Department of International Logistics Management

Given the rising competitive conditions in Logistics sector, our department prepares its students for the highly challenging business life through improving their analytical thinking and problem solving skills.

“In the philosophical sense, Logistics means making a promise and fulfilling this promise.”
“Logistics is the science of sytematic, purposeful and logical movement of goods and services.”
“Logistics is an important philosophy and instrument in the management and control of time and place that creates sensitivity in all material and nonmaterial transactions and exchanges.”
Ömer Baybars Tek

Department of International Logistics Management was founded in 2009 under the framework of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. The Head of International Logistics Management Department, Prof.Dr.Ömer Baybars Tek is one of the three authors in Turkey who wrote the first high quality textbook in Logistics. On 1985 with Ömer Z.Aşıcı he coauthored a book titled “Fiziksel Dağıtım Yönetimi”. Between the years 1969 and 1971, Dr. Ömer Baybars Tek has also been the student and follower of world-wide known scholar Dr. Donald J. Bowersox, who is one of the forefathers of Logistics and also the Former Vice Dean of Michigan State University, the Eli Broad College of Business. Dr.Tek taught Physical Distribution classes between 1971 and 1987. Further, Dr.Tek has taught several courses including Consumer Behavior and Retail Management at the Department of Supply Chain Management, the Eli Broad College of Business in the USA between the years of 2001 and 2002.

Since the 1980s when Customer Oriented Marketing Approach was becoming widespread in national and global arena, Logistics has gained much more significance. Based on these developments, Department of International Logistics Management aims to equip its students with two foreign languages as part of the general university policy, and managerial skills that encompass flexibility, interdisciplinary approach and creative thinking.

Given the rising competitive conditions in Logistics sector, our department prepares its students for the highly challenging business life through improving their analytical thinking and problem solving skills.

The language of instruction of the Department of International Logistics Management is English.