The aim of this course is to examine shipment planning and routing processes in business logistics from order approval to vehicle selection, loading, documentation, costing, and route planning. Within the scope of the course, students are expected to gain the ability to plan shipment resources by considering operational constraints, analyze basic routing problems, and formulate and solve logistics optimization problems such as transportation, assignment, and scheduling problems.

Practical examples of types of shipment, vehicles and their properties, loading and shipping problemsThis course covers shipment planning in business logistics, order approval and listing, warehouse-shipment relations, determination of product quantities to be shipped, vehicle selection, operational problems in loading and transportation, shipment documents, routing planning, transportation, assignment and scheduling models, shipment costs, and pricing through case studies and problem-solving applications.