Course summary
This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. Overview Supply chain management contributes to every aspect of business, not to mention everyday life. Recent events like Covid and Brexit have shown how important supply chains are. Ensuring the right products are in the right place at the right time — and at the right cost — is vital to life as we know it. So is ensuring those supply chains are sustainable safe for the environment. On this degree you'll investigate risk and strategic management, logistics management, and learn how to procure goods and manage supply lines. You'll use professional industry software, systems and tools to help you explore the ethics and sustainability of global supply chains. With a focus on global procurement and the sourcing and purchasing of goods, you’ll graduate with more than just an understanding of logistics and the movement of goods. You’ll build your specialist knowledge and understanding of business in general so that you graduate with a set of management and specific skills that are in demand in the workplace. You can boost your employability and apply you degree knowledge with a paid industry placement year before or after your third year. As Portsmouth is a vital supply chain hub there are great local opportunities to do a placement year with companies like IBM and Boeing, as well as other roles across the UK. Course highlights
- Stand out in the employment market with your knowledge of procurement and a valued skill set
- Choose from specialist module options including business analytics and data modelling — skills that are in-demand in the industry
- Gain core management skills such as risk management and leadership alongside your specialist supply chain skills
- Benefit from the support of our dedicated Placement Team to help you secure a paid placement year
- Improve your global employability by spending a year abroad at a partner university in Europe, Asia, Australia or North America
- Learn from academics who have supply chain industry experience and research expertise in data driven supply chains
- supply chain management
- purchasing and procurement
- procurement management
- logistics analysis
- distribution management
- supply coordination
- Marks and Spencer
- Apple
- Amazon
- DHL
- UPS
- Automotive (RR)
- Procter and Gamble (P&G)
Modules
Year 1 Core modules in this year include:
- Business Accounting
- Business Operations and Systems Management
- Economics For Business
- Managing People in Organisations
- Marketing Principles and Practice
- Introduction to Business Analytics
- Discovering the Supply Chain Professional
- Business Logistics Management
- Leadership, Ethics, Governance and Sustainability
- Risk Management and Supply Chain Vulnerability
- Legal Issues in Procurement and Supply
- Procurement and Supply
- Business Analytics in Practice
- Electronic and Mobile Commerce
- Financial Decision Making and Control
- International Business
- Business Improvement & Creativity
- Operations Strategy and the Supply Chain
- Dissertation - Operations and Systems Management
- Business Consultancy Project
- Critical Leadership: Theory and Practice
- Cross Cultural Awareness For Business
- Strategic and International Management
- Critical Leadership: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
- Project Management For Enterprise
- Responsible and Sustainable Business
- Strategic Management
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed through: essays presentations projects exams reflective work computer-based assignments You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark. You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future. The way you’re assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows: Year 1 students: 58% by written exams and 42% by coursework Year 2 students: 27% by written exams, 17% by practical exams and 56% by coursework Year 3 students: 48% by written exams, 5% by practical exams and 47% by coursework
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
How to apply
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 112 - 120 points
A level - BBB - BBC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDM - DMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher - Not accepted
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 29 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4 - H3, H3, H3, H3, H3
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
T Level - M
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
---|---|---|
IELTS (Academic) | 6 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. |
PTE Academic | 54 | An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill. |
TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components |
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
EU | £9250 | Year 1 |
England | £9250 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
International | £17200 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP