Logistics and Supply Chain Management - MSc

The module aims to provide you with a foundation for academic research skills employed in all modules, but particularly the master’s dissertation. This will enhance your learning experience by providing a research output which is both industrially relevant, and contributes academic value to the research base of your chosen industry.

This module will focus on resource management and its effective deployment and allocation to achieve sustainable competitive advantage for organisations.

Engineering Project solutions and financial decisions are intimately tied together, along with people management. The best engineers combine the technical and financial cases in determining new solutions to opportunities, challenges and problems.

This module provides a comprehensive examination of the evolving role of purchasing and procurement within the supply function of engineering organisations.

It focuses on managing external inputs of goods and services to enhance organisational or project efficiency, by exploring contract law, including relevant legal and regulatory understanding of the contractual obligations that govern interactions between organisations in project management.

This module will provide you with the opportunity to undertake a critical evaluation of supply chain management and its links to the marketplace, the distribution networks, the manufacturing process and the procurement activity required; ensuring that customers are served at high levels by lowering operational costs through effective logistics and supply chain operations. Within the module you will be exposed to optimisation of the manufacturing environment.

Organisations are embracing computing technology in daily operations to enable integration, collaboration, interaction, and the processing needs of the entire organisation. One of these computing technologies that has become an essential part of an organisation's IT portfolio is Enterprise Systems (ES), which incorporates ERP, CRM, SCM, and so forth. ES are a comprehensive, configurable, and integrated suite of systems and information resources, which support organisational-wide operational and management processes. 

The module will consider in depth the effect of increasing competitive demand on all parts of the supply chain; how companies can gain competitive advantage by aligning both their internal and external supply chains to enhance customer satisfaction, product profitability, customer-supplier partnership and manufacturing and distribution efficiencies.

The purpose of the module is to enable you to undertake a sustained, in-depth and research-informed Level 7 project exploring an area that is of personal interest to you. In agreement with your supervisor, you will decide upon your topic which will take the form of a practical outcome (artefact) with accompanying contextual material. The main consideration when choosing your topic is that it must be aligned to the programme you are studying and informed by the research strategy of your school, and you should consider the relevance of this topic to your future academic or professional development.