OTHM Level 7 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

The unit focusses on the strategic, value adding role of logistics in supply networks. It aims to impart learners with a thorough understanding of key theoretical and operational aspects of managing logistics, specifically transportation,storage/warehousing and packaging. The relatedconsiderations for business competitiveness and operational efficiency is emphasised as is the interdependency between operational, technological, and regulatory aspects.

Learning Outcome:

The learner will:

1. Understand key concepts and issues in logistics

2. Understand the different modes of transport and their underlying operational and economic characteristics.

3. Understand the regulatory aspects and procedures and practices with international processes.

4. Understand strategic and operational aspects of warehouse management.

The unit aims to provide learners with in-depth knowledge about planning processes across all key aspects of supply chain management. The relevance of each of the planning processes, the associated information requirements and modelling and analytic techniques are covered

Learning Outcome:

1. Understand supply chain planning models and approaches used in contemporary business operations.

2. Understand the integration of supply chain planning, scheduling, and control approaches in business operations.

3. Understand the application of data analytics in supply chain management.

The aim of this unit is to enable learners to apply financial principles relevant to management in an organisational context, including analytical techniques and theories/models of management accounting, evaluation of budgetary processes, recommending funding sources and appraising investment options.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Be able to apply the tools and techniques of cost accounting.

2. Be able to critically analyse the financial performance of businesses

3. Be able to evaluate the budgetary processes of organisations.

4. Be able to recommend effective long term and short-term sources of funding.

5. Be able to critically appraise investment options

The aim of this unit is to develop learners’ understanding of supply chain and operations management, including its scope, impact and importance as well as the strategic decisions that need to be made in today’s world of global supply and global markets, taking into account the major competitive drivers. The unit discusses supply chain and operations management practices and approaches in a range of contexts

Learning Outcome:

1. Understand key operations and supply chain management concepts, theories and strategies.

2. Understand performance measurement approaches and techniques.

The aim of this unit is to develop learners’ understanding, knowledge and skills of sustainable operations management, including key elements of sustainability and their importance to businesses, the business drivers and barriers affecting the move towards sustainability, the different practices across the supply chain that can be worked upon to improve sustainability as well as the performance measures and the business impact of sustainability. A variety of different sectors are explored.

Learning Outcome:

1. Understand the concept and theories of sustainable supply chains.

2. Understand how to make the businesses more sustainable.

The aim of this unit is to develop learners’ understanding of research principles including the formulation of research proposals, literature reviews, referencing, data collection using interviews and surveys, questionnaire design, statistical analysing using SPSS, qualitative data, and methods for drawing conclusions from the analysed data.

Learning Outcome:

1. Be able to identify research problems and formulate research objectives.

2. Understand how to review the literature on a research topic.

3. Be able to design appropriate business research methodologies

4. Be able to develop a research proposal.