TRANSFORM YOUR FUTURE WITH SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY’s

MA in PROCUREMENT and LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

at BOTSWANA ACCOUNTANCY COLLEGE (BAC)

The Sheffield Hallam’s MA in Procurement and Logistics Management has been designed to provide students with an understanding and the relevant skills to procure /source on a global basis. The course is specifically targeted at people within the procurement and/or supply chain sector, or people wanting to enter the procurement profession. This course is informed by academicresearch and practical applied knowledge to provide you with an in-depth understanding of procurement, supply chain management, the global perspective, logistics, corporate governance, ethics and contract management.

The course aims to provide a broader realisation of the many aspects required for people wanting to enhance their knowledge of this subject and move to the next level professionally.

Tailor your learning to your workplace

We tailor assignments and projects to the needs of your organisation, and your own areas of interests, which maximizes the value of your studies.

Teaching Boardroom style

The delivery of the teaching uses a boardroom style approach, rather than traditional classroom format. This format aims to familiarize you with executive environment, and prepare you for future leadership at executive level.

Modules

Students on this course will study the following modules:

Quality and Supply Chain Management

Quality in Supply Chain Management aims to bring an overview to of the area of supply chain management from a quality perspective. This module seeks to explore the complex relationship between quality and supply chain management and the implications that one has on the other thereby enabling participants to innovatively manage their delivery within increasingly global markets.

International Financial management

This module explores the complexity of financial management, in a global context. Students will be encouraged to develop the critical, theoretical and practical skills to understand the problems of managing finance in global multi-national organisations. The module will address the problems of financial management and the financial solutions available to minimise risk and maximise shareholder wealth in such organisations.

Corporate governance and ethics

This module will help students understand why Corporate Governance is important to individual organisations; national stock markets and the globalized economy, and how Corporate Governance operates around the world. It will introduce students to ethical ideas: helping them to understand how ethics impact the study of Corporate Governance at the level of the individual; corporation; and the nation.

Procurement Management

In their projection for the year 2032 "80:20 Procurement and supply towards CIPS Centenary. What do the next two decades hold for the profession?" [1], The UK's Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply predict "procurement professionals must become experts: respected; influential; persuasive; visionary; strategic; sharp; global; collaborative; executive and business savvy. We need to develop a new definition of ‘expert’, where the new supply professionals will be ‘students of their own industry’. They will know everything about it, from the science, economics, law and politics of their supply markets on a global scale. […] We also predict that the profession will have to work in an age where the global centre of gravity has shifted from west to east, in an age when China and India will be powerful consumer markets in their own right. The role of the procurement professional will be to secure supply into, as well as from, those nations, as well as offering expertise and cultural awareness to sales-focused areas of business. "

The role of the procurement professional is becoming more strategic and central to the role of the organisation. It will become even more important as major trends start to hit procurement, including increased Corporate Social Responsibility, technological advances, global geo-political and macro-economic change, changing demographics, and a shift in the economic centre of gravity.

This module delivers an eclectic mix of ten core topics that will be fundamental in procurement management in the next 20 years.

Global Logistics

This module provides the student with a critical understanding of the role global logistics plays in global supply chain management. It will cover the practical implications of delivering and receiving shipments across national borders; such issues as transportation means and methods, INCOTERMS® and shipping documents, custom clearance. Practical implications will include developing flexible procedures to deal with logistical problems which are prevalent for many organisations engaged in international trade.

International Strategic Management

As international business has grown and developed, the companies which engage in it have developed different organisational forms and international business strategies to gain competitive advantage. With the advent of globalisation, companies are now developing into global enterprises and seeking to develop strategies which will give them global competitive advantage. This module aims to facilitate an understanding of the development of International enterprises and the strategies available to such firms to manage and control their operations against the background of a dynamic global business environment.

Global Sourcing

Many organisations strive to harness the potential benefits of global sourcing in order to reduce cost, increase efficiency and improve effectiveness. It is therefore commonplace to find global sourcing initiatives and programmes as part of the supply and procurement strategies of transnational corporations. These strategies go much further than the priority to create value and efficiency in trading relationships and incorporate critical activities like environmental monitoring, political and country risk assessment, and strategic efforts to influence conditions and form strong and flexible partnerships with supply chain actors. The aim of this module is to provide a solid and critical understanding of the fundamental principles of sourcing goods and services across geopolitical boundaries.

Botswana Law and Contracting for Procurement Professionals

A modern procurement professional should understand the legal environment of his or her profession. Therefore, this module covers the Botswana laws as they relate to procurement and contracting for the procurement professional either in public or private sectors. This module aims to facilitate a profound understanding of fundamental principles of contract law and contract management. The module also focuses on the key principles, objectives, processes and challenges of public procurement within the larger legal framework of procurement laws of Botswana.

Research Methods

This module is designed to provide postgraduate students of international business and global business with a useful and practical introduction to research methods.

Specifically the module aims to:

  • Encourage students to examine critically and appraise published research;
  • Enable students to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various research techniques and methods;
  • Encourage students to search for information from a variety of sources and databases and to interpret these;
  • Enable students appreciate the principal research issues which need to be considered when preparing data for analysis;
  • Encourage students to utilise a wide range of research methods for analysing data;
  • Assist students to design a research study of a type which would be suitable for a postgraduate dissertation.

Dissertation

The aim of this module is to develop capability in undertaking independent research projects by conducting a research study using the appropriate research methodology and methods in such a way as to demonstrate development of the self as reflective practitioner with the potential for continuing personal and professional development.

Key facts

Duration: Part time, 2 years

Tuition fees: P68000 per annum

Entry requirements: To join the MA programme, you should have a 2.2 degree, or equivalent, and at least 2 years related experience, or significant managerial and operational experience

Anticipated Start Date:June 2017

For more information, Contact Postgraduate Office BAC at (+267) 3953062; OR email:

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[1] CIPS (2012) Easton, UK. Available at