MBA Specialization in Supply Chain Management (SCM) & Purchasing
Supply chain management talent is in high demand. Candidates with an MBA degree in Supply Chain Management and Purchasing are sure to enjoy excellent career growth in this highly competitive world.
Organisations today recognise that effectively managed supply chains are critical to growth and profitability, especially in a world in which supply chains have become increasingly global, time-sensitive, and full of uncertainty and risk.
Organizations across industry fields recognize that skilled supply chain professionals are fundamental to business success. This specialization is designed to develop creative and competent supply chain managers. The innovative program integrates international business concepts throughout the curriculum, emphasizes applied problem-solving methods and provides an interdisciplinary approach to the supply chain field
Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers (Harland, 1996). Supply Chain Management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption (supply chain.
Professionals around the world consider an MBA program to be an excellent stepping stone as they move onwards within their careers. This MBA in Supply Chain Management SCM and Purchasing is the ultimate preparation for the challenges of senior management.
What can students expect from the WUACADEMIA MBA?
Expect to learn how to be a successful leader, and you will. Building on your educational and professional background, the MBA in Supply Chain Management SCM and Purchasing will allow you to perfect your leadership skills, while broadening your understanding of the business world.
The Wuacademia MBA in Supply Chain Management SCM and Purchasing develops the managerial capabilities of exceptional individuals without interrupting their careers
The program is structured to provide an ideal balance between academic and practical experience.
The skills you gain at WUACADEMIA will enable you to easily and rapidly adapt to the increasingly unpredictable world of international business.
The international diversity of our student body (students from over 70 countries) makes WUACADEMIA unique. Over 85 per cent of our students are from outside the Netherlands.
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Objectives of Philosophical MBA
The objective of the Philosophical MBA : To enhance the managerial capital of young professionals and senior managers:
- By providing them the basic knowledge of the main managerial disciplines, with both a philosophical, scientific, environmental and cultural approach to management :
- Economics, Finance, Accounting and Valuation
- Management, Strategy and Marketing
- The Arts and Creativity & Innovation management
- Organizations, Institutions, and Human Resources
- Philosophy, Political Science and Environmental management.
- By providing a truly global education through the diversity of participants, faculty, and courses contents.
- By putting the firm in a coherent perspective with regard to the economic, social, political, ecological, philosophical and legal environment.
Goals of the Wuacademia MBA Program:
The Wuacademia Philosophical MBA is an academically rigorous, 12 (or 24) month program with a general management orientation and Political Philosophy. It seeks to develop sound business judgement, the ability to work effectively in a variety of cultural contexts, and the knowledge, skills and attitudes for on-going professional success in the field of international business.
Mission: Our mission is to transform business through management education and leadership development, creating a better world by creating better leaders.
What can students expect from the Philosophical MBA?
Expect to learn how to be a successful leader, and you will. Building on your educational and professional background, the Philosophical MBA will allow you to perfect your leadership skills, while broadening your understanding of the business world.
The Philosophical MBA develops the managerial capabilities of exceptional individuals without interrupting their careers.
The program is structured to provide an ideal balance between academic and practical experience.
The skills you gain at WUACADEMIA will enable you to easily and rapidly adapt to the increasingly unpredictable world of international business.
The international diversity of our student body (students from over 70 countries) makes WUACADEMIA unique. Over 85 per cent of our students are from outside the Netherlands.
Rafael's School of Athens, depicting Plato's Academy (This fresco is in the " Chamber of the Signature " to the Palace of Vatican)
You pay for 1 MBA program and you will get 2 diploma (an MBA Diploma and an Philosophical MBA Diploma).
Curriculum
- How Businesses Work (Value-Creation, Marketing, Sales, Value-Delivery, Finance)
- How People Work (The Human Mind, Working with Yourself, Working with Others)
- How Systems Work (Understanding Systems, Analyzing Systems, Improving Systems)
- Essentials of Purchasing
- Mastering Purchasing
- Essentials of Supply Chain Management SCM
- Mastering Supply Chain Management SCM
- Feedback Control System
- Logistics in the Supply Chain
- Integrated Product and Process Design
- Info. Technology for Supply Chain Management
- Operations Planning and Scheduling in Supply Chain
- Purchasing, Outsourcing, and Quality
- General Control Theory
- Internet Technologies and e-Commerce in supply chain operations
- Radio-Frequency Identification RFID (RFID tags)
- Electronic marketplaces and
- e-Procurement standards in purchasing
- The major building blocks, major functions, major business processes, performance metrics, and major decisions (strategic, tactical, and operational) in supply chain networks.
- Developments in Supply Chain Management
- Supply chain business process integration
- Theories of supply chain management
- Tax efficient supply chain management
- Supply chain sustainability
- Components of supply chain management integration
- Supply chain management problems
- Global supply chain management
- Economic Environment of Business
- Marketing
- Strategic Management
- Management
- Customer Relationship Management CRM
- Finance
- Financial Management
- Business and Society Management
- Advanced Strategy
- Supply Chain Management
- Leadership
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Sourcing
- Business Ethics
- Advanced Information Technology
- International Finance & Economic Analysis
- International Investment Management
- Strategic Finance & Value Creation
- Strategic Management Accounting
- Sales & Key Account Management
- Managing Marketing & Communication
- International Advertising
- Analysis of the Economic Environment
- Corporate Finance
- Energy Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Information Technology Management
- IT Information Technology
- Procurement Management (e-Procurement)
- Enterprise Resources Planning ERP
- Customer Relationship Management CRM
- Business Automation & Workflow
- Business Intelligence BI
- VoIP Enterprise Telephony
- International Business
- Investment and Portfolio Management
- Operations and Logistics Management
- Project Management
- Management by Exception
- Accounting & Finance for Managerial Decisions
- Group Performance
- Strategic Management
- Interorganizational cultural diversity and gender
- Media Management
- Marketing in a global context
- Global supply chain management
- Innovation and new business ventures
- Business Administration & e-Company
- Risk Management
- Public Administration & e-Government
- Business plan
- The Arts and Creativity & Innovation management
- Environmental management
- Social sciences for Manager
- Economics
- Political Science for Manager
- International Relations, Government and Society
- Philosophy for Manager
- Political philosophy for Manager
- Philosophy of economics for Manager
- Exam script and portfolio
