How does the course work?
Study Time:
You can study at a pace to suit you. IoSCM courses are studied entirely online so you can complete your studies at times to suit you.
If you can spend around 3 hours a week studying, you should be able to complete the course in 9 months for the Award, 23 months for the Certificate or 30 months for the Diploma. If you can spend more time studying than that, you could fast-track and complete the course faster.
Course Structure:
To gain the Award, you must complete the compulsory unit below.
To gain the Certificate, you must complete the compulsory unit, one elective unit and any one of the optional units.
To gain the Diploma, you must complete one compulsory unit, one elective unit and any two of the optional units.
Assessments
There are no exams for this qualification. The course is assessed through assignments submitted throughout the course and evidence of experience or previous qualifications if applicable.
Qualification Received:
You will receive the Institute of Supply Chain Management Level 5 Award, Certificate or Diploma in Supply Chain Management.
Your Course Fee Includes:
- Tuition
- Study Materials
- 12 Month Institute Membership
- VAT
Course Details - Unit Breakdown
Compulsory Units
Business
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This unit is about the process of strategic development in business. It covers the importance of building and maintaining collaborative business relationships and how effective and efficient human resource management contributes to the achievement of organisational goals. It also looks at the management of finance in business, how your country's current legislation impacts in business and marketing strategies in business.
Elective Units
Management
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This unit is about the principles of leadership and management. It covers how management decision making is informed by knowledge and information and the significance of managing and implementing change in organisations. It also looks at the management role in establishing risk management process.
Supply Chain
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This unit is about how a supply chain can gain competitive advantage from efficient management and control. It covers the impact that integration and harmonisation has on both physical and information flows within a supply chain and why supply chains may not always function correctly. It also looks at how supply chain planning is achieved from a strategic and operational perspective and the impact globalisation has had on the supply chain.
Purchasing Management
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This unit is about the key roles and focus of management within purchasing. It covers the impacts of legislation upon the purchasing function and the importance of building and sustaining collaborative working relationships with suppliers. It also looks at how effective negotiation skills contribute to successful purchasing management.
International Trade Management
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This unit is about core components of International Trade management in the context of an organisation's global strategy. It covers the key features of a successful global strategy, the importance of international financial strategies and the risks associated with multi currency trading.
Logistics
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This unit is about the principles behind the logistics requirements of a supply chain. It looks at scheduling logistics operations to meet customers' needs, optimise the use of logistics operations and the range of transport modes and their usage within logistics operations. It also looks at the use of technology with logistics operations and the importance of improving quality of logistics operations.
Operations Management Processes
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This unit is about the role of operations and operations management within business. It covers the design of operations processes as well as the design of the products and services that organisations produce. It also looks at the correlation between operations management and strategic planning and how operations improvement techniques could enhance competitive advantage in business.
Optional Units
Production Management
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This unit is about the components of production planning and its function within a supply chain. It covers the inter relationships between production planning, sales planning and forecasting and the terminology associated with Master Scheduling and basic scheduling concepts. It looks at how manufacturing and control systems have developed historically and a variety of measures to improve production planning performance.
Warehousing
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This unit is about the need and role of developing warehousing in logistics. It covers the resource requirements of warehousing and the basic concept of inventory and developing an inventory strategy. It looks at the importance of technology in warehouse within the supply chain and how to recognise and manage cost trends.
Customer Service
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This unit is about the importance of managing customer relationships. It covers generating a customer focussed culture and seamless service and assessing, monitoring and improving levels of customer satisfaction. It also looks at the importance of managing customer complaints effectively.
Quality Management
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This unit is about the range of quality management systems appropriate for use in business. It covers the advantages of an organisation having a quality management system in place and the tools and techniques to manage quality. It also looks at quality management tools and techniques to improve organisational performance.
Project Management
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This unit is about the principles of project management. It covers identifying and justifying management projects and conducting research and analysing data in order to fulfil the project aim. It also looks at monitoring, reviewing and evaluating a project.
Transport Planning
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This unit is about the nature and purpose of transport planning. It covers how historical developments and more recent trends in land use affect transport planning. It also looks at how the principles of sustainability are applied to transport planning and the current trends and causes for transport demand.
Inventory
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This unit is about the purpose of inventory management within a supply chain strategy. It covers the principles of the traditional fixed period and fixed quantity models of inventory control and the role of supply chain within the globalisation. It also looks at how modern inventory can improve the performance of stock systems and the importance of inventory management to minimise the stock level.
Transport Management
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This unit is about the role of road transport in supply chain. It covers the importance of setting standards and performance measurement and the operational scheduling, quality of service and security methods associated with road transport. It looks at route planning conventions of road transport and the role of management and the qualities and skills required. It also covers how effective communication skills contribute to successful decision making.
Ports and Shipping
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This unit is about the importance of shipping and international trade. It covers how business strategy in shipping contributes to growth and port operations and effective container terminal management. It also looks at the concept of agile ports and the key characteristics and port development, the operating environment and the evolution of a port.
International
Freight Management
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This unit is about the discipline of air freight and sea freight forwarding operations. It covers documentation, processes and handling procedures. It also looks at the discipline of multimodal transportation from a global perspective and the concept of globalisation.
