MSC OPERATIONS AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

Every product or service that comes to the market relies on the expert combination of human power, material resources, and financial investment. As an MSc Operations and Logistics Management student, you will explore how to bring these elements together successfully. You’ll learn how to anticipate and respond to problems, and how to create order in the most complex of situations.

The course is carefully designed to help you become an expert in the primary and supporting activities in a value chain and in operations and logistics management practices. You will study key areas such as inventories, transportation, warehousing, procurement, supply chain, and logistics operations, sustainable supply chains and logistics, innovations, and technology management, low carbon supply chain and logistics, and materials management. You’ll also explore the application of technologies to supply chain management.

Our teaching is research-led, ensuring you benefit from the very latest thinking in this rapidly-changing field. Your curriculum will be underpinned by the research of UEA’s respected Innovation, Technology and Operations Management group (ITOM). The ITOM group conducts research and teaching into various aspects of innovation management, technology management, and operations management. Rather than relying solely on textbooks, you’ll be taught the latest operations and logistics innovations reported in academic and practitioner journals.

We have strong links to industry and you will also learn from practicing experts and guest speakers. This ensures you gain insight into the most pressing challenges facing organizations today.

You will also learn by analyzing case studies. In this way, you’ll gain valuable insights into real workplace problems and their possible solutions. This study of real-life and created cases means you can fast track to having the kind of industry expertise that might otherwise take years to amass.