MSc (Operations and Supply Chain Management)

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. 

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.

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.

Features and benefits

• Double accredited course – this course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
• Internationally recognised – our Business School is named in the QS World University Rankings 2024 for our masters in Supply Chain Management. We achieved this position through demonstrating a level of excellence in employability, thought leadership and diversity.
• Triple accredited school – our Business School holds the globally recognised trio of accreditations from EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA, placing us among the best business schools in the world. 
• Rise programme – all students are eligible to take part in curricular activities with Rise. These might include volunteering, project work and certifications. Find out more
• Valuable insights – visit sites and hear expert academics and guest lectures from industry professionals active in the field today, giving students insights into the current issues facing the industry.
• Professional development – hear from industry experts and work with our Employability Team to develop your professional profile at our end-of-year MSc Operation Connect event.

Course information

• From the phones in our pocket to the food on our table, our everyday lives rely on the way manufacturers, logistics companies and retailers maintain the flow of goods and provision of services across the country and around the world.
• Operations and supply chain management can make or break a business, finding the efficiency to improve margins and the opportunities to create profits. Yet its impact also reaches beyond the boundaries of business. It’s a discipline that shapes the way we consume products and services; touching livelihoods, driving national economies and impacting our social wellbeing. Above all, it’s an area full of challenge and opportunity as business and government face the climate crisis.
• For ambitious students, it’s a specialist field that’s constantly evolving, offering fresh challenges and new possibilities. Our Business School provides an exceptional place to make your start.
• The teaching team are experienced tutors working at the forefront of their respective areas. With expertise in everything from industry 4.0, technology and innovation, to operational agility, logistics and supply chain management, it’s a team that brings specialised knowledge on every aspect of the subject.
• We’ve also built an impressive network of connections throughout the industry, not only working closely with institutes, associations and employers, but also maintaining relationships with external professionals. As such, we give our students access to the latest in cutting-edge research through guest lectures from industry practitioners, real-world case studies and research projects with our business partners.
• So, by the time you leave us, you should be equipped with the key concepts, principles and practices of operations, logistics and supply chain management. In short, you should graduate with the industry-relevant skills and understanding which are in high demand in today’s global trade environment.

Rise with Manchester Met

• Rise is a programme available to all students at Manchester Met giving you the opportunity to earn practice credits on your degree through employment-enhancing activities. During your studies you can collect points for the activities you engage in and if you engage in enough activity you could receive recognition on your degree transcript.

Year 1

• You’ll study several core units, covering topics such as operations management, enterprise systems and business relationship management and strategic procurement. 
• In addition to your core units, you’ll also study digital leadership transformation as an option unit. Whilst studying the unit is compulsory, the credit-weighting of the unit can be substituted for credits gained on the Rise programme in your final transcript.

Core modules

• Industry 4.0
• Supply Chain Practices and Strategy
• Operations Management
• Portfolio and Project Management in Organisations
• Business Relationship Management and Strategic Procurement
• Enterprise Systems
• Dissertation/Project

Option modules

• Digital Leadership Transformation

Career prospects

• 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 pursue a range of roles, from supply chain and operations, to procurement and inventory management, particularly through graduate schemes with global businesses like Procter & 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.