皇家墨爾本理工大學(xué)

What you will learn

Explore procurement and global sourcing, warehousing, freight and distribution, business operations, digital supply chain and sustainability, circular economy issues, analytics, and the management of human and physical resources.

The Bachelor of Business (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) is designed to help to develop your knowledge and interest in contemporary issues central to the logistics and supply chain management industry.

This unique degree prepares you for this essential industry, providing you with sought-after knowledge, and both hard and soft skills to allow you to thrive in a challenging and rewarding career. Throughout your studies, you'll focus on developing end-to-end supply chain knowledge to deal with day-to-day and strategic supply chain issues.

As a graduate of this degree, you can look forward to a successful career that can take you all over the world.

You can go on to hold job titles such as supply chain or production planner, demand or inventory planner, analyst, procurement and sourcing officer, warehouse and distribution manager, operations manager, procurement manager, and more.

You can find work in a wide range of industries, including:

food, beverage and agri-business
transport and distribution
manufacturing and production
retail and e-commerce
government and public sector
building and construction

This course is suited to students who want to extend studies in business and related disciplines by choosing from a range of second majors and minors to suit career or personal development goals.

The course consists of 24 subjects (each 12 credit points) and includes:

8 compulsory common business core subjects
8 logistics and supply chain management major subjects
8 flexible subjects.

The 8 flexible subjects may be selected from:

a second business discipline major (8 subjects)
a compulsory business discipline minor (4 subjects) plus second minor (any discipline)
a compulsory business discipline minor (4 subjects), plus 4 electives.

A second business major can be selected from:

accounting
economics
entrepreneurship
finance
financial planning
human resource management
information systems
international business
management
marketing.

Career

RMIT’s logistics and supply chain management degree covers topics to develop your knowledge and interest in contemporary issues central to the logistics and supply chain management industry.

Some fields of specialisation to consider for your future career include:

e-commerce: working with technology, finance, supply chain, human resources and marketing teams to design an interface to enable ordering or sales
lean-agile management, data analytics and operations management: allocating the right resources at the right time to the correct part of the supply chain
agriculture or food supply chains: encompassing all aspects of growing an agricultural/food source and getting it ‘from paddock to plate’
closed-loop supply chains: also known as reverse-flow logistics, this covers activities such as product recalls, returns, repair, waste management at the end of a product’s life cycle, and recycling
procurement: roles have been commonplace in large industries and government departments for some time, however, jobs in private industry are increasing, particularly as consumers factor ethical sourcing into their buying decisions
transport/distribution and warehouse management: third- and fourth-party logistics, freight logistics, optimisation of vehicle routing, warehouse management systems, last-mile delivery, city logistics, port management and international logistics.