Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain Management (GC-SCM) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

1. Learning Goal

Graduates of this degree will be knowledgeable of aspects of the supply of goods and services, including procurement, transformation operations and transport/ distribution including the management of information in these areas.

Learning objectives to achieve these goals

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Understand and apply the supply chain management (SCM) body of knowledge that includes the understanding of recent developments in a discipline and/or area of professional practice;
• Apply cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge in SCM and to reflect critically on theory and professional practice or scholarship.

2. Learning Goal

Graduates of this degree will be professional in their approach to Supply Chain Management.

Learning objectives to achieve these goals

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Apply technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse, theorise about developments that contribute to high levels of supply chain performance outcomes;
• Demonstrate and use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate complex supply chains at an abstract and at a practical level;
• Effectively investigate SCM problems and opportunities, using communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret theoretical propositions, methodologies, conclusions and professional decisions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

3. Learning Goal

Graduates of this degree will be analytical in all aspects of Supply Chain Management.

Learning objectives to achieve these goals

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Apply a body of knowledge that includes the understanding of developments in analysing supply chain designs;
• Apply cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of SCM concepts and when to choose and use various analytical approaches to underpin judgement;
• Apply technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement and analyse developments in SCM and the analysis of SCM problems and opportunities.

Graduate attributes

Academically excellent

Our graduates will be expected to be:

• Knowledgeable of aspects of the supply of goods and services, including procurement, transformation operations and transport/ distribution including the management of information in these areas; and
• Analytical in all aspects of Supply Chain Management.

Knowledgeable across disciplines

Our graduates will be expected to be:

• Intellectually curious, creative and independent in thought.

Leaders in communities

Our graduates will be expected to be:

• Professional in their approach to Supply Chain Management;
• Effective team members and collaborators;
• Effective communicators of key ideas and theories within the discipline areas; and
• Ethical in their behaviour in leadership and organisation of Supply Chain Management.