Logistics and Operations Management (MSc)

Develop the knowledge and skills to manage these critical business functions.

Producing and delivering products and services on time, in budget, effectively and efficiently, is critical to the economic viability of contemporary organisations. However, with growing demand across vast geographies, viability is constantly under threat.

In order to meet these demands, logistics and operations management professionals are increasingly drawn from diverse disciplinary backgrounds including mathematics, economics, engineering, geography, law, management and psychology.

The business of changing the world is ours.

Our MSc in Logistics and Operations Management recognises the importance of multi-disciplinarity. We’ll help you become a management professional prized for their problem-solving capabilities; someone who creates order from complexity, identifies issues and implements solutions and ensures end-to-end efficiency, without compromising the ethics of logistics and operations across organisations’ products and services.

Our experts will draw on academic and consultancy expertise to prepare you for global career opportunities, helping you explore transportation and low carbon logistics, inventories, warehousing and procurement, and resource and materials management. They’ll use world leading research and real-world examples to introduce you to technological innovations in logistics, alongside the latest management techniques, systems and thinking.

Accreditations

• Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)
• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
• Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)

Cardiff Business School is accredited by AACSB international - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Careers

At Cardiff Business School, you’ll receive a career-changing education from world-leading academics that have different points of view. They’ll challenge your thinking as you consider the world of business from a range of alternative perspectives.

On our MSc in Logistics and Operations Management, you’ll benefit from the knowledge and expertise of our Career Enhancer Team. They’re ready and waiting to identify events and opportunities to help you achieve your future aspirations.

We’ve developed relationships that range from the largest multinationals to the smallest micro-businesses, and include a wide variety of social enterprises and cooperatives. We use these networks to deliver value for our students through:

• real-world case studies and insights
• collaboration with our Public Value Entrepreneurs in Residence
• guest lectures from Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport members
• field trips and workshops.

This wide ranging and varied learning experience will help enhance your career and demonstrate how you can make a difference along the way.

Our MSc Logistics and Operations Management graduates go on to a vast range of careers in the logistics and/or operations management related industries.

This can be with global multi-national companies such as Huawei, Panalpina, DHL, PDO or Amazon, or smaller SME enterprises.

Graduates take up both leadership and operational level positions, as well as pursuing policy-making and academic career paths – a number of former students have subsequently completed their PhD in a subject related to logistics and/or operations management.

Placements

Within the dissertation phase you are offered the opportunity (subject to academic performance) to undertake a project in conjunction with an industrial partner. This provides you with the chance to gain knowledge of industrial practice, while contributing primary data for the dissertation study. A limited number of projects are available each year, and a competitive process is undertaken to identify students suitable for the project.