Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics MSc

University of Bedfordshire

Our 22-month MSc Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics prepares you for a range of management careers in logistics, procurement, supply chain, inventory and transportation. You develop the attributes and skills expected of postgraduates, as recognised by professional industry bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), while gaining practical knowledge of important concepts, tools and methodologies including JIT and Lean. The data analytics units enable you to synthesise complex information, with topics including big data, programming and the importance of analytics in decision making.What will you study?Studying our Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics MSc course will equip you with the knowledge and skills around supply chain networks, applied computing and information technology. You will be exposed to the developments and dimensions involved in designing a modern supply chain and examine key issues in its management within our Designing and Managing the Supply Chain unit. To do so, you will be taught to assess state of the art models and solutions used in the design, control, operation and management of supply chain systems. At the same time, this unit incorporates elements of Information Technology while considering customer value and international issues in supply chain management.Similarly, you will develop a solid understanding of supply chain and logistics concepts in our Integrated Supply Chain and Logistics Management unit. Here, you will consider key components in supply chain management such as demand estimation, dealing with uncertainty, packaging issues in transportation and managing inventory. This will allow you to understand the key challenges of integrating areas such as procurement, processing and distribution with proper management and control in supply chain operations. In addition, you will consider an increasingly important element to supply chain management in a contemporary business environment – sustainability. Business Sustainability in Practice will expose you to business impacts on the natural environment while allowing you to consider how these impacts can be managed to improve the environmental sustainability of large and small businesses to meet its obligations – such as transition to net or zero greenhouse gas emissions or other pollutants.CareersAs a graduate of this course you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to take up a career in business and management generally and specifically in procurement and the management of any aspects of logistics and supply-chain business. Your specialist skills in data analysis give you the option to focus on more IT-related roles in the field.This course is an appropriate foundation for further academic study at either MPhil or PhD level.

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