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Why choose the Graduate School of Business
Flexible courses designed to accommodate your work and life commitments with block delivery and different entry points through the year.
Assessments linked to live projects where you can engage with industry professionals and find real business solutions.
Our business and management courses rank 4th overall in their subject field in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024, with top 3 rankings for teaching, student engagement, sense of community and organisation.
About the course
Our 22-month MSc Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics prepares you for a range of management careers in logistics, procurement, supply chain, inventory and transportation. You develop the attributes and skills expected of postgraduates, as recognised by professional industry bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), while gaining practical knowledge of important concepts, tools and methodologies including JIT and Lean. The data analytics units enable you to synthesise complex information, with topics including big data, programming and the importance of analytics in decision making.
For further course information, contact Ioannis Dermitzakis at ioannis.dermitzakis@beds.ac.uk
Course accreditation
This course is accredited by The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. Accreditation demonstrates that our degree meets a globally recognised benchmark for logistics and transport training, equipping you with the depth of knowledge and technical prowess required to excel in the industry.
Facilities and specialist equipment
- Modern business analytics suite with over £500K of industry-standard hardware and software
- Advanced simulations and international learning resources from Harvard Business Publishing
- Reuters trading room offering live ‘stock-market’ data for a realistic investment experience
- Business pods, boardroom areas and IT suites designed to simulate a professional office environment
Your student experience
Learn from academics who use their active industry engagement to shape course delivery and ensure you keep up to date with the latest advancements in the field.
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ with staff from our Operations and Project Management Group, benefitting from their direct involvement in cutting-edge research as well as collaborative, international learning opportunities.
Our practice-based approach develops your understanding of financial analysis; contract and procurement; and digital business management.
Alongside specific subject expertise, develop transferable skills including team working; negotiation skills; leadership; confidence; and the ability to apply critical and creative thinking to complex and unclear problems, developing innovative solutions.
Gain additional qualifications through PRINCE2 professional exams.
Learn to evaluate and interpret complex data, research sources and methodologies with practical exercises grounded in everyday scenarios.
Unlock invaluable insights in our Global Guest Speaker series of talks, which features representatives and business leaders from prominent industry organisations.
Take part in subject-specific field trips to sites such as PW Gates Logistics and the Volvo distribution centre as well as attending the annual CILT conference.
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ the essential techniques and methodologies used in today’s workplace, from JIT and TQM to Six Sigma and lean principles.
Apply your learning to real-world challenges through authentic assessments; case studies; and your choice of Master’s capstone dissertation, live project or professional practice.
Solve real-life problems working with the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s Research and Innovation Service (RIS) where you can assist local businesses and SMEs to up-skill and innovate.
Course Leader - Ioannis Dermitzakis
I am a Senior Tutor in the Department of Strategy and Management with over 12 years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education.
I have over 20 years of industry and management experience having worked in a range of organisations in the UK, Middle East, Greece, and South Africa.
I teach various management and supply chain related subjects at postgraduate level. I also supervise MBA and MSc dissertation students.
I am the Programme Leader for both the MSc in Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics, having previously been the Programme Leader for the MBA with Data Analytics.
Course Leader - Ioannis Dermitzakis
I am a Senior Tutor in the Department of Strategy and Management with over 12 years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education.
I have over 20 years of industry and management experience having worked in a range of organisations in the UK, Middle East, Greece, and South Africa.
I teach various management and supply chain related subjects at postgraduate level. I also supervise MBA and MSc dissertation students.
I am the Programme Leader for both the MSc in Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics, having previously been the Programme Leader for the MBA with Data Analytics.
Course Leader - Ioannis Dermitzakis
I am a Senior Tutor in the Department of Strategy and Management with over 12 years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education.
I have over 20 years of industry and management experience having worked in a range of organisations in the UK, Middle East, Greece, and South Africa.
I teach various management and supply chain related subjects at postgraduate level. I also supervise MBA and MSc dissertation students.
I am the Programme Leader for both the MSc in Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics, having previously been the Programme Leader for the MBA with Data Analytics.
Course Leader - Ioannis Dermitzakis
I am a Senior Tutor in the Department of Strategy and Management with over 12 years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education.
I have over 20 years of industry and management experience having worked in a range of organisations in the UK, Middle East, Greece, and South Africa.
I teach various management and supply chain related subjects at postgraduate level. I also supervise MBA and MSc dissertation students.
I am the Programme Leader for both the MSc in Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics, having previously been the Programme Leader for the MBA with Data Analytics.
Course Leader - Ioannis Dermitzakis
I am a Senior Tutor in the Department of Strategy and Management with over 12 years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education.
I have over 20 years of industry and management experience having worked in a range of organisations in the UK, Middle East, Greece, and South Africa.
I teach various management and supply chain related subjects at postgraduate level. I also supervise MBA and MSc dissertation students.
I am the Programme Leader for both the MSc in Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics, having previously been the Programme Leader for the MBA with Data Analytics.
Course Leader - Ioannis Dermitzakis
I am a Senior Tutor in the Department of Strategy and Management with over 12 years’ experience of teaching in Higher Education.
I have over 20 years of industry and management experience having worked in a range of organisations in the UK, Middle East, Greece, and South Africa.
I teach various management and supply chain related subjects at postgraduate level. I also supervise MBA and MSc dissertation students.
I am the Programme Leader for both the MSc in Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics, having previously been the Programme Leader for the MBA with Data Analytics.
What will you study?
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ing our Supply Chain Management with Data Analytics MSc course will equip you with the knowledge and skills around supply chain networks, applied computing and information technology. You will be exposed to the developments and dimensions involved in designing a modern supply chain and examine key issues in its management within our Designing and Managing the Supply Chain unit. To do so, you will be taught to assess state of the art models and solutions used in the design, control, operation and management of supply chain systems. At the same time, this unit incorporates elements of Information Technology while considering customer value and international issues in supply chain management.
Similarly, you will develop a solid understanding of supply chain and logistics concepts in our Integrated Supply Chain and Logistics Management unit. Here, you will consider key components in supply chain management such as demand estimation, dealing with uncertainty, packaging issues in transportation and managing inventory. This will allow you to understand the key challenges of integrating areas such as procurement, processing and distribution with proper management and control in supply chain operations. In addition, you will consider an increasingly important element to supply chain management in a contemporary business environment – sustainability. Business Sustainability in Practice will expose you to business impacts on the natural environment while allowing you to consider how these impacts can be managed to improve the environmental sustainability of large and small businesses to meet its obligations – such as transition to net or zero greenhouse gas emissions or other pollutants.
You will also be introduced to the concept of environmental management systems and the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDG) that will allow you to enhance your management skills and assess business and management practices to develop strategic and operational opportunities to embed sustainability more deeply throughout an organisation. In the data analytics portion of this course, you will be introduced to the principles of data mining in the context of business and management in our Applied Data Analytics unit. You will explore common text mining, data mining and data analytics methods and learn to apply this to real-world datasets to solve business problems. Within this unit, you will be equipped with the industry skills to use SAS Viya – a cloud-enabled analytics engine that supports coding, visual interfaces, advanced analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Aside from this, you will explore the principles of Knowledge and Information Management for effective management in a variety of business settings. This unit will discuss the role of data, knowledge and information in strategy, data analytics and organisation decision making. Similarly, you will be introduced to the tools and techniques within Business Intelligence and Data Utilisation to design, plan, implement and manage strategic decision making to maximise a company’s success. Finally, you will complete our Capstone unit that will allow you to bring theory and practice together and research a topic of your interest that is relevant to your field of study. To help you with this, you will be introduced to the processes and techniques of research methods while working with a research supervisor to develop your ideas. To help you with this, our Strategy unit will provide you with a critical and informed understanding of business environments and the business opportunities within them. Here, you will be introduced to a range of tools and concepts for strategic analysis and business modelling that will allow you to assess the strategic position of business organisations, formulate strategies, evaluate options and implement strategic decisions.
How will you be assessed?
A number of different assessment methods will be used to help enhance your learning outcomes of this course. You will receive detailed briefings of the assessment and the marking criteria for each unit. In preparing your work/assignment for each assessment your unit tutor will provide you with support and help you to enhance your learning outcome and assessment performance.
Typical types of assessment for this course includes:
Individual Written Report - Your knowledge and skills are developed when you undertake the task of writing an individual report and the whole process contributes to your improvement when it comes to conducting postgraduate level research and developing your enterprise. The ability to carry out literature-informed research to review and evaluate the relevant sources and to use an appropriate methodology in order to analyse and evaluate the relevant concepts is being assessed.
Case ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Analysis - You will apply relevant theoretical concepts or models covered in the course to analyse given case studies.
Oral Presentation - A number of transferable skills will be developed including the ability to present your findings in a professional clear and concise manner.
Reflective Report: Evaluating your own contribution to a team project is essential in the context of this course but in the workplace as well. Artifacts : to support applied computing and information technology units
Dissertation / Professional Practice / Business Live Project: Regardless of which masters capstone experience you opt for you will have to produce an individual independent piece of work. The three options are equivalent in weighting however offer three distinct approaches to explore a research problem. The distinction between the three approaches is underpinned by the design of research methodology. You will be asked to identify the research question or problem under investigation review the relevant literature and develop a sound methodology in order to explore the problem proceed with the analysis discuss your findings and make recommendations. It is the capstone of this course and builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in all Units. It will be one of the most challenging but yet enjoyable and rewarding experiences you will encounter ever! Please refer to the unit information form (UIF) of each of the three options for details.
You are expected to make use of the journals professional bodies and the media in order to keep up-to-date with information examples debates discussions and events in procurement logistics and supply chain management practices. Your enquiry skills will be developed through lectures and workshops. You will be introduced to various research methods such as survey interview focus group action research and various quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques. Through the final capstone unit in purchasing logistics and/or supply chain management you will be able to apply some of these methods and techniques to carry out independent research. The notions of accountability and academic integrity will be an integral part of your course. You will be informed about what plagiarism is and how to avoid it during the delivery of each Unit. Where an individual project is required you will be asked to show the different stages of your work or to present it in its entity upon completion. Where collaborative tasks are assigned an individual reflective report or individual viva may be required to indicate your contribution to the team.
All coursework assignments will require a thorough evaluation of the sources used and referencing will be done according to the Harvard Referencing System. As mentioned in an earlier section a range of assessment methods will be used throughout the course and students will be required to undertake a variety of assessments including individual reports essays case studies oral presentations reflective report and a final course project - Business Dissertation Professional Practice or Business Live Project.
The assessments are designed to test students' knowledge and understanding of the subject matter but also to demonstrate the range of skills identified in the section above. Students will also experience some formative assessment activities designed to support the development of their knowledge and skills. The purpose of such assessment is to enable them to monitor and improve their performance. For example they will have the opportunity to discuss a report structure before completing the report to present concepts/findings through presentations and receive feedback before producing a final report or presentation. In preparation for exams they will have opportunity to attempt revision questions with guidance on how to address these with appropriate solutions.
The assessment strategy underlines the course's concern with research and independent thinking the ability to make informed decisions and communicate these under time pressure and finally the all-important skills of teamwork and oral communication of ideas. Written assessments will contribute to the learning outcomes focusing on your ability to research and critically evaluate elements of the curriculum in depth. The assessments will allow you to use a variety of named sources to support their viewpoints.
At the end of four blocks you will progress to the master's capstone experience stage where you will opt to complete either a dissertation a professional practice an internship or a live project unit. Details of each capstone option will be given in corresponding handbook. The knowledge and concepts acquired during the four taught periods of block teaching along with a number of highly important transferable skills will be combined and evaluated during the writing of the final piece of work the masters capstone experience unit. Whether the students opt for a traditional research dissertation or an experiential learning option (Professional Practice or Business Live Project) an appropriate research methods element will introduce the students to the idea of postgraduate and/or action-based research. This final unit will enhance your ability to produce an independent piece of work and it will provide them with an opportunity to show the creativity and independence required in the workplace by holders of postgraduate degrees.
Careers
As a graduate of this course you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to take up a career in business and management generally and specifically in procurement and the management of any aspects of logistics and supply-chain business. Your specialist skills in data analysis give you the option to focus on more IT-related roles in the field.
This course is an appropriate foundation for further academic study at either MPhil or PhD level.
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Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
The total fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £12,300. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International 2024/25
The total international fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £18,300.
If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Please note that this course is two years in duration. International students enrolling on this programme will not be permitted to switch to a one-year programme once they have been issued with their Certificate of Acceptance of Studies (CAS) unless requested by the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to do so.
Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
The total fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £12,300. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International 2024/25
The total international fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £18,300.
If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Please note that this course is two years in duration. International students enrolling on this programme will not be permitted to switch to a one-year programme once they have been issued with their Certificate of Acceptance of Studies (CAS) unless requested by the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to do so.
Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
The total fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £12,300. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International 2024/25
The total international fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £18,300.
If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Please note that this course is two years in duration. International students enrolling on this programme will not be permitted to switch to a one-year programme once they have been issued with their Certificate of Acceptance of Studies (CAS) unless requested by the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to do so.
Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
The total fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £12,300. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International 2024/25
The total international fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £18,300.
If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Please note that this course is two years in duration. International students enrolling on this programme will not be permitted to switch to a one-year programme once they have been issued with their Certificate of Acceptance of Studies (CAS) unless requested by the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to do so.
Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
The total fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £12,300. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International 2024/25
The total international fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £18,300.
If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Please note that this course is two years in duration. International students enrolling on this programme will not be permitted to switch to a one-year programme once they have been issued with their Certificate of Acceptance of Studies (CAS) unless requested by the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to do so.
Fees for this course
UK 2024/25
The total fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £12,300. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees and living costs. Visit
Alternatively if you have any questions around fees and funding, please email admission@beds.ac.uk
International 2024/25
The total international fee for a 2-year taught Master's degree for the Academic Year 2024/25 is £18,300.
If you have any questions around fees and funding, please email international@beds.ac.uk
Please note that this course is two years in duration. International students enrolling on this programme will not be permitted to switch to a one-year programme once they have been issued with their Certificate of Acceptance of Studies (CAS) unless requested by the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to do so.