MSc Purchasing and Supply Chain Management

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Program Design

Total number of hours: 450h

This program consists of five learning experiences rigorously designed to develop your managerial and operational skills in your field of professional expertise.

Professional expertise

8 Course units:

1. Issues in Purchasing and Supply Chain Strategy
   Objective: Learn to evaluate and tackle the strategic challenges specific to Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, while implementing a firm’s global strategy
2. Supply Chain Management
   Objective: Master the principles, methods and tools for the optimal management of production capacities, of information and physical flows (for goods and services), in order to improve a firm’s competitive positioning.
3. Purchasing management
   Objective: Master the principles, methods and tools allowing for an optimal Purchasing performance, while integrating a firm’s global strategy and suppliers market constraints.
4. Decision making in purchasing and supply chain management
   Objective: Deepen the skills in managerial decision making for organizations which face an increasingly uncertain and complex environment.
5. Performance and risk management
   Objective: Develop crucial knowledge in Risk Management, Agility and continuous improvement that leads to operational excellence in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.
6. Information Systems for Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
   Objective: Provide the theoretical and practical knowledge of key digital resources in today’s data- driven organizations.
7. International Issues in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
   Objective: Understand and integrate the specific constraints and management complexity of International Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.
8. Research Methods and Data Analytics
   Objective: Give an overview of research methods and data analytics.

Soft Skills Certificate

Certificate designed by 26 professors & leadership and management professionals in collaboration with TBS Career Starter.

“Soft Skills” are intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that create the conditions for a successful and sustainable team and allow to effectively manage your career.

2 Courses units:

Management and leadership skills

Objective: Acquire nine key competencies to lead teams and manage your professional career.

Career agility

Objective: Reveal your talent and make evolutionary choices in accordance with your deep aspirations.

The Career Starter is a support center that helps students define and develop their career project. Through several lectures, workshops, individual tests and coaching sessions, a specialist will support each student from their first questions to looking for the right internship or job.
Coaching: we support you in your reflection on your skills, strengths and areas for improvement. Through personality tests and individual coaching, we link this self-knowledge to your ambitions and career choices.
Personal Branding: you will participate in workshops to build your CV and e-portfolio to best highlight your experiences and skills for your future employers.

Consulting Mission

A unique exercise that is a major asset in your program!

For the account of prestigious TBS partner companies, students, coached by the professors, carry out a strategic diagnosis aiming to analyze its competitive position, then propose strategic and operational recommendations to meet its challenges.

Examples of partner companies

Aerospace Valley, AIRBUS, Cap Gemini, Comtesse du Barry, Continental Automotive, EY, Hilti, Mars Petfoods, Motorola, Thalès, Rockwell & Collins.

Master Thesis

Objective: Increase your brain agility to anticipate and solve complex business issues in your field of expertise.

Each student in this MSc program is required to write a dissertation which addresses a current issue in management from an academic or professional perspective in his field of expertise.

The student thus contributes to the study, analysis, formalization and abstraction of the identified problem.

Internship

Students may carry out an internship in the company of their choice for a period of 3 to 6 months.

This MSc provides the advanced training required to achieve performance in job positions and missions that:

• Require a global and strategic vision to tackle Purchasing and Supply Chain challenges.
• Impose a transversal approach of a firm’s management decisions, which in turn favors career evolution to top management positions.
• Are conducted in an international context, and are impacted by technological innovations: « For 65 % of Supply Chain departments, managing virtual and international teams is a major challenge for the 5 coming years » (Salary Benchmarking Study, Michael Page, 2019).
• Necessitate strong abilities to work in project mode within multicultural teams in more and more agile organizations.
• Are on the front line when it comes to promoting social and environmental changes.

This MSc emphasis is set on quantitative and data driven decision making, at the heart of a firm’ procurement and operational performance. It provides the advanced skills for:

• High-level Big Data analysis, applied to demand forecasting, market mechanisms understanding, supplier selection process, statistical process control…
• Decision making when interactions are strategic (applied Game Theory) or not (operations research, simulation methods)
• Mastering information, using tools like SAP, Arena, VBA, XlStat…

This Master of Science prepares you for the following job categories:

• Supply Chain Manager
• Purchasing Manager (production, materials, distribution, projects, intellectual services, transport, services, etc.)
• Procurement Manager
• Contract Manager
• Demand Planner
• Supplier Performance Manager
• Supply Chain – Purchasing Analyst
• Supply Chain Engineer
• Flow Manager
• Logistics / Transport Manager
• Commodity Lead Buyer
• Production Planner
• Supply Chain – Purchasing Consultant
• Supply Chain Project Manager