Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (CIPS Accredited)

Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Course Description:

'' This course is fully accredited by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)

The course comprises the range of management subjects suitable for a Masters level qualification in purchasing and supply chain management and is designed for professional practice at middle management and higher levels of management in this specialism.

As a well-established part of Aberdeen Business School’s portfolio of courses, the PgDip/MSc Purchasing and Supply Chain Management course is regularly updated to reflect current management thinking and practice.

This course is suitable if you intend entering the profession of purchasing and supply chain management or if you are a manager wishing to study this specialist area of management - you may have a working knowledge of purchasing and supply chain management but have no formal qualification in this area.

The course centres on management practice and takes a more specialist focus than the MBA. You will study the following modules:

Business Environment

Finance for Managers

Operations Management

Managing People

Purchasing Principles and Law

Supply Chain Management

Strategic Purchasing

Research Methods

Dissertation

Benefits of this course
This masters course will develop your knowledge and understanding, business/management practice (applied knowledge and understanding) and management skills in purchasing and supply chain management suitable for professional practice at middle management and higher levels of management.

The course is available in a range of Flexible Study Modes so you can study Full Time (3 semesters study in ONE academic year); Part Time (part time day and evening) study over 2 years for taught stage and one further year for dissertation stage; or Online Learning (part time). It is possible to transfer from one study mode to another should circumstances change.

Flexible Exit and Change Points

Following completion of 4 modules, learners may exit with PgCert Management Studies. At this point it is also possible to transfer to certain other specialist PGDip/MSc courses within the Graduate Management Studies Programme. On completion of the taught stage of the course it is possible to exit with PgDip Purchasing & Supply Chain Management.

Specialist Focus

The course enables the student to focus on a specialised and strategically important aspect of business. The course will explore a wide range of analytical theories and models and encourage the application of these to contemporary organisational situations. If the theory provides the platform for analysis, it is the interaction with fellow students and teaching staff that often encourages creativity in the application of knowledge to the process of strategy formulation.

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Management Development
This course is a management development programme in purchasing and supply chain management and comprises the range of subjects suitable for:

recent graduates of any discipline who wish to pursue postgraduate studies in preparation for a career in purchasing and supply management
purchasing and supply chain specialists who wish to develop their professional practice and require a qualification to support practical experience
managers of other related disciplines who wish to progress into a career in purchasing and supply chain management
practitioners who have graduated through the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Programme and wish to further their studies at a strategic level, suitable for those aspiring to more senior management positions ...''

Phone:+44 (0)1224 262000

School Address:

Aberdeen Business School
The Robert Gordon University
Garthdee Road
Aberdeen AB10 7QE
UK

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