Logistics and Supply Chain Management

This module is intended to provide you with a sound foundation to the course by introducing the main concepts and principles that underpin Logistics and Supply Chain Management, including the important issue of sustainability. It presents the fundamental principles of contemporary logistics and supply chain management within a business context.  This unit will explore the ways in which good practice in these fields can contribute to achieving sustainable competitive advantage. Overarching aspects of Supply chain sustainability are explored, such as corporate responsibility and ethics.

Global marketplaces are characterised by shortening product life cycles, increasing product variety, and highly variable demand that is difficult to forecast.  The module explores how the competitive landscape is constantly changing, and the role of logistics and supply chain management in meeting the challenges raised.  Research from Cranfield faculty is integrated with our own case studies, originating from a network of companies in a range of sectors to demonstrate particular concepts around agile and lean supply chains.

The module comprises the following content:

• Supply chains and competitive advantage introduces the principles of logistics and supply chain management and the potential impact on a focal firm’s competitive position and its organisational vision and performance.
• Supplier relationships covers the different types of supplier relationships from arm’s length transactional to Joint Ventures, explores the nature of collaboration between supply chain members and supplier networks.
• Managing the lead-time and lean thinking explains how to measure and improve lead-time gap and describes the implementation of lean thinking, identifies the seven deadly wastes and techniques to reduce waste in the supply chain.
• Agile supply chains are necessary to thrive in volatile demand situations experienced in many markets today. This session compares and contrasts agile with lean, provides a framework for agile supply chains, including capabilities and practices to improve agility.
• Variety challenge focuses on proliferating product ranges and strategies that can be employed to deal with this, such as mass customisation, form postponement and design for the supply chain.
• Segmented supply chain strategy explores how supply chain strategy can be differentiated to meet different customer needs, and new market strategies/business models.
• Integrating the supply chain explores internal integration between functions and external integration between supply chain mem

  Admission Requirements

  Academic Requirements

  You need the following GMAT score:

  Required score: 600

  The GMAT is specifically designed for admission to business or management schools, and is meant to test how prepared you are for a business degree programme

  You will need:

  • a UK first or second class Honours degree in a relevant subject area or
  • an equivalent international qualification (find out whether your qualification meets our requirements by visiting our International Student page) or
  • relevant work experience in combination with a degree below second class Honours.

  If you do not meet our formal entry requirements, but still feel you can demonstrate the ability to complete the course successfully, you may still be accepted onto a course. Each application will be considered on its merits.

  Having taken your application into consideration, the course director may also require you to take GMAT (minimum score 600) or GRE (75th percentile in both the verbal and quantitative reasoning sections). The GMAT course code for the Masters in Logistics and Supply Chain Management is K2H-N3-21 and our GRE institution code is 3641.

  English Proficiency: IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.

  Tuition & Financial Information

  Tuition Fee

  GBP 21,000 (Tuition (Full programme)) — International students; GBP 12,500 (Tuition (Full programme)) — EU/EEA students

  Tuition fees: GBP 21,000 (Tuition (Full programme)) — International students; GBP 12,500 (Tuition (Full programme)) — EU/EEA students

  IELTS requirement: 6.5

  Financial Aid & Scholarships

  Contact Cranfield University directly for scholarship, grant, and financial aid information for this programme. Many European universities offer merit-based and need-based funding for international and domestic students.

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  Application Information

  • Start Date 21 January 2026
  • Language English
  • Duration 12 months

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