Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management
Logistics, procurement and supply chain management determine up to 80% of a product’s value. Specialists who can drive improvement for organisations in these critical areas are highly coveted in every global market. This course prepares you to become one of them.
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UCAS Code
Start Date
January 2027
Location
Pontypridd
Campus Code
A
UCAS Points
96
Fees
Home students: £9,790*
International students: £16,800*
UCAS Code
JN93
Start Date
September 2027
Location
Cardiff
Campus Code
B
UCAS Points
96
International students: £17,600*
UCAS Code
Start Date
September 2027
Location
Cardiff
Campus Code
B
UCAS Points
96
International students: £17,600*
Course Overview
Supply chain management is a business-critical function, yet many organisations struggle to find skilled people.
If you want to gain the experience and accreditation to secure in-demand, highly paid, future-proof supply-chain roles across a range of industries, this course is for you. You will become a fully accredited, high-value specialist in the increasingly in-demand field of Supply Chain Management, critical within a range of industries.
Accredited by
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Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)
Why study this course?
What you'll study
During the first year of study, students from multiple specialist degrees come together to study the core functions of management. This includes Supply Chain, People Management (HRM), Marketing, Economics, Law and the Business Environment.
This management year will provide you with a thorough grounding in the key areas and functions within the modern business, as well as the core skills to succeed in both a business environment and your academic studies. The management year helps break down functional silos and allows students to understand the interconnectivity between business functions.
Understand how businesses are affected by the economic environment and explore the models, frameworks and techniques businesses use to analyse their internal and external environment.
Engage in critical contemporary business debates relating to British society and global issues, and establish the inquiry-based skills required to succeed academically throughout your degree.
Discover your inner entrepreneur as you develop the mindset, traits and skills needed to exploit business opportunities and examine the role of entrepreneurs within society.
Explore how approaches to work and patterns of employment have evolved, and how this impacts individuals and societies, with an eye on what the future of work could look like in a tech-driven world.
Understand consumer behaviour, motivation and patterns of consumption, and get a grounding in the core marketing concepts that help you to identify and satisfy consumer needs.
Take a broad and holistic view of the factors that contribute to effective supply chain management, looking at organisation, finances, legalities, ethics, sustainability and more.
Establish the core skills you need for a successful transition into Higher Education gaining the fundamental academic, technical and personal skills needed to progress.
Build your knowledge of the different elements within supply chain, logistics and procurement.
Master key concepts within strategy, project management, contracts and more. Apply your skills to the real world with practical projects and case studies from various industries.
Essentially, what do the numbers mean? Use qualitative and quantitative research methods and statistical analysis tools to make evidence-based decisions about a range of business functions.
Recognise how the various stakeholders within a retail supply chain interact, from marketing and customer service to transport and IT. Understand strategies for managing retail supply chains and logistics.
Develop knowledge of principles, practices and techniques vital to the leadership and commercial management of projects, specific to the role of the purchasing and supply chain professional.
Examine key aspects of logistics including inventory management, warehousing, order processing and customer service, and some of the planning and management techniques involved in the process.
Contract management and commercial negotiation underpin every stage of the procurement and supply chain process, and you’ll learn the key knowledge, approaches and skills here.
Understand sourcing options for a range of procurement expenditures and apply this knowledge as you design, implement and measure a strategic sourcing strategy.
Build on core academic competencies with a focus on applying for internships and placements, gaining key employability skills around self-marketing, networking, CVs and interviews.
Prepare for high-level roles in logistics, procurement and supply chain management.
You’ll refine your expertise in advanced concepts and practices, developing key competencies that increase your career prospects. You’ll also showcase your advanced knowledge with a dissertation.
Understand how risk, vulnerability, and ethical and sustainable responsibilities impact supply chain effectiveness and strategic decisions, applying detailed theory to real-world examples.
Examine different approaches to procurement strategy and how this impacts corporate aims and objectives. Understand buyer-supplier relationships and learn to manage them effectively.
Explore how globalisation and the global corporate environment impact procurement and supply chains, considering strategic, financial, legal and ethical implications.
Reflect on your strategic decision-making abilities as you work in teams in a business simulation, applying the tools, techniques, theories and frameworks you’ve learned throughout your course.
Prepare a proposal investigating a key area within logistics, operations, purchasing and supply chain management, demonstrating your advanced knowledge of the concepts involved.
Demonstrate your academic expertise as you carry out primary research gathering, compare your research with relevant literature, and analyse, present and discuss your findings.
Boost your career prospects in the logistics, procurement and supply chain management industry as you perfect the key skills that help you stand out to employers and land you that dream job.
We regularly review our courses to keep pace with changing skills and employer needs. If a review leads to significant changes, we’ll contact you to explain what’s changing for the coming year.
Teaching and Assessment
Gain practical experience of modern supply chains through industry-informed teaching, real-world projects, and state-of-the-art business simulation software. You'll develop the skills, knowledge, and professional networks needed to thrive in a fast-moving global industry.
You’ll learn the core theory through engaging lectures and seminars. These are interactive and involve group work as you solve real-life organisational problems and case studies set by industry experts, who regularly drop in to work with us.
You’ll be taught by staff with a broad range of business experience that helps bring your learning to life. The staff specific to the Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management course are active in the industry, holding consultancy and advisory roles with councils and government departments and bringing experience from influential roles in the private sector. Their breadth of experience means that they not only provide exceptional academic support but also help you navigate the complex and varied world of global supply chains and guide you towards roles that suit your strengths and interests.
Your theoretical knowledge is assessed through coursework and exams, but project work and your work-based placement also make up a significant amount of your assessment, and no modules are 100% exam-based.
As a Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management student, you’ll be highly sought-after by companies who come to us exclusively for interns and placement students. We encourage you to take advantage of a sandwich placement after your second year, where you’ll have the chance to do paid work, get invaluable experience and build industry contacts. These placements are serious roles, where you’ll be well-paid and tackle major tasks, such as handling multi-million-pound deals. You could work at the likes of GE Aviation, Intel, Proxima, Lockheed Martin, GlaxoSmithKline, and Continental, as well as councils and public sector bodies.
Your studies take place at our Treforest Campus, a vibrant and bustling environment set in beautiful surroundings offering everything you need for an outstanding student experience, including great sports, recreation and social facilities. A range of workspaces regularly hold events led by CIPS and the South Wales Business Clinic. The South Wales Business School has state-of-the-art study facilities that are perfect for all the collaborative work you’ll do on the course.
Course Leader
Scott Parfitt
Scott Parfitt is a Senior Lecturer and MCIPS-qualified procurement and supply chain specialist with over 20 years’ experience. An award-winning educator, Scott has extensive links with industry and the public sector. His teaching brings together procurement, logistics and supply chain theory with real-world practice, preparing students for successful professional careers.
Entry Requirements
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
How to applyContextual admissions policyAsk us a question96 UCAS points or above
Typical qualification requirements
A Level:
CCC
BTEC:
BTEC Extended Diploma Merit Merit Merit
Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate:
Pass the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate Diploma with Grade C in the Skills Challenge Certificate and CC at A Level
Access to HE:
Pass the Access to HE Diploma and obtain a minimum of 96 UCAS tariff points
T Level:
P (A*-C)
Additional requirements include:
The University normally requires a minimum 5 GCSEs including Mathematics/Numeracy and English at Grade C or Grade 4 or above, or their equivalent, but consideration is given to individual circumstances.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.
International studentsPre-Sessional EnglishEnglish language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 4 overall and a minimum of 4 in each component or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Fees and Funding
per year
Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).
*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.
Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy. We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
Laptop
The University has computers available on campus and laptops for loan. However, it is highly recommended that you have your own personal laptop, which will be capable of running Microsoft Office 365. As a student you will be able to download a free copy of any software relevant to the course.
Cost: Up to £250
per year
Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).
*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.
Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy. We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
Laptop
The University has computers available on campus and laptops for loan. However, it is highly recommended that you have your own personal laptop, which will be capable of running Microsoft Office 365. As a student you will be able to download a free copy of any software relevant to the course.
Cost: Up to £250
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How to apply
All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS
You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time).
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Logistics, Procurement and Supply Chain Management
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If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.
Applicants accepted through advanced entry may study a different combination of modules to those advertised, as they will be joining a course already in progress. You will be contacted and advised about these modules once your application has been processed and an offer made.
International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.
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