Supply Chain and Logistics

Supply Chain and Logistics (Certificate) (Diploma) (Master Degree)

RMIT University has established a reputation of excellence in business and management education, providing high quality, industry responsive programs relevant for the national and global market place. RMIT Business helps create the future by undertaking business related research and by providing work-integrated learning that enables students to engage skilfully and passionately in business, locally and internationally.

The Master of Business (Logistics Management) provides you with a practical and theoretical approach to understanding the forces underlying the functions and operations of the supply chain. It offers a broad-based, capability driven curriculum aimed at enriching your skills in meeting the challenges of global markets in the face of rapid advances in information, communications and transport technologies. It places strong emphasis on addressing the strategic factors of servicing customers through the activities of dynamically complex supply chains. The courses offered blend theories, methods, and techniques within the context of logistics and supply chain management, with a strong accent on bringing theories to bear on practices.

Our objective is to enable you to conduct a critical examination of all factors that constitute a supply chain. In addition to studying supply chain concepts, you will consider the relationship of specific logistics operations to the supply chain, the measurement of logistics performance, and the management of operations in a distribution environment. It is ideally suited to people who have business or military experience, including management responsibility for aspects of logistics operations and systems.

Students generally are looking to advance their career in the supply chain or logistics field, or undertake studies to change career paths. You may expect to be employed in a wide range of industries locally and overseas.

About Supply Chain and Logistics

“Logistics is that part of the supply chain process that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information, from the point of origin to the point of consumption, in order to meet the customer’s requirements.â€?- Council of Logistics Management

Key benefits

Strong links with industry
Professionally accredited by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Australia
Opportunities to network with logisitics and supply chain professionals in Australia and overseas

Students on this International Supply Chain and Logistics Management MA course are a chosen mix of people from the UK, mainland Europe and the rest of the world. International teams for study and assessment are put together during induction. You will enjoy a culturally stimulating and enriching study experience in which classroom debate takes on a worldwide perspective. This diversity is valued by students, staff and graduates alike. The course will appeal to students interested in the supply chain and logistics aspects of international business.

What you will study
The masters programme builds on theory and practical application of key business functions to develop a sound understanding of the field of global business and in particular the role of supply chain and logistics management within that context. Strategic and operational perspectives are addressed. There is an emphasis on the practical skills essential for the modern international business manager specialising in supply chain and logistics management.

A major strength of the programme is the Consultancy Project, which provides you with the chance to put the theory learnt on the course into practice through a real-life consultancy project for a client company.
The MA in Supply Chain and Logistics Management has an enhanced focus on these special aspects of international business through the options and the dissertation.

Assessment
The assessment arrangements for this course are based on an appropriate mix of assessment approaches and include: formal examinations, coursework both on an individual and group basis; in-class presentations and reflective diary.

Core modules


Information ManagementStrategic Operations ManagementManaging People and OrganisationsOperations ManagementSupply Chain ManagementInternational Logistics Logistics

Elective modules


Consultancy PracticeInternational MarketingOutsourcing Fundamentals

Plus:


Research Methods and Dissertation

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