IoSCM Level 6 Award in Logistics and Transport

Unit Content:

• Logistics Management - Customer requirements; lead times; cost implications; hub and spoke operations; outsourcing; distribution networks; route optimisation; 3PL and centralisation of activities; RFID and EDI applications.
• Transport Management Planning - Transports linkage to the economy; risks associated with changes to distribution networks; legislation; customs requirements.

Optional units:

• Management and Leadership - Planning of organisation objectives and goals; how an organisation may change or develop specific culture, factors that influence time management.
• Inventory - Quality, speed, dependability, flexibility and cost; Costs of placing; orders; reorder point and re-order level; continuous and periodic review models.
• Operations Management - Operational strategy and how it is required to be designed to meet business strategy; location and layout; materials requirement planning; quality conformance.
• Production Management - Product life cycle; product strategy; product design; facilities layout; forecasting demand; planning production; MRP I; MRP II; the purchasing function.
• Supply Chain Management - Designing a supply chain; drivers of the performance of a supply chain; value to customers; strategic (long term) and operational (medium to short term) planning.
• Finance Management - Interprets assets and liabilities; how a business values and monitors profits vs. cash flow; long term and short term financial planning; mergers and acquisitions.
• Business - The structure of an organisation, factor or free markets, how a business deals with elasticity in demand; scoping and implementation of change.
• Human Resource Management - The role of HRM as a specialist function; human resource planning, performance management systems, turnover and retention of staff, talent management and recruitment methods.
• International Freight Management - Drivers of international freight movement; physical flows and processes required to move products; freight forwarding agencies; strategic warehouse placement.
• Ports and Shipping Management - Global trends and the trade-offs in cost/sourcing; methods utilised in an agile port to link transportation modes; limitations of land use; resilience within the national operation structure of port operations.
• Purchasing Management - Purchasing environment to determine strategy for changes; cost leadership; the tendering process; desk and field research.
• Warehouse Management – The need for warehousing; customer needs; types of warehouse layout; types of logistic operations; review of core competencies against the need for internal/external third party logistics.
• Quality Management - Durability recovery and contrast; resource management; TQM techniques; developing organisational capability;