Logistics and Supply Chain Management Courses

This course covers business analytics concepts, tools, and their application in decision-making. It includes statistical analysis, modelling, and fact-based management techniques. Relevant to all business areas, it builds core skills for future analytics use.

This subject explores project management practice and the project manager's role. It suits industries relying on projects for new products, processes, and change.

It delves into cross-industry methods, techniques, and tools. Students apply these in team-based project proposals and assess industry practices against project management standards, underpinned by research.

This course equips students with problem-solving skills for complex business issues, guiding them to devise and pitch solutions within a business model framework.

Learners will pinpoint and research key assumptions in their business models, converting these into research questions and selecting suitable research approaches.

It incorporates a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) component, allowing students to apply skills in a work setting and gain industry feedback.

This subject delves into transport and freight distribution within supply chains and logistics. It examines the interconnectedness of freight distribution and the impact of transport on operational and logistical performance. Key focuses include retailing, distribution and marketing channels, city logistics, and transportation management. It addresses distribution planning, delivery postponement, marketing channel choices, and transport mode selection, exploring their effects on goods transportation and distribution.

This unit highlights the importance of e-supply chains in business logistics, presenting concepts and techniques for their design and implementation. It discusses relevant technologies and uses case studies to illustrate various e-supply chain strategies.

This subject explores the evolution of global logistics in the 21st century, including transport modes, nodes, hubs, and corridors. It covers the current context of global trade, outsourcing, trade patterns, and advances in logistical software and skills. The course also looks at international trade regulations and their impact on logistical systems, highlighting the challenges and opportunities.

Students gain skills and knowledge for effective work in global business, focusing on negotiation, establishment, and management of contracts in global supply chains.

The subject addresses the complexities in supply contract management, influenced by globalisation and production outsourcing. Included are literature reviews, case studies, lectures, industry guest talks, workshops, and seminars. Students will gain insights into contract creation and management frameworks, along with skills to identify and mitigate contractual risks.

Supply chain performance is crucial for stakeholders and can set a company apart from competitors. This subject focuses on strategy development to maximise value in value chains, building on introductory studies. It examines operations, integration and collaboration, and virtual supply chains through local and international case studies. This capstone unit enables students to integrate and reflect on their learning from the program, solidifying their understanding and skills.

This subject delves into strategic procurement management, covering concepts, theories, skills, and processes. It includes supplier selection, relationship management, negotiations on pricing and terms, and supplier performance management. The subject also provides a capstone experience for students to integrate, critically reflect on, and consolidate their learning from the program.

This unit focuses on key theories and practices in logistics system design and management, preparing students for roles in manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, and distribution. It explores distribution, warehousing, transportation, logistics integration, performance indicators, and the application of analytical techniques and mathematical models.

Case studies are used to demonstrate decision-making challenges encountered by managers and practitioners in modern business settings.

SCM involves a network of businesses working together to bring a product or service to market. This subject covers its basic concepts and principles, focusing on operational excellence, integration and collaboration, and virtual supply chains.

Through case studies, students will explore inventory management, just-in-time, and e-supply chain techniques. They'll also examine issues of integration, coordination, and collaboration across organisations and throughout the value chains.

One way to foster sustainable growth is by recovering more materials from waste. Environmental regulations are making companies accountable for their waste, while waste disposal costs rise.

Considering these shifts, leading companies see that reverse logistics and source reduction can offer a competitive edge. This subject examines the intersection of supply chain planning and environmental impact, introducing sustainability, reverse and lean logistics, including reuse, recycling, and remanufacturing, plus green supply practices.

The subject covers product take-back policies, life cycle assessments, corporate social responsibility, and international standards like ISO 14000, exploring their effects on supply chain practices and reverse logistics network design.