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 a Ports and Shipping position can be varied. IoSCM’s Ports and Shipping Academy enables those in the industry to develop their skills through bespoke distance learning courses.
You can custom build the IoSCM Level 6 Extended Diploma in Ports and Shipping 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 extended diploma in ports and shipping 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.
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?
Designed for students who would like to develop key skills and knowledge required to move into a supervisory management or team leader role and improve operational efficiency.
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
Our qualifications are available in three different sizes, depending on how many units you choose and therefore, how long it will spend studying.
- Extended Diploma: To gain the extended diploma you must complete one core unit and an additional five additional units (either core or optional).
- Shipping and Globalisation: Global trends and the trade-offs in cost/sourcing, Global ports and requirements of future port operations
- Value of Operating and Agile Ports: Components of an agile port, advantage and disadvantages, Methods utilised in an agile port to link transportation modes
- Resource Requirements: Advantages of specialised equipment, limitations on the equipment and resources available in port operation, Limitations of land use, location, resilience within the national operation structure of port operations
- Containerised Shipping Operation: Intermodal and transmodal networks, Sequencing of movement of containers
- Purchasing Environment: Environment scanning, Purchasing environment to determine a strategy for changes
- Purchasing Strategy: Cost leadership, differentiation or focus, Alternative strategic direction
- IT in the Purchasing Process: Management information systems
- Supplier Assessment and Performance Rating: The tendering process
- Support Tools for the Purchasing Process: Desk and field research
- 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
- 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
- Effective Supply Chains: The major requirements of a supply chain, Designing a supply chain
- Meeting Strategic Objectives of an Organisation: The drivers of the performance of a supply chain
- Value of 3PL and 4PL: Value to customers
- Cause of Supply Chain Failures: Strategic (long term) and operational (medium to short term) planning
- Developments in Information Technology: Supply chain evaluation tools
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.
