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• Develop your employee’s knowledge and skills in logistics, supply chain and management, enabling them to apply best practice and be more effective within your organisation.
• Managers gain an understanding of how best to provide effective leadership throughout the supply chain life-cycle, enabling them to meet your business challenges.
• Managers are encouraged to think strategically about logistics, procurement and supply chain practices in a global context.
• Huge emphasis is placed on real-world challenges and industry best practice which managers can apply back to your organisation.
• Develops your managers’ self-awareness and confidence to lead and/or operate effectively as a member of a team.

• Join a programme that enhances your supply chain management skills, knowledge and confidence, enabling you to develop your career and take on more demanding projects.
• Raise your awareness and appreciation of advanced logistics, procurement and supply chain practices and learn how to carry out independent and robust research that is relevant to your organisation.
• Develop your ability to critically select the tools and techniques that are most relevant to the challenges your organisation is facing.
• You will have the opportunity to experience a different economic region in the world from a logistics and supply chain perspective during an international study tour.
• Develop a strategic mind-set to enable the achievement of business objectives.
• Develop the self-awareness and confidence to successfully lead and operate more effectively as part of a team.
• Apply your newly acquired knowledge, skills and abilities immediately in your workplace.
• SWAGºÏ¼¯ with a diverse cohort of talented professionals drawn from a range of industries and backgrounds, building your network and giving insights into international practice.
• Not only will this MSc broaden and deepen your professional network, you'll also join Cranfield’s active alumni network of 75,000 managers and leaders across the globe.

How it is taught
Parts I and II are taught through a blended learning method which combines face-to-face teaching, online and on-the-job learning with independent self-study.

Off-the-job training
Students will spend 20% of their time on off-the-job training. This is a mandatory component of an apprenticeship that the employer must support. Some of this time will be spent on the taught element of the programme, but may also include practical training, attending meetings outside the normal job function, work shadowing, attending conferences and workshops, and time spent writing assignments.

Support for students
Students will engage regularly with a learning coach who will give guidance on how to implement their new knowledge in the workplace. Students will have set sessions with them, but they will also be able to assist with queries along the way.

Our dedicated apprenticeship tutors will support both the student and line manager through the apprenticeship programme. The tutor will meet regularly with the student, to provide guidance and support in the practical application and evidencing of the apprenticeship Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours that are required to be met before the End Point Assessment takes place.

The student will also receive additional support from their line manager. We will work with them to ensure they understand the details of the programme and format for learning as well as the requirements for off-the-job training and monitoring of progress.

On successful completion of Part I, including End Point Assessment, the student will be awarded:

• The Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship
• Postgraduate Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

On successful completion of Part I and Part II, the student will be awarded:

• Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc (Executive)

The MSc has been designed in two parts. The first consists of the 20-month Senior Leader Apprenticeship programme, and the second consists of a thesis (including the evidence-based management module). Part two begins after successful completion of the Apprenticeship End Point Assessment (EPA).

The thesis project is supported by a faculty member as a supervisor, and helps MSc students to:

• investigate an area of particular interest to them and their organisation,
• apply their new knowledge and tools to a real-life challenge,
• address a particular problem that their organisations are facing.

Organisations have found the MSc thesis projects very useful as they tackle strategic and operations issues, and usually build a basis for further projects and initiatives. Some of the recent thesis projects have been around, but not limited to, supply chain sustainability, procurement maturity models, omni-channel logistics networks, industry-specific supply chain best-practices, sourcing strategies and decisions, supply chain digital transformation, Industry 4.0 applications in the supply chain processes and functions (e.g. order-fulfilment, warehousing, supplier management, and category management), supply chain risk and resilience (in a wide range of industries such as food, clothing, aerospace, high-tech, and manufacturing), supply chain innovation, and new technology implementation (e.g. 3D printing and augmented reality).

A student undertaking study from start to finish without deferment or suspension, will complete the academic and apprenticeship elements in 26 months.

Our Senior Leader Apprenticeship+ MSc programmes are 26-month programmes consisting of two core payments. Part I can be fully funded by the SWAGºÏ¼¯ Apprenticeship Levy (£14,000), which will be collected monthly through the DAS system after initial registration, with the final 20% collected through DAS on completion of the End Point assessment. Part II can be funded by employer or employee and is priced at £5,000 which will be due for payment at month 16.

Fee notes

• The fees outlined apply to all students whose initial date of registration falls on or between 1 August 2022 and 31 July 2023.
• All students pay the tuition fee set by the University for the full duration of their registration period.
• Additional fees for extensions to the agreed registration period may be charged.
• Eligibility for Home fee status is determined with reference to SWAGºÏ¼¯ Government regulations. As a guiding principle SWAGºÏ¼¯ or Irish nationals who are ordinarily resident in either the SWAGºÏ¼¯ or Republic of Ireland pay Home tuition fees. All other students (including those from the Channel Islands and Isle of Man) pay Overseas fees.