Course summary

This innovative course allows you to top up your existing qualifications to an honour’s degree in two years full-time or three years sandwich, whilst benefiting from all that Northumbria University and the city of Newcastle has to offer. This new course has been designed to give you the ideal balance between a broad understanding of how businesses operate globally in an increasingly competitive environment, balanced with specialist knowledge of logistics and supply chain management (LSCM) in an industry focused curriculum. This course supports your academic skills development and employability opportunities while providing knowledge of contemporary business management models and frameworks while developing your expertise about the theory and practice of logistics and supply chain management. The course includes specialist modules in applied logistics and supply chain management, supply chain innovation, and global supply network management. This degree is designed to be a steppingstone to jobs and promotion in the vibrant sector of LSCM, which is having a profound impact on organisational efficiencies. The UK’s top 10 food retailers have voted LCSM as their most vital management area recognising the importance of the flow of information between suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers and consumers. There are exciting and rewarding jobs in purchasing, logistics, planning, international trade, and imports/exports. There’s plenty of support for you to develop the academic study skills that are required. Whatever your background, we’ll help you take the more critical, deeper, and research-informed approach that’s needed for an honour’s degree at a UK university. The relevance, rigour and internationalisation of this course are set to meet some of the highest and most demanding levels of accreditation. This course is covered by the prestigious AACSB accreditation for Newcastle Business School.