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IoSCM Level 3 Award in Supply Chain and Operations

Study Method
Online
Institution
Institute of Supply Chain Management
Recognition
SFEDI Awards
Start Date
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Course Fees
£401
Institute of Supply Chain Management Courses

Course overview

The Level 3 IoSCM Award in Supply Chain Management qualification is designed for those who aspire to be in a supervisory management role within the supply chain field. This distance learning course offers supply chain training that on completion, certified students to have management skills as well as strong knowledge in specific areas of the supply chain to support your career development.

During this course, you’ll study the essential elements of a supply chain organisation. Your units will explore the components that create a successful supply chain and how to measure these using methods such as Utilisation and Balanced Score Cards.

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Job outcomes

  • Process Engineer
  • Inventory and Logistics Controller
  • Warehouse Shift Manager
  • Lean Co-ordinator
  • Transport Supervisor
  • Import and Export Team Co-ordinator
  • Freight Forwarder
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Recognition

SFEDI Awards
Awarded by SFEDI Awards
Awarded by SFEDI Awards

Study method

  • Online
  • Blended
  • In-class

Awards

Best Specialist Provider Award
Best Specialist Provider Award
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Duration study load

  • Study at your own time
  • 1 Unit Credit Value (UCV) typically equates to 10 hours of learning

Entry requirements

At least two years is recommended in the Supply Chain industry for this operations course but you don’t need any prior qualifications.

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Course features

  • Gain access to a customised learning platform
  • Can take mock tests, utilise a huge library of resources and interact with other students across the globe
  • Unlimited first-class materials
  • Self-assessments available online that shows the results immediately
  • Able to take and retake the practise self-tests as many times as you like
  • Assigned a Student Support Liaison, who will handle all enquiries and act as your personal mentor upon enrolment

Who's it for?

The IoSCM Level 3 Supply Chain qualification is designed for those who already have experience in the supply chain industry.

ELCAS Funding

If you’ve had a career in the Armed Forces, you will already have a wealth of valuable skills that employers are looking for in their candidates. However, to progress your career outside of the military, you will need to certify these skills with industry-recognised qualifications, and Enhanced Learning Credits can help you to do this.

To be eligible to receive ELC payments, you must have accrued at least six years of military service. You can earn up to three credits, the value of which will depend on the length of your service. Your credits will cover 80% of your course fees, with the remaining 20% being funded by yourself.

Institute of Supply Chain Management is an approved Enhanced Learning Credits (ELC) provider and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant.

Our ELC provider number is 9651.

Subjects

Consists of one core unit and is the shortest available qualification.

Core Units
Warehousing Operations – 10 Unit Credit Value
  • Warehouse Departments: Receipts, Replenishment or put away, Stores, Picking, Packing, Housekeeping, Dispatch
  • Bridge Between Supply and Demand: Staging Areas, Cross-Docking, Keeping Goods Safe and Secure, Gathering, Temporary Storage
  • Warehouse Management Systems (WMS): (ERP) Systems, Radio Frequency Identification, Human Memory Systems
  • Types of Warehouses: Ambient Warehouses, Climate-Controlled Warehouse, Automated Warehouse, Private Warehouse, Public Warehouse, Distribution Centre, Bonded Warehouse
  • Warehouse Location Factors: Proximity to Customers and Suppliers, Building, Floors, Structure, Doors, Receipt and Dispatch Docks, Offices, Lighting, Heating, Extensions, Materials Handling, Mezzanine Floors
  • Health and Safety: Health and Safety Policy, Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH), The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981, Reporting of Injuries, Manual Handling, Fire Risk, Loading and Unloading Vehicles, Pedestrian Safety, Site Visitors, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Shift Work, Lighting, Workplace Temperature
  • Industrial Equipment: Industrial trucks, Charging Batteries, Platforms on lift trucks, Conveyors, Mechanical Handling of Waste Materials, Racking, Using Flat Pallets, Loading Pallets
  • Housekeeping: Safety, Loss Control Rules, Orderliness Principle Maintaining Warehouse Equipment: Equipment Maintenance, Examination of Industrial Trucks, Scheduled Maintenance, Drivers Maintenance Logs
  • Receiving Goods: Goods Receipt Process, Vehicle Arrival, Assigning the Carrier to a Bay, Loading Bays, Relative Quantities of Goods
  • Contingency Plan: Stock and Risk Management, Buffer Stock
Transport Planning Operations – 10 Unit Credit Value
  • Role of Transport: Categories of Goods, Perishable Goods, Dangerous/Hazardous Goods, Bulk Liquids/Powders, Livestock
  • Transport: Transport Modes, Infrastructure, Vehicles, Operations, Modal Transport, Intermodal Transport, Multimodal Transport
  • Principles of Transport Planning: Linear, Hub, Spoke, Customs, Payment of Charges, Packing and Warehousing, Insurance, Security
  • Legislation & Regulations: UK Central Government Structure, UK Civil Aviation Authority, Overseas Legislation, International Commercial Terms
  • Health & Safety Measures: Road Transport, HGV Driver Hours, Air Transport, Transport of Dangerous Goods, UK Health & Safety Legislation
  • Transport Equipment: Conveyors, Cranes, Industrial Trucks, Importance of Standardised Transport Equipment, Multimodal/TEU/ISO Container
  • Transport Planning: Optimum use of Fleet, Driver Productivity, Route Planning Optimisation, Benefits of Transport Planning
  • External Influences: SLEPT Analysis
  • Demand Types: Direct, Indirect, Consumer Demand, Seasonal Demand, Fashion Demand, Supplier Demand, Product Demand
  • Planning With Regard to Modal Choice: Timing, Damage Avoidance, Security, Distance, Degree of Control
Supply Chain Operation – 10 Unit Credit Value
  • The Supply Chain: Upstream and Downstream, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Transportation, Demand planning, Supply planning, Suppliers, Retailers, External Supply Chains, Internal Supply Chains
  • Relationships: Vertical Relationships, Horizontal Relationships, Transactional Relationships, Collaborative Relationships, Strategic Relationships, Customer Satisfaction
  • Supply Chain Components: Customer, Planning, Purchasing, The Supplier, Inventory, The Manufacturer/Production
  • Logistics: Forward and Reverse
  • Integrated Systems: Direct Product Profitability (DDP), Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP), Just in Time (JIT), Material Requirements Planning, The Master Production Schedule, The Bill of Materials, The Inventory File
  • Risks to a Supply Chain: External Drivers, PESTEL, Demand Risk, Supply Risk, Business Risks, Physical Plant Risks, Mitigation and Contingency, Cultural Risks, Environmental Risk, Assigning values
  • Supply Chain Performance Measurement: Productivity, Utilisation, Balanced Scorecard (BSC)
  • Lean: Value and Waste as a Concept, The Creation of Value, The Supply Chain Value Stream, The Lean Supply Chain, Hoshin Planning, Takt Time, Kaizen, Jidoka, Just in Time (JIT), Heijunka Box, Poka Yoke, Muda, 5S, Total Productive Management (TPM)
  • Benchmarking: Functional Benchmarking, Best-in-class Benchmarking, Operational Benchmarking, Process Benchmarking, Financial Benchmarking, Performance Benchmarking
  • Supply Chain Integration: Internal integration, Systems Integration, Relationship Integration, Upstream and Downstream Linkages
Purchasing Processes – 10 Unit Credit Value
  • Organisations Involved in the Purchasing Role: Manufacture, Distribution, Transport, Warehousing, Inventory Control, Materials Handling, Procurement
  • Relationships: Internal, External, Remote, Cooperative, Partnership
  • Markets: Demand, Competition, Monopoly, Natural Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopsony, Trade Protectionism, Porter’s Five Forces
  • External Factors: PESTLE Analysis, Local, National, Global, Public Sector, Private Sector, Third Sector, Financial, Reputation, Environmental, Health, Safety, Welfare, Lost Opportunities
  • Purchasing: Five Rights, Ethics, End to end Cycle, Supplier Relationships: Adversarial, Arm’s Length, Transactional, Closer Tactical, Single Sourced, Outsourcing, Strategic Alliance, Partnership, Co-destiny
  • Sourcing Suppliers: Planning, Sourcing, Tendering, Contract Award, Contract Management, Receipts & Invoicing, Request for Quote (RFQ)
  • Suppliers Requirements: Capacity, Facilities, Finance
  • Performance: Supplier Scorecards, Weighted Average Supplier Scorecards, Supplier Performance Information, Correcting Poor Performance
  • Law: Common law, Equity, Statute law, European Union laws, Contracts, Sale of Goods Act 1979, International Laws and Global Purchasing, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977, Export Administration Act 1979, Customs Laws, Foreign Laws, International Laws, INCOTERMS, Breach of Contract
Ports and Shipping – 10 Unit Credit Value
  • Types of Ports: A Fishing Port, An Inland Port, A Dry Port, Cruise Home Ports, Cargo Ports
  • Port Functions: Transport (Circulation) Function of Ports, Commercial Function of Ports, Industrial Function of Ports, Distributional Function of Ports
  • Seaport Connection and Transhipment: Maritime Access, Maritime Interface, Infrastructures and Equipment, Land Access, Port Service (Full-Service), Tool Port (Service), Land Lord
  • Maritime Network Considerations: Frequency of Service, Fleet and Vessel Size, Number of Port Calls, Shipping Conferences, Shipping Alliances, Containerisation
  • Port Considerations: Location, Depth, Land Availability, Labour Costs, Hinterland Access, Ownership
  • External Factors: Demand Forecasts, Location, Competition, Coastal Shipping, Resilience
  • Infrastructural Requirements: Warehousing, Value Added Logistics (VAL), Logistics Centres, Berths, Container Terminals
  • Challenges: Conservancy, Dredging, Navigation Aids, Congestion, Customs, Immigration, Port Safety, Marine Safety
Manufacturing and Production – 10 Unit Credit Value
  • Organising Production: Batch Production, Flexible Manufacturing, Continuous Manufacturing, Intermittent Manufacturing, Custom Manufacturing, Production in Relation to the Cost
  • Level of Demand: Demand Management, Data Capture, Dealing With day-to-day Customer Orders, Managing the Demand, Order Point System, Periodic Review Systems
  • Competitors: Competitive Advantage
  • Sales Forecasting: Time Series Analysis, Exponential Smoothing, Linear Trend Line, Executive Judgement, Composite of Salesforce Opinion, Expert Opinion, Fixed Order Quantity Systems
  • Production Planning: Materials Requirement Planning, Just In Time (JIT), Preventive maintenance, Flexible Workforce
  • Planning Using Buffer Stocks: Inventory as ‘Waste’, Advanced Planning and Scheduling APS, Rough Cut Capacity Planning RCCP, Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP), Shop Floor Scheduling, Kanban
  • Productivity: Measures of Output, Financial Value, Labour, Cost of Labour, Capital, Intermediate Input, Productivity Indicators, Labour Productivity, Capital Productivity, Automated Production Techniques
  • Quantity of Inputs: Manufacturing Resource Planning, Monitor Waste and Rejects: Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Total Quality Management (TQM), Quality Benchmarking, BS5750/ISO 9000, Customer Satisfaction
  • Materials Development: Product Lifecycle Management
  • Analysis Tools: PESTLE Analysis, SWOT Analysis
  • Lean: Total Productive Maintenance, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Make to Order, Streamlined Flow, Smaller lot Sizes, Doing it Right the First Time, Cellular or Group Manufacturing
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Payment options

  • ELCAS funding is available for this course
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About Institute of Supply Chain Management

Bringing together a dynamic mix of world-class study materials, expert knowledge and a sound understanding of today’s industry demands, IoSCM is actively creating the most impressive talent throughout the UK, Europe, Middle-East and Asia by training them to our exceptional standards.

As the first institute to represent the wider supply chain, we’re trusted by some of the world’s largest corporations to train and educate their workforce. IoSCM understands the industry and the need for highly-skilled, qualified professionals which is why we developed sector specific qualifications that will help upskill employees, evolve businesses and enhance careers.

Our success is a result of our dedication to education and training. We believe in giving every student much more than just a qualification, we provide the opportunity to grow, learn and progress as a professional with our unrivalled support network.

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Job outcomes

  • Process Engineer
  • Inventory and Logistics Controller
  • Warehouse Shift Manager
  • Lean Co-ordinator
  • Transport Supervisor
  • Import and Export Team Co-ordinator
  • Freight Forwarder
Want to see more job outcomes and how your future could change?
Get the course guide

Recognition

SFEDI Awards
Awarded by SFEDI Awards

Study method

  • Online
  • Blended
  • In-class

Awards

Best Specialist Provider Award
Best Specialist Provider Award
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