Course overview
Guarantee success in your industry with IoSCM. We offer 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.
As with most supply chain sectors, the roles and responsibilities of those in an Import and Export position can be varied. IoSCM’s Import and Export Academy enables those in the industry to develop their skills through bespoke distance learning courses.
You can custom build the IoSCM Level 6 Certificate in Import and Export qualification in order to meet your career ambitions, current job specification or objective of your employer.
This qualification is industry recognised across the globe. The IoSCM level 6 certificate in import and export course was designed and developed by industry experts to provide first-class study materials that meet National Occupational Standards (NOS). It also guarantees that we’re the best qualifications on the market.
Job outcomes
- Ocean Freight Modal Manager
- Area Transport Manager
- Transport Operations Manager
Recognition
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
Awards
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Duration study load
- Study at your own time
- 1 Unit Credit Value (UCV) typically equates to 10 hours of learning
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
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.
Who's it for?
The IoSCM Import and Export Academy is dedicated to helping those within the import and export industry develop and grow their knowledge and expertise.
The IoSCM level 6 qualification means whether you have previously studied a lower level qualification or have experience working as a senior manager.
Regardless of your ability, the current level of education or the way you prefer to learn, we can custom-build a qualification to suit you.
Delivery
You’ll gain access to a customised learning platform in which you can take mock tests, utilise a huge library of resources and interact with other students across the globe.
As well as unlimited first-class materials, there are self-assessments available online that show the results immediately to give you direction on what you’re doing well and what you might need to take another look at.
You can take and retake the practise self-tests as many times as you like. By doing this, we’re increasing your confidence in your ability to succeed and therefore, also ensuring you pass the first time.
Subjects
- Certificate: Complete one core unit and two additional units (either core or optional), providing you with solid knowledge.
- Operational Strategy: Operational strategy and how it is required to be designed to meet business strategy
- Managing People and Change in the Work Place: The effect of change management programmes in the workplace
- Methods of Managing Capacity: How businesses manage capacity, location and layout, quality, operational scheduling
- Operational Scheduling and Process Management: Operational control, loading sequencing, scheduling, materials requirement planning, manufacturing resource planning, just in time operations and optimised production technology
- Managing Quality: Quality conformance, quality principles and theories, Methods of minimising the cost of quality
- Key Requirements of Logistics Management: Customer requirements, lead times, distribution networks, communications, cost implications, added value activities
- Setting up a Logistic Operation: Hub and spoke operations, outsourcing, locations, transport legislation, technology, equipment
- Benefits of Different Transport Modes
- Methods of Rationalising Logistic Operations: The benefits and risks associated with rationalisation activities, distribution networks, route optimisation
- Technology in Logistics: 3PL and centralisation of activities, the Software application to support the centralisation of processes, Route optimisation software, vehicle management system, RFID and EDI applications
- Transport Planning and Economic Development: Transports linkage to the economy, Planning consideration
- Transport within a Supply Chain Infrastructure: The challenges each mode of transport presents
- Methods of Trip Distribution Modelling: Risks associated with changes to distribution networks, The merits of distribution models, The effects of employing route optimisation software models
- Effective Transport Policy
- International Movement of Freight: Legislation, customs requirements, the role of freight forwarders and the appropriate choice of mode of transport
- Process of Management Activities: Planning of organisation objectives and goals
- Impact of Leadership and Management Techniques: Styles of leadership and how they impact the organisation
- Risk Management: Risk management processes and how they can be aligned to strategic objectives
- Organisational Cultures: How an organisation may change of developing specific culture and what may be the benefits and challenges to the implementation
- Factors Impacting Time Management: Factors that influence time management, target setting, work sequencing delegation and the development of a time management strategy
- Strategic Role of Inventories: Inventory supports the following organisation objectives; quality, speed, dependability, flexibility and cost
- Inventory Cost on Business Performance: Types of inventory buffer, Costs of placing orders
- Managing Order Levels: Reorder point and re-order level, economic order quantity and economic batch quantity/lot size
- Inventory Control: Continuous and periodic review models; time interval model, make to order, assemble to order, make to stock, independent and dependant demand
- Production: Components of the production function
- Requirement of Product Design and Production Strategy: Product life cycle, product strategy, research and development, product design, design services and organising product development
- Location, Layout and Productivity of Manufacturing: Facilities location, facilities layout, work measurement and individual and organisational productivity
- Forecasting, Planning and Scheduling of Production: Forecasting demand, planning production, scheduling production, economic order quantity model planning and controlling projects
- Purchasing and Inventory Management: MRP I, MRP II, the purchasing function, expediting, a standard purchasing system, just in time management system
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.
