Business with Supply Chain Management
UCAS Code: N202
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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About this course
**Why Business with Supply Chain Management?
Business with Supply Chain Management is an innovative professional programme developed in partnership with the NOVUS Trust, an industry-led organisation that focuses on developing talent in the supply chain. This course includes a guarantee of employment provided you secure a 2.1 degree and achieve satisfactory references from your placement employer and is tailor made for people who are keen to go into supply chain management.**
A dynamic, successful business needs a strong and effective supply chain. We’ll look at how leading companies organise and manage their supply chain to ensure success.
How will you learn?
You will learn through practical application and delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and group work sessions.
- The course comes with a guarantee of employment**, it could be the first step towards a rewarding career.
- On your course, we’ll give you the chance to master the skills to take your place in this demanding yet rewarding field.
- We’ll look at how leading companies organise and manage the planning, sourcing, manufacturing and physical logistics of their supply chains.
- We’ll also give you the chance to develop your business management, leadership and decision making skills. We want to make you employable so you can take the next step in your career.
- On the course you’ll have a company mentor, so you’ll be dealing with someone who works in the industry.
- You’ll be able to take part in industry-led seminars and site visits.
- We’ll also give you the chance to take short paid placements and a placement year with a leading employer.
Previous students have taken placements with John Lewis, Sainsburys, Marks and Spencer, ASOS, Dixons Carphone, Travis Perkins, Nestlé, Muller and many others. The NOVUS Trust will also help you take things further and work towards other professional qualifications. Not only that, provided you secure a 2:1 degree and a satisfactory reference from your placement company, it will guarantee an offer of employment with one of the companies involved such as Morrisons, DHL, Arla and PZ Cussons when you graduate.
What subjects will you cover?
You’ll explore subjects such as Principles of Logistics, Organisational Behaviour, Planning Techniques for Logistics and Transport Operations, Purchasing and Supply, Physical Logistics Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management and Retail and Manufacturing Logistics.
** To qualify for the guarantee you will need to graduate with a 2.1 degree and achieve satisfactory references from your placement employer and your personal tutor at the University.
Modules
Year 1
Core modules:
Professional Aspects of Business
Markets and Marketing
Organisational Behaviour
Responsible Business Enterprise
Principles of Logistics
Year 2
Core modules:
Human Resource and Project Management Skills for Supply Chain Managers
Management Research Methods and Decision Making
Planning Techniques for Logistics and Transport Operations
Purchasing and Supply
Physical Logistics Management
Year 3
The course offers a compulsory (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, with one of the companies backing the NOVUS scheme.
Final year
Core modules:
Strategic Supply Chain Management
Management Work and Society
Managing Organisational Design and Change
Retail and Manufacturing Logistics
Project
Assessment methods
Study and assessments will be based on your choice of modules. Your module specification/course handbook will provide full details of the assessment criteria applying to your course.
Extra funding
Please see our website for full details of the scholarship http://www.hud.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-finance/undergraduate-scholarships/
The Uni
University of Huddersfield
Department of Management (BDMGMT)
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