supply Chain Intermediaries and its types, Channels of Distribution for goods and services, Factors to be considered for selecting suitable channel
- Role of customers and ways to improve customer service in SCM, customer value
Module IV: Modern Logistics
- Logistics Outsourcing-benefits and issues, Logistics Service Providers (LSP) and its types, Logistics Information System
- Competencies for logistics career, Sub-sectors of logistics, Career opportunities in logistics sector.
- Modern Logistics Infrastructure, Future of Logistics sector, Role of technology in logistics
References
- Logistics Management, S.L.Ganapathi and S. K.Nandi (2015), OXFORD
- Performance Modeling of Automated manufacturing Systems, N. Viswanadham and Y.Narahari, Prentice Hall of India, 1998
- Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindel, Prentice Hall of India, 2002.
- Modeling the Supply Chain, Jeremy F. Shapiro. Duxbury Thomson Learning, 2001
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Com. (Business Management) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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