Teaching at Cranfield School of Management is designed to nurture your practical business skills and confidence, and places huge emphasis on real-world challenges. This Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Part-time will raise your awareness and appreciation of advanced logistics and supply chain practices and develop your ability to critically select the tools and techniques that are most relevant to the challenges you are facing. The course will teach you how best to provide effective leadership throughout the logistics and supply chain life-cycle and enable you to carry out independent and robust research that is relevant to your organisation.
Cranfield School of Management was voted 1st outside the US and 8th worldwide in the 2015 ranking of the Best Universities for Supply Chain Management by Forbes.
Cranfield School of Management was ranked 1st outside US and 7th and 9th worldwide respectively for Academic and Supply Chain course performance in the 2016 ranking of SCM World Universities 100.
The course is in nine intensive week-long modules delivered at Cranfield with remote study in between. You will have the opportunity to attend a five-day international study tour, complete a supply chain simulation game based on a retail operation as part of a group project and individual thesis project providing you with an opportunity to investigate an area of particular interest to you and your organisation
Aims
This course is designed for experienced business logistics, supply chain or procurement managers who want to enhance their skills, knowledge and confidence to take on more demanding executive roles in the future. It is also suitable for ambitious professionals who are keen to develop themselves and want a "real-world" education delivered by faculty who are actively engaged with business.
This course is supported by Cranfield's world-leading faculty, research centres and strong connections with the industry. Our faculty team work closely with our advisory board of senior supply chain professionals from global organisations and leading academics from the Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Their experience and advice drives the continued development of this established course ensuring that it is relevant for today’s global supply chain environment. Comprising leading figures from the world of logistics, it recommends additions and amendments to the course to reinforce its relevance to the modern logistics world. Our part-time faculty is also supported by a diverse team of international visiting industry speakers and professors
Taught modules 60%, individual project 40%
Core modules
- Supply Chain Concepts
- Logistics Management
- Supply Chain Analysis & Modelling Tools
- Finance, Manufacturing and Inventory
- Supply Chain Information Systems and Procurement Management
- Supply Chain Design
- Quality and Performance in Supply Chains; Research Methods
- Supply Chain of the Future
- International class
- International faculty
- International study tours
