Operations and supply chain management is much more than simply moving items from A to B. It’s a diverse, evolving discipline that's fundamental to the flow of goods and provision of services all around the world, adapting to changing consumer expectations, shifting economic conditions, achieving sustainability principles, and emerging technologies, among a range of other global issues. This course offers the advanced understanding and practical skills to master it all.

You'll learn from leaders in the field, exploring the latest issues around supply chain sustainability and the international regulatory environment, while getting to grips with enterprise systems like SAP and tackling the challenges of managing strategic procurement.

We also offer a range of option units, giving you the chance to shape your studies around your interests and professional aims. From there, you’ll be ready for your dissertation, picking a topic of your own interest and putting the theory into practice.

Industry connections

Our teaching team are all experienced professionals working at the forefront of their respective areas. We're well connected with the industry, working closely with institutes, associations and employers to make sure our courses offer the skills you'll need in your career.

We also have close links with external professionals, often our alumni, ensuring you hear voices from the industry and have access to practical advice and insight.

The course is accredited by both the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS).

Operations, logistics and supply chain management expertise is critical in the current global trade environment. As a graduate from this course, you’ll leave us with transferable skills and knowledge which are in demand across a vast variety of industries and sectors, from manufacturing, retail and FMCG, to construction, investments and even charity.

You will be equipped to purse a range of roles, from supply chain and operations, to procurement and inventory management, particularly through graduate schemes with global businesses like Proctor & Gamble, Unilever and Johnson & Johnson. You could even follow in the footsteps of your fellow graduates working today in management roles at the likes of Amazon, 3M, Sainsbury’s and Heineken.