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MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management

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    MSc 1 year full-time (September start), 17 months full-time (January start)

Course Description

Integrate your business skills with mathematical analysis for a modern operational career with this MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management degree course. You’ll explore the flow of information between suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and consumers, and find ways to streamline your company’s activity for improved effectiveness and efficiency.

You’ll be working with quantitative data and analytical techniques, applying developments in logistics technology, and learning from professional research into the current issues in operations and supply chain management. You’ll have access to industry-standard software such as Simul8, and to case studies drawn from live problems in the profession. You’ll plan and produce a personal research-driven project, perhaps with an industrial partner organisation, and will study with lecturers who contribute to both the academic and industrial streams of this sector.

You’ll graduate with all the tools required for a career in logistics and operations management, either in the UK or further afield.

You can start this course in September or January.

Entry Requirements

Qualifications or experience

  • A second-class honours degree in a relevant subject, or equivalent professional experience and/or qualifications.

English language requirements

  • English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

If you meet our criteria, you could get a £3000 tuition fees discount – visit website for details

Student Destinations

It’s always been critical to most organisations, but the increasingly data-driven nature of logistics and supply chain management, or Logistics 4.0, demands a new kind of graduate who can apply mathematical principles and analysis to the industry.

This degree’s focus on mathematical problem solving and decision making will qualify you for a career in the traditional areas of manufacturing logistics, distribution and supply chain management on graduation. But you’ll also have the skills and knowledge to work in industries such as quality control, facilities planning, postal and express delivery, the emergency services, the military and defence industry.

Graduates of this course have gone onto roles such as:

  • Logistics specialist
  • Supply chain buyer
  • Transport line manager
  • Quality inspector

Module Details

All modules on this MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management are core.

  • Logistics Modelling – 30 credits
  • Operations Management – 30 credits
  • Strategic Logistics – 30 credits
  • Supply Chain Management – 30 credits
  • Project – 60 credits

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