MBA Logistics and Supply Chain Management

The Logistics and Supply-Chain Management Program of ESLSCA Business School Paris aims to train young professionals who are competent, cultivated, open to the world and anchored in both values ​​and knowledge. The exercise of Management is not only based on mastery of techniques and technologies but also on the ability to create dynamics by supporting women, men and regions.

The program favors contact with a network of high-level professionals working in first-class companies (industry, commerce, digital, distribution, e-commerce, public sector and sovereign services, education) in a position to offer students openings and opportunities. prospects of interest.

The pedagogical approach favors the alternation between general courses and shorter modules carried out by passionate professional speakers, who are keen to share their experiences. The course will be interspersed with several visits to discover companies, infrastructures, trade shows and attendance at targeted conferences related to our industry.

Our field experience leads us to consider general culture, reading, and interpersonal skills as keys to success that matter as much as mastery of technique. Open to innovation, we favor the exploration of emerging trends to invent the supply chain engines of tomorrow.

The Logistics and Supply-Chain Management MBA at ESLSCA Business School Paris offers two specializations in the second year:

• Logistics & Supply-Chain Specialization
• Purchasing Specialization

The Master Business Administration (MBA) "Logistics & Supply Chain Management" (MBA1 and MBA2) is addressed to:

• students with general, scientific, economic, legal, commercial or management training who wish to deepen their knowledge or acquire dual skills in logistics and supply chain management.
• professionals who, after a few years of experience, seek to develop in their profession, in managerial or functional positions

Courses Program

Module 1: Strategy and Innovation

• Strategy, Business Models
• SME, Disruptive Innovation
• CSR
• Purchases & R.S.E
• Fundamentals of Risk Management
• Business plan, Budgets

Module 2: Project Management and IS

• Digital transformation
• Agile project management
• VBA
• Corporate Finance & Innovation - Start-up Projects (1)
• Corporate finance & innovation - Start-up (2)
• Methodology for organizing logistics information flows
• Management of logistics projects
• Digitalization of the Purchasing function
• Purchasing project management

Module 3: Industrial Logistics

• Industrial Logistics
• Production & inventory management
• Production & inventory management - Serious games
• Supply Chain Modeling & Management
• Lean Management
• Logistics and traceability
• Logistics and SMEs
• Supply Chain Management & ERP
• Supply Chain Resilience
• Supply Chain Environment
• CS performance measurement

Module 4: Distribution Logistics

• Elements of customs techniques
• Transport - Optimization
• Transport - Panorama
• Warehouse logistics
• Transport Insurance
• Distribution logistics
• Logistics and collaborative platforms
• Logistics and international trade
• Sustainable supply chain & Incoterms control
• Transport law

Module 5: Purchasing & Procurement

• Introduction to Purchasing & Procurement - Process
• Purchasing Strategy & Audit
• Purchasing of logistics services
• Specifications
• Contractualization & implementation of the contract
• Management of the relationship with the supplier (S.R.M)
• Management of calls for tenders in the private sector
• Public Purchases
• Purchasing Marketing & Supplier Market Consultation
• Optimization of purchasing costs
• Pricing purchases
• Purchasing performance measurement

Module 6: Skills Valuation

• SITL visit
• Vivatech
• Jobs Purchasing & job search
• Careers & job search in the SC
• Ethics & compliance
• English applied to Logistics
• English applied to purchases

Teaching method

• Contact a network of high-level professionals working in top-notch companies. They will give students openings and perspectives of interest
• Alternation between general courses and case studies of companies led by passionate professionals who want to share their experiences
• Visits, the discovery of companies, trade shows, conferences, and many other events
• Open to innovation, the program makes it possible to discover and explore the trends emerging in the supply chain environment of tomorrow

Objectives

The Logistics and Supply Chain Management MBA prepares students for:

• Have a toolbox enabling them to intervene in the field of the supply chain.
• Develop solid knowledge in the operational management of Logistics, Supply Chain or Purchasing in an international context.
• Acquire the necessary skills to navigate in a complex and uncertain environment.
• Adopt a transversal approach to these Businesses, both internally and with external partners.

Skills

• Test supply chain concepts: Supply Chain Management
• Know the tools and models for decision support and demand forecasting
• Understand the importance of technological developments, particularly in connection with R.S.E.
• Support the transformation of the Supply Chain with digitization
• Understand the logic of a winning partnership with a supplier or service provider
• Manage projects related to Supply Chain or Purchasing.

In the constant search for competitiveness and customer loyalty, the Logistics, Supply Chain, and Purchasing businesses are in high demand on the market - both in France and in all countries of the world.

At the end of your training, you will have the opportunity to occupy positions such as:

• Assistant Project Manager / Logistics Project Manager
• Distribution center Manager, Area Manager, Stock Control Manager
• Production planner
• Supply Chain Support Officer
• Demand planner
• Flow pilot
• Supervisors, team coordinators, and supervisors within companies providing transport and/or logistics services
• Logistics, commercial or operating supervisors within industrial or distribution companies
• Transport and mobility function within public actors providing logistics missions for the public and humanitarian sector
• Logistics consultant

And for the 2nd year Purchases option:

• Direct/indirect purchasing buyer
• Services buyer
• Project Buyer
• Trading buyer
• Category Buyer / Manager
• Sourcing Specialist
• Purchasing Manager
• Purchasing consultant
• Purchasing Project Manager
• Travel Manager