Supply Chain Management (Lean SCM Black Belt) University College Cork
Price: USD 16,184
  • Duration: 24 Months

Course details

The Postgraduate Diploma/Master of Supply Chain Management (Lean SCM Black Belt) is a part-time course. It is designed to teach you how to improve supply chain processes, while also providing cost reductions and added value for you and your organisation.

If you are a career-minded person who works in supply chain, manufacturing, quality, financial or related functions and you also have responsibility for continuous improvement within your organisation, this course is for you.

Successful supply chain management (SCM) requires strategic and operational alignment, and this is why the course includes:

  • a strong emphasis on strategy
  • information systems
  • demand management
  • change and innovation
  • integrated project management

Adopting a Lean philosophy, you will apply Lean tools and complete a Lean SCM Black Belt project that achieves organisational and supply chain improvements. 

Course Details

The Postgraduate Diploma/Master of Supply Chain Management (Lean SCM Black Belt) is a practitioner-oriented course. It provides a structured approach to the key elements of supply chain design and management in order to maximise your work experience. The course combines both classroom and distance/on-line learning. The course is informed by best international practice and it includes contributions from our applied partners the Leading Edge Group, as well as fromnational and international guest speakers.

The course is delivered over two stages:

Stage 1:

The duration of stage 1 is 18 months and it leads to a postgraduate diploma qualification.

Stage 2:

Stage 2 is for a further period of six months. If you achieve a 2.1 grade in stage 1, you may progress/convert to a master’s degree.

It consists of seven modules (as outlined below) and the outcome of each module is a workplace assignment contributing to the development and implementation of a substantial organisational and SCM improvement project. This course is examined wholly by continuous assessment and there are no written examinations.

Year 1 (Autumn):

  • Strategic planning and implementation in supply chains (three days in classroom and e-learning)
  • Advanced Lean Tools and practices in supply chain management (three days in classroom and e-learning)

Year 1 (Spring):

  • Leadership, change and innovation management in supply chains (three days in classroom and e-learning)
  • Managing Lean Projects in supply chains (three days in classroom and e-learning)
  • Information systems and technologies in supply chain process design and improvement (one and a half days in classroom and e-learning)

Year 2 (Autumn):

  • Globalisation issues and Capstone Module seminars and workshops (four and a half days in classroom and e-learning)

Year 2 (Spring) – Optional:

  • Master’s (Minor Thesis) 

Detailed Entry Requirements

You should have:

 a minimum second-class honours primary degree in a relevant area and at least four years relevant     industrial experience (including cross-functional team lead experience),

or a portfolio of evidence containing the following:

  • at least six years of relevant management experience, including responsibility for teams and cross-functional/supply chain teams
  • a recognised professional qualification in a relevant area
  • application of learning or competence such as involvement in cross-functional projects, reports, reflective papers or journals

 testimonials of learning or competence through sign-off by an appropriate signatory within the candidate's organisation

Course Practicalities

Two delivery formats may be available, a Blended Learning Approach and a Distance Learning Approach. The former is a blend of classroom activity and on-line resources. In this format on-line resources will be provided prior to workshops, with further on-line resources provided after workshops. Each module will be supported by a 3-day workshop. The Distance Learning programme will be supported by on-line resources including tutorials, e-mentoring and discussion forums. Students are free to migrate from one delivery format to another.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About University College Cork

UCC was established in 1845 as one of three Queen’s Colleges - at Cork, Galway and Belfast. These new colleges theyre established in the reign of Queen Victoria, and named after her.

Queen's College, Cork (QCC) was established to provide access to higher education in the Irish province of Munster. Cork was chosen for the new college due to its place at the centre of transatlantic trade at the time and the presence of existing educational initiatives such as the Royal Cork Institution and a number of private medical schools.

The site chosen for the new college was dramatic and picturesque, on the edge of a limestone bluff overlooking the River Lee. It is associated with the educational activities of a local early Christian saint, Finbarr. It is believed that his monastery and school stood nearby, and his legend inspired UCC’s motto: ‘Where Finbarr Taught, let Munster Learn.’

On 7 November 1849, QCC opened its doors to a small group of students (only 115 students in that first session, 1849-1850) after a glittering inaugural ceremony in the Aula Maxima (Great Hall), which is still the symbolic and ceremonial heart of the University.

The limestone buildings of the Main Quadrangle (as it is now known) are built in a style inspired by the great universities of the Middle Ages, and theyre designed by the gifted architectural partnership of Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward. The iconic image of UCC, it is set in landscaped gardens and surrounds the green lawn known to all as the Quad.

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