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Business and Supply Chain Management at University of Portsmouth - UCAS

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2023 - 20242024 - 2025
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University of Portsmouth has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework.These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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Course summary

Overview Do you want a career where no two days are the same and where your communication skills and ability to think-up creative solutions will be highly valued? Recent events such as Covid and Brexit have shown how vital our supply chains are. Ensuring the right products are in the right place at the right time and at the right cost is hugely important to life as we know it. What's more, we need to make sure those supply chains are sustainable and aren't harming our environment. On this course you'll learn risk management, strategic management, logistics management and how to procure goods and manage supply lines. You'll use professional software, systems and tools and explore the ethics and sustainability of global supply chains. You'll graduate with a set of management and specialist skills that will be hugely in demand in the workplace. Course highlights

  • Stand out in the employment market with your knowledge of procurement; unlike many undergraduate supply chain degrees, this course has a real focus on global procurement (the sourcing and purchasing of goods), rather than purely the movement of goods (logistics)
  • Portsmouth is a vital supply chain hub and there are great opportunities here to do a paid placement year with local companies like IBM and Boeing
  • Be taught by academics who have supply chain industry experience and research expertise in data driven supply chains
  • Practise your skills through our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) immersive simulation game using real SAP reports
  • Benefit from module options that include business analytics and data modelling, skills that are in-demand in the industry
  • Gain a range of core management skills such as risk management, leadership and developing team creativity alongside your specialist supply chain skills
  • Improve your global employability by spending a year abroad at a partner university in Europe, Asia, Australia or North America
Careers and opportunities Supply chain management is needed everywhere and there's a great shortage of supply chain skills in the UK. You could work in retail, healthcare, manufacturing, shipping and freight, charities or the public sector - the choice is yours. Pay is good; the average salary for all UK procurement and supply chain professionals is £47,435 (CIPS Salary Guide 2021) and there are many varied routes for career progression, including working overseas. Roles you can go on to with this degree include:
  • supply chain management
  • purchasing and procurement
  • procurement management
  • logistics analysis
  • distribution management
  • supply coordination
Previous graduates have gone on to work for companies such as:
  • Marks and Spencer
  • Apple
  • Amazon
  • DHL
  • UPS
  • Automotive (RR)
  • Procter and Gamble (P&G)
Alternatively you could go on to specialist postgraduate study, or set up your own business with the help and support of the University.

Modules

Year 1 Core modules in this year include:

  • Business Accounting
  • Business Operations and Systems Management
  • Economics For Business
  • Managing People in Organisations
  • Marketing Principles and Practice
  • Introduction to Business Analytics
  • Discovering the Supply Chain Professional
There are no optional modules in this year. Year 2 Core modules in this year include:
  • Business Logistics Management
  • Leadership, Ethics, Governance and Sustainability
  • Legal Issues in Procurement and Supply
  • Procurement and Supply
  • Risk Management and Supply Chain Vulnerability
  • Exploring the Supply Chain Professional
Options to choose from in this year currently include:
  • Business Analytics and Decision Modelling
  • Developing Individual & Team Creativity
  • Electronic and Mobile Commerce
  • Financial Decision Making and Control
  • International Business
  • Modern Foreign Language
Placement year (optional) On this course, you can do an optional work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years to get valuable experience working in industry. We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your situation and ambitions. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year. Year 3 Core modules in this year include:
  • Business Improvement & Creativity
  • Operations Strategy and the Supply Chain
  • Dissertation - Operations and Systems Management
Options to choose from in this year currently include:
  • Business Consultancy Project
  • Critical Leadership: Theory and Practice
  • Cross Cultural Awareness For Business
  • Strategic and International Management
  • Critical Leadership: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
  • Project Management For Enterprise
  • Responsible and Sustainable Business
  • Strategic Management
We use the best and most current research and professional practice alongside feedback from our students to make sure course content is relevant to your future career or further studies. Therefore, some course content may change over time to reflect changes in the discipline or industry and some optional modules may not run every year. If a module doesn’t run, we’ll let you know as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

Assessment method

You’ll be assessed through: essays presentations projects exams reflective work computer-based assignments You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark. You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future. The way you’re assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows: Year 1 students: 58% by written exams and 42% by coursework Year 2 students: 27% by written exams, 17% by practical exams and 56% by coursework Year 3 students: 48% by written exams, 5% by practical exams and 47% by coursework

How to apply

25Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

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Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1
  • Year 2

Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)

We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
PTE Academic54An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)7979 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing.
Cambridge English AdvancedCambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Cambridge English ProficiencyCambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Trinity ISEPassTrinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components

Student Outcomes

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £9250 Year 1
England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1
Channel Islands £9250 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9250 Year 1
International £17200 Year 1

Additional fee information

Students who are resident in EU countries: please note that the net fee is inclusive of the Transition Scholarship Placement Year and Year abroad: UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £925 | EU – £925 (including Transition Scholarship)| International (Non-EU) – £1,900. Fees are accurate at the time of publishing and are subject to change at any time without notice. Fees may also go up in later years, in line with inflation. For more information about fees, go to port.ac.uk/ug-tuition-fees
Business and Supply Chain Management at University of Portsmouth - UCAS