The Master of Science in Supply Chain Management is aimed at students with a Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Economics or a technical discipline. It is especially targeted to professionals seeking to optimize their career prospects with a two-year Master’s degree programme that can be completed on a part-time basis while they continue to work.
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A Key Factor for Success: Logistics
The distance learning M.Sc. in Supply Chain Management provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be able to analyse existing business and IT processes as well as to plan, manage, and monitor new ones. Along with a wide range of personal skills, students will also gain professional expertise that equips them to take a process-oriented approach to global value chains. The programme has been specifically designed for students who want to continue to work while pursuing their studies.
Courses in the distance learning Master’s degree programme in Supply Chain Management focus on management, along with logistical processes and information systems for logistics in industry, retail, and the logistics services branch.
Within enterprises, professional supply chain management can reduce costs, optimize results and efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction. As a result, supply chain managers are in great demand in today’s economy. At SRH University of Applied Sciences our students gain interdisciplinary expertise in the fields of strategic logistics management, supply chain operation, international management, process design and management, and big data, and they receive training to help them hone their personal skills. The primary enterprise resource planning system (ERP) we work with is SAP.
The Distance Learning M.Sc. in Supply Chain Management – Courses by Semester
1. semester | Credit Points |
International Management | 6 |
Strategic Logistics Management | 6 |
Process Design and Management | 6 |
Information Systems in Logistics | 6 |
Communication & Knowledge Management | 6 |
2. semester | Credit Points |
Supply Chain Operation | 6 |
Business Intelligence | 6 |
Operations Research | 6 |
Supply Chain Management Systems | 6 |
Leadership | 6 |
3. semester | Credit Points |
International Commercial Law | 6 |
E-Business | 6 |
Enhanced IT-Applications | 6 |
SCM-Processes | 6 |
Intercultural Competences | 6 |
4. semester | Credit Points |
Masterthesis incl. Colloquium | 30 |
Credit Points needed each semester | 30 |
Total number of credit points needed
| 120 |
Objective
Our distance learning Master’s degree programme in Supply Chain Management is founded on a holistic view of logistics management and expertise, with a commitment to a practical, business-oriented approach. It is particularly well-suited for professionals who have technical and managerial responsibilities and are currently employed in the areas of purchasing, logistics, supply chain management, or production planning. The programme is specifically designed to make it possible for students to earn a degree while continuing their employment. Graduates of our distance learning course possess practical, applied, scientifically-based qualifications that prepare them for taking on technical and managerial responsibilities in professional careers in the areas of international manufacturing, retail, or the logistics services branch.
The programme provides applied, practical professional training at the Master’s degree level, building upon students’ existing qualifications. The pertinent and timely course content and a variety of specializations equip students with excellent professional qualifications and help them to develop on both a professional and personal level. By earning an internationally recognised degree in Supply Chain Management while continuing to work full- or part-time, students are able to further their careers.
During the distance learning M.Sc. in Supply Chain Management, students will receive evidence-based instruction on the design and management of local and global supply and value chains, including all factors, company-internal as well as external, that exert an influence on logistics.
A further objective of this distance learning Master’s degree programme in Supply Chain Management is to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to work independently and with a practice-oriented approach in team and personnel management, operative and strategic supply management, or in participative or management functions in information system implementation projects.