The Bachelor of Business (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) has been built around the following eleven capabilities resulting from a stakeholder consultation process. The stakeholders consulted included, but were not limited to, alumni, industry (prime employers, students and the teaching staff), overseas partners and overseas teaching staff. The eleven capability dimensions are listed in the following table.
These capability dimensions are not mutually exclusive. They provide a “balanced approach” to generic business management as well as logistics and supply chain management and to generic business management practices. Each of these capability dimensions focuses on the specific areas that the stakeholders have stressed are needed by graduates of this program. In structuring the program, each of the above capability dimensions is broken into a number of capability statements as shown in following table. Each of the capability statements has been transformed in to relevant “enabling knowledge and skills” and embedded in the relevant course curriculum.
Capability
|
Element |
Information
Management |
- The ability to identify, understand and interpret basic business concepts
- Able to use the language and technical tools of the field Management
|
Critical Analysis,
Problem Setting
and Solving |
- Distil, scope and critically analyse problems
- Recognise relevant information in the process of solving problems
- Approach problems with intellectual openness and curiosity
- Ability to forecast and propose plans for cost effective interfaces between logistics and other functional business activities
- Ability to apply business and logistic methods and principles to identify problems to improve supply chain management for sustainable practice
- Ability to develop and evaluate creative and innovative solutions by applying a range of appropriate resources to plan for material management and physical distribution of goods and services
- Ability to deal with changing circumstances by integrating strategic, tactical, and operational thinking and initiating action in an ongoing cycle of research, planning and evaluation
|
Responsive
Practice |
- Pursue continuous personal development of knowledge and skills related to a business career
- Ability to work independently
- Develop an integrated view of human behaviour in the workplace
|
Evidence Based
Practice |
- The ability to use data, information and tools to make decisions and communicate solutions
- Use a variety of IT and IS tools to communicate results when making decisions
|
Socially Aware
and Responsible
Practice |
- Able to relate personal ethical standards to the needs and expectations of the business environment
- Contribute to decisions within diverse political, economic, environmental and social contexts
|
Interpersonal
and
Communication |
- Ability to communicate effectively to build and maintain relationships with other professional at various levels of business organisation, stakeholders, clients, team members and management
- Ability to utilise a broad range of communication strategies (methods, modes and media) to listen, reflect and respond in a professional manner
|
Teamwork and
Leadership |
- Ability to actively engage with and influence a range of people within business environment to achieve stated business goals and objectives
- Ability to effectively lead small teams and participate in teamwork
|
Supply Chain Management
Practice |
- Ability to understand and implement concepts, techniques and applications that underpin supply chain management
- Ability to apply systemic thinking to manage a supply chain
- Ability to integrate, co-ordinate, and synchronise activities of a supply chain
- Ability to link strategic and operational system thinking with appropriate action to inform and facilitate day-to-day decisions in supply chain management (ability to integrate, collaborate and synchronize)
- Ability to articulate and deliver quality outcomes in a customer focused environment
- Ability to practice effective logistics and supply chain management within legal, regulatory, business, and ethical frameworks in local and international environment
|
Logistics Internal Integration
Operations |
- Ability to source, adopt and utilise appropriate technology and applications to plan logistics strategies and automate logistics operations
- Ability to manage occupational health and safety risks to logistics operations and contribute to a safe working environment
- Ability to recognise process improvement drivers
- Ability to allocate, manage and control logistic resources (inventory, transport and facilities)
- Ability to demonstrate strategic awareness of the role of logistics in domestic and international markets
|
Material Management
Practice |
- Ability to understand and implement concepts, techniques and applications that underpin material management operations
- Ability to apply systemic thinking to material and process mapping and flow to various business organisations
- Ability to purchase, monitor and control materials, information and cash flow
|
| Distribution Practice |
- Ability to understand and implement concepts, techniques and applications that underpin distribution / delivery of goods and services
- Ability to demonstrate strategic and operational awareness of the management of distribution of goods and services in domestic and international markets
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