Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc (Executive) Brochure

Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Executive) MSc, PgDip, PgCert

Your course This course has been designed for experienced business logistics, supply chain or procurement practitioners who want to enhance their skills and knowledge. This course will: • raise your awareness and appreciation of advanced logistics, procurement and supply chain practices, • develop your ability to critically select the tools and techniques that are most relevant to the challenges you face, • demonstrate how best to provide effective leadership throughout the supply chain life-cycle, • enable you to carry out independent and robust research that is relevant to your organisation, • enhance your knowledge and capability to manage and plan supply chains within an overall business environment in an integrated and coordinated way. Accreditation Our Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc (Executive) is accredited by both the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. This ensures our course is relevant and informed by the latest industry thinking and developments. You may apply for full membership to these institutions upon successful completion of your course, providing significant benefit to your career and professional development. Cranfield School of Management is also the first UK-based University to gain the European Logistics Association accreditation. Upon completion of the course, you will be eligible to apply for the designation cESLOG (European logistician), which is valid for five years.

Cranfield boasts one of Europe's largest specialist logistics, procurement and supply chain management faculty, and is renowned as a centre of excellence in this field. We have been delivering world-leading, internationally-recognised supply chain research and education for over 35 years. Our reputation in this field enables us to partner with a diverse range of international organisations and employers to ensure that you are equipped with the additional, high-level skills you need to meet the evolving needs of industry, now and in the future. Our Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc (Executive) course has been co-designed with senior supply chain practitioners. It offers the opportunity to study for an internationally recognised master's qualification and to acquire the latest academic insights and industry best practice for the benefit of your organisation. Benefits to your organisation Your organisation can sponsor you by funding your studies fully or in part, and/or by allowing you time out of work to study. By doing this, your organisation will realise both short and long-term benefits: As you become more effective, more analytical and more adaptable, you will be better equipped to contribute to strategy development and to apply best practice in your organisation. Your organisation will retain a high-performing manager so that you can drive the business forward, meet future challenges, solve complex problems, and implement change. The individual thesis project can be tailored to suit your organisation and deliver a specific piece of research or consultancy work of particular value to them. The course offers you the opportunity to network with mature professionals from a range of industry backgrounds and countries, providing a continual source of new ideas and benchmarks.

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