Modules
We have created a learning pathway that enables you to become a change agent to improve your company’s supply chain performance and support transformation.
The core modules are:
Empower (30 credits)
Strategic Thinking in the Supply Chain
You will develop your capabilities to think and act strategically, so that you can leverage the supply chain to support the business strategy and deliver sustained competitive advantage.
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Personal Leadership and Influencing Change
You will develop skills in learning to learn, promoting self-responsibility and to specifically address behavioural issues that limit individual achievement.
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Improve (50 credits)
Supply Chain Fundamentals
You will explore the basic concept of what a supply chain is and the underpinning building blocks of the supply chain; planning, manufacturing, procurement, logistics and circular economy.
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Please note, the Supply Chain Fundamentals module is a prerequisite for the Supply Chain Design module.
Performance Management for Success
You will critically evaluate performance measurement in relation to the delivery of customer and shareholder value, aligning with corporate accountability and compliance management.
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Supply Chain Design
Building upon the concepts introduced in the Supply Chain Fundamentals, you will learn about a coherent framework for end-to-end supply chain design from strategic, network and operating model perspectives.
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Please note, the Supply Chain Design module is a prerequisite for the Supply Chain Transformation module.
Transform (40 credits)
Innovation
We will introduce you to a variety of concepts, models and frameworks that will help you to understand the nature of creativity and innovation, to enable you and your team to be innovative.
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Supply Chain Transformation
We will share a framework with supporting models, tools and examples to enable you to consider transformative approaches to business models and supply chain design.
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Embed (60 credits)
MSc Project Dissertation
To gain your MSc you need to complete a company based project which will focus on a live issue within your organisation.
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