LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT MBA

POSTGRADUATE (PG) PROGRAM OBJECTIVE OF THE PROGRAM

The program is specially designed to produce highly competent graduates who possess the required managerial and technical know-how to successfully manage the value chain that links the acquisition of resources, transformation and delivering of value created to end users. Hence, the aim is equipping students how to build an effective supply-chain management system along the value chain that benefit suppliers, facilitators, organizations, customers and the society at large. The program is also designed to produce graduates who play a significant role in transforming the existing traditional independent business practices into integrated value chain business system which ultimately leads to economic supremacy at country level.

b. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

The specific objectives of the program include:

To enable graduates who will have a significant role in Ethiopia’s economic, social and political endeavors by equipping them with necessary supply chain management knowledge.
To contribute vital role for the development of the emerging profession in Supply Chain Management in Ethiopia.
Upgrading the role of graduate to be engaged more in strategic and tactical supply chain decisions instead of routine and traditional store and buying activities
Meeting organizations’ labor need who specialized in major functions along the material flow
Supporting organizations’ endeavor to become internationally competitive
Establishing a business system and practices that enable to add more value in each Birr an organization or individual citizen spend on resources
Enable students acquire the necessary communication and analytical skills, culture of inquisitiveness, critical thinking, innovation and creativity that enhance their capabilities to benefit from their specialized training
To enable students conversant with Supply Chain Information Technology and able to apply the technology wherever it deemed
To nurture the positive attitude towards changes to be introduced in an organization responding to the dynamic nature of its environment instead of being resistant to it
To meet the strong demand for civil logisticians who will work in public, business and non-government local and international agencies in Ethiopia.
To produce qualified and competent supply chain/value chain/experts who help organizations design their supply chain in the order fulfillment cycle.
To produce supply chain /logistics professionals who can prove their competency as a logistics/supply chain manager candidate in the market.
- MAJOR CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Distribution Manager
Fleet Operations Manager
Logistics Manager/Analyst
Inventory Management
Loss Prevention Manager
Operations Research Analyst
Production and Expediting Manager
Purchasing/procurement Manager
Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Manager
Storage and Distribution Manager
Transportation Manager
Warehouse Management
Port operation Manager & Consultant in LSCM area
- 2.1.3. DEGREE NOMENCLATURE