For entry in Academic Year 2023 to 2024
Year 1 modules
You must study the following modules :

Computational Methods for Logistics
The overreaching goal of this module is to develop your quantitative problem solving skills by improving your algorithmic thinking and computer implementation skills. The module aims to provide you with in-depth knowledge about the contemporary optimisati...

Integrated Logistics
Logistics studies the optimal planning and control of materials, information, and cash-flows through the processes of transformation, transportation, and storage within a system. Integrated logistics studies the management of the logistics across multipl...

Principles of Supply Chain Management
This module provides a broad overview of topics relevant to contemporary principles and sustainable Supply Chain Management. It acts as a foundation for your further investigation into areas pertinent to your career choice(s) as well as an integrative mod...

Simulation
This module provides a practical introduction to the theories and techniques of simulation. The approach taken is very broad and covers different forms of simulation, including discrete event simulation, system dynamics and agent-based modelling. The mod...

Strategic Purchasing and Supply Management
Strategic Purchasing and Supply Management aims to provide students with an appreciation and understanding of the roles and position of strategic purchasing and supply within the organisation, the processes that support it, and the implications of electro...

You must also choose from the following modules :

Behavioural Operations
This module aims to develop your capabilities of addressing behavioural issues in an operational context. It goes beyond the typical focus on single decisions taken by an individual to decision making—possibly involving some strategic considerations—in wh...

Credit Risk & Data Analytics
The module will start by defining the concept of data analytics and demonstrating the processes in three steps: data pre-processing, data mining and post-processing. Next, we will zoom into the data mining step and distinguish three types of data mining:...

Dissertation (Analytics)
The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a dissertation of up to 15,000 words describing your work. You will have synchronous and asynchro...

Forecasting
The module will introduce students to time series models and associated forecasting methods.

International Logistics
The international logistics module provides a sound foundation in international logistics management in terms of road, rail, air and sea freight transport. The focus is primarily from a user perspective in order to provide a logistics and supply chain man...

Introduction to Python
This module aims to teach students the fundamentals of writing structured computer programs, applicable using any high level programming language. However, students will be shown the special features of Python that makes this language especially useful fo...

Optimisation and Decision Modelling
This module will provide you with a sound foundation in the application of the many tools and techniques of management science. You are expected to learn the tools and the applications of modelling, optimization, computing and programming in solving pract...

Project Risk Management
Project risk management has evolved significantly over many years, but there are conflicting views about what constitutes best practice. This course provides an overview of best practice as outlined in the course text with a critical comparison of alterna...

Risk Taking and Decision Making
The ability to make effective decisions in the face of risk and uncertainty is essential to success in today’s fast changing world. This module seeks to equip you with the knowledge of decision-making processes and models that will help you achieve this o...

Summer Project
The summer project dissertation stage of your Master's programme involves direct work with a company where you will need to develop a solution for a real problem they currently propose, as discussed in the project brief, and the preparation of a 15,000 wo...

Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains
Based on your acquired initial knowledge of supply chains and operations, this module provides a deeper exposure to sustainable, ethical and responsible operations and global supply chains. It emphasizes the need for taking into account how supply chains ...

The Management of Corporate Security
Security management is an essential activity in most organisations, with poor security practices often playing a key role in organisational failure and crises. This has resulted in a need for individuals with specialist knowledge in organisational securit...