Supply Chain Leadership Professional Degree Apprenticeship | Logistics and Supply Chain Management BSc (Hons)
3 years part-time | January Start

This module continues to support your personal and professional development and follows on from the stage one module. In this module you will focus specifically on developing core management skills and understanding the theories, concepts and models that underpin those skills. You will work on further enhancing your personal effectiveness by focusing on how you work effectively with others, through collaborating, influencing, and negotiating. You will learn about building trust and rapport with others, using coaching skills as a manager, giving and receiving feedback, having performance conversations, delegation and the importance of networks.

The module aims to provide you with an understanding of the key elements of national and international transport. You will learn about how different forms of transport combine and operate to move goods and people around the world and how goods can effectively and efficiently be ordered, stored, despatched and delivered. This module will offer you a border understanding and an appreciation of the institutional challenges, tensions and future opportunities for growth within supply and distribution systems.

Within in this module, you will cover ten main topics:

1. Supply chain modelling;
2. Facility location and layout – as a means to improve sustainability, energy, cost and carbon reduction;
3. Warehouse operations, material handling and Japanese shop floor management;
4. Forecasting and inventory control;
5. Warehouse management and transport planning;
6. Hierarchical and aggregate planning;
7. Reverse logistics, closed-loop supply chain management and their links to sustainability and environment management;
8. Modal choice and intermodal transport;
9. Vehicle routing and scheduling, role of transportation in carbon reduction and energy efficiency;
10. Containerisation.

On completing the module, you will have developed knowledge and understanding of transport and inventory management and be able to critically evaluate their functional areas. You will also be able to apply this knowledge to business and management contexts, and compare and contrast the warehouse functions and the intermodal choices.

The module aims to provide you with the theories and principles of logistics and supply chain management and the knowledge and skills of applying them in real business practices. The module is delivered to you using weekly lectures and seminars, the seminars principally concentrate on the development of your problem solving skills and various soft skills, e.g. communication, presentation etc.

Within this module, you will cover eleven main topics:
• Logistics in manufacturing and service
• Order management
• Demand management
• Distribution strategy
• Supply chain technology
• Supply chain relationships
• Supply Chain performance measurement
• Supply chain network analysis
• Supply contract
• Supply chain integration (S&OP and CPFR)
• Supply chain sustainability
The module will lead you to the development of supply chain management skills and confidence in handling complex problems in supply chain. In doing so, it will expose you to a wide range of quantitative or qualitative models and techniques in analysing supply chain problems. You will be knowledgeable about the theory and practice of logistics and supply chain management and skilful in the use of various tools and techniques.

On completing the module you will be able to apply the theories and principles to analyse logistics and supply chain problems in a variety of situations. You will be capable of identifying the root causes of various supply chain problems and proposing relevant solutions.

The module aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills of applying a variety of Strategic Supply Chain Management (SSCM) knowledge at the subject interface to support business decision making in this area of subject. The module will be delivered using seminar sessions, principally concentrating on the development of your subject skills and interpretation of the subject area.

Within this module, you will cover twelve main topics:
• Logistics Planning Systems and Global SCM;
• Customer Service;
• Relationship Management;
• Benchmarking the Supply Chain;
• JIT and Quick Response Logistics;
• Inventory Management;
• Agile Supply Chain;
• Lean Thinking;
• e-Supply Chain;
• from Purchasing to Procurement;
• Reverse Logistics;
• Quality SCM and Lean Six Sigma.

You will undertake various seminar and case study exercises to build the skills and expertise in these Strategic SCM areas to support your group working and individual assignment work.

The module will develop your SSCM skills and confidence in handling the knowledge gained. Furthermore, you will gain an understanding of the role of the Supply Chain Manager and the development of various related business problem-solving skills.

On completing the module you will be able to select and apply the appropriate SCM techniques to support business problem solving in a variety of situations. You will have developed relevant skills to support the theoretical material introduced throughout the module. You will create and design appropriate organisation solutions as well as the use of a supporting theoretical underpin to SSCM problem solving.

The module aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills of applying a variety of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) and Risk models, tools and knowledge at the subject interface to support business decision making in this area.
You will be introduced to a range of theoretical approaches and case study exercise.

The module is delivered to you using taught and interactive sessions, principally concentrating on the development of your subject skills and interpretation of the subject area to build the skills and expertise to support your group and individual assignment work.

Within this module, you will cover twelve main topics:
• Sustainable Development and Climate Change Policy
• Sustainability and Supply Chain Management – Regulation, Standards and Compliance
• Environmental Evaluation - Strategy and Risk in Supply Chains
• Triple Bottom Line and GSCM
• Environmental Management Systems - ISO 14001
• Life Cycle Analysis
• Hazard and Risk in product-driven Supply Chains
• Responsible Business, Sustainable Development and CSR
• Waste Minimisation
• Reverse Logistics & Closed Loop Supply Chains in a Digital Age
• Managing for Risk
• Risk and Responsibility – Compliance, Governance and Duty of Care

On completing the module you will be able to select and apply the appropriate GSCM/SSCM and Risk techniques to support business problem solving in a variety of situations. You will have developed relevant skills to support the theoretical material introduced throughout the module. You will create and design appropriate case study solutions as well as the use of a supporting theoretical underpin to GSCM/SSCM problem solving.

You will learn through tutor facilitated workshops, skills practice, tutor guidance and feedback and independent directed and self-directed learning. Importantly, you will also learn at work, through reflecting on your experiences and applying your knowledge from the programme to your practice in the workplace. The workshops will introduce you to theories and concepts and allow you to discuss with the tutors and your peers how these relate to your own work based experiences and practice. You are encouraged to customise your individual portfolio so that it is directly relevant to what you need to learn, apply and evidence. The workplace provides a rich learning environment if you know how to plan, reflect and renew your own knowledge and skills through formal and informal modes of learning in practice. Importantly you will be required to review your learning and evidence with your workplace mentor and your individual coach on a regular basis, and provide evidence of the transfer of your learning into updating the knowledge, skills, behaviours and attitudes that underpin the development of your professional practice. Therefore, it is the evidence of how you have applied learning to improve your own practice in the workplace, which will demonstrate your competence in this module. This portfolio will enable you to demonstrate how you have applied your learning from across all modules into your workplace practice. You will be building a portfolio of evidence that illustrates your development as a logistics and supply chain specialist throughout the whole programme.