MSc SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATIONS AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

As someone who works in operations, supply chain and logistics management, you can be the difference between success and failure for a business, and other organisations such as charities and governments. On this one-year MSc degree, you will be trained to be an industrial problem-solver, ensuring products and services are delivered efficiently, effectively, on time, and on budget with appropriate emphasis on complex supply chain/logistics strategies, and practical problem-solving approaches to contemporary and emerging issues.     

This degree is ideal if you have already studied supply chain or logistics management or operations management and want to take your skills to the next level. Equally, you might have a degree in IT, engineering, supply chain or logistics, operations management, finance, accounting, or general management. 

About

Every product or service that comes to market relies on the expert combination of human power, material resources and financial investment. As an MSc Supply Chain Operations and Logistics Management student, you will explore how to bring these elements together successfully. You’ll learn how to anticipate and respond to problems, and how to create order in the most complex situations.  

The course is carefully designed to help you understand the primary and supporting activities in a value chain, and operations, supply chain and logistics management practices. You will study key areas, such as inventories, materials management, procurement, transportation, warehousing, supply chain and logistics operations, sustainable / low-carbon supply chains and logistics, innovations and technology management, circular supply chains, and simulations in supply chain operations. You’ll also explore the application of technologies to supply chain and logistics management. 

Our teaching is research-led, including from UEA’s respected Innovation, Technology and Operations Management group (ITOM), ensuring you benefit from the very latest thinking in this rapidly changing field. Rather than relying solely on textbooks, you’ll be taught the latest supply chain, operations and logistics innovations reported in academic and practitioner journals. We have strong links to industry, and you will also learn from practising experts and guest speakers.  

You will learn by analysing case studies to gain valuable insights into real workplace problems and their possible solutions. This study of real-life and created cases means you can fast-track to having the kind of industry expertise that might otherwise take years to amass. Throughout your degree, you will take an international view, ensuring that you graduate ready to take your skills across borders. 

As well as developing essential specialist skills, this course will help you improve key transferable skills, including critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, decision-making, and effective use of information and communications technology. You’ll also build your experience in teamwork, management and giving presentations – including to non-supply chain / logistics specialists. This experience will give you an edge when you graduate.  

We can provide you with access to a UK-based company that’s facing a real business challenge. The insights you gather will form the basis of your dissertation, which will be brought to life by real-world examples. Together, the theoretical knowledge and practical experience you gain will help you demonstrate your full potential to future employers. 

After the Course

You will graduate as an expert analyst and problem-solver for enterprise and business. You’ll be ready to help businesses and organisations of all kinds deliver their products and services to where they need to be, in even the trickiest of situations – whether that’s getting lifesaving drugs to a remote village in Africa, putting the latest technology into the hands of consumers, helping to keep the UK fashion industry up to date with the latest looks, or other equally challenging demands. 

You will be ready to launch a career working in a logistics company, or as a supply chain, logistics or operations specialist within a business. You could also work in organisations as an operations manager, inventory or materials manager, warehouse professional, freight forwarding professional, enterprise resource planning specialist, and supply chain/logistics analyst. 

Your skills will be highly sought after in both manufacturing and services organisations, and in the private, public and third sectors. 

Alternatively, you could go on to further study, for example, a PhD, potentially undertaking research that could benefit entire industries. 

Career destinations

A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.

Examples of careers you could enter after this degree include:

• Operations manager 
• Purchasing manager 
• Supply chain / logistics manager 
• Supply chain / logistics consultant 
• Supply chain / logistics analyst  
• Entrepreneur