Operations and Supply Chain Management
Qualifications
Overview
How do you make sure that people, money, materials, and buildings are used efficiently across the whole organisation? How can you as a manager/planner ensure that your organisation is successful in achieving its goals? These are big questions and it is obvious that a broad number of skills are involved in such an important business role.
Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) is applicable to most organisations and is concerned with the design, planning, and management of all facilities, processes, and activities required to transform resources into goods and services.
Operational managers control more than 70% of organisational resources (people, money, materials, and buildings) used in the production of goods or in providing services. Successful operations managers also need knowledge of marketing, human resource management, and finance.
- UC’s OSCM courses focus on issues such as operations strategy, performance management, supply chain management, procurement, product design, process design, planning, inventory management, project management, quality management, and continuous improvement.
- OSCM is beneficial for students who study disciplines such as Marketing, Human Resource Management, Finance, Information Systems, and Engineering. The flexibility of the Bachelor of Commerce makes double majors, as well as double degrees, possible. By adding OSCM to your studies, you can broaden your education and enhance the prospect of progress in your chosen career.
For the study of OSCM, proficiency in statistics and modelling up to Year 13 is desirable.
Students also do well if they have an interest in solving problems and good communication skills.
To specialise in this field, some concurrent study in Economics, Accounting, and Information Systems is highly desirable.
100-level courses
UC offers a major and a minor in Operations and Supply Chain Management as part of the Bachelor of Commerce (BCom). You can also study this subject as a minor within the Bachelor of Arts.
To major in OSCM within the Bachelor of Commerce, the following 100-level courses are required:
- ACCT 102 Accounting and Financial Information
- ECON 104 Introduction to Microeconomics or ECON 105 Introduction to Macroeconomics or ECON 199 (a STAR course for secondary school students)
- INFO 123 Information Systems and Technology
- MGMT 100 Fundamentals of Management
- MGMT 170 Managerial Decision Making
- STAT 101 Statistics 1
- Plus 30 points from 100-level Commerce or any other UC courses
200-level and beyond
There are a number of OSCM courses at 200 and 300-level which deal with various topics eg, operations strategy, project management, supply chain design, product design, and quality management.
For the complete three-year Bachelor of Commerce Operations and Supply Chain Management major degree plan, and minor courses, see the UC Business School | Te Kura Umanga website.
Every organisation, whether a company or a not-for-profit organisation, has some operations function to it, so the skills learnt in OSCM courses are widely applicable.
Operations and Supply Chain Management provides graduates with the skills and understanding to enable them to function as supply chain managers, production planners, operations managers, quality managers, project managers, procurement managers, business analysts, and management consultants. Many graduates are expected to rise to senior management levels.
Students in other disciplines often find it valuable to include some OSCM courses in their degree programme, as exposure to the principles of OSCM has become an assumed part of the training of quantitative social scientists as well as accountants, computer specialists, and engineers.
For examples of jobs in this area, visit the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.
Find out more about what you can do with a degree in Operations and Supply Chain Management.
Contact us
Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Phone +64 3 369 3888
Email studybusiness@canterbury.ac.nz
Location
Reception Level 2, Business and Law building - see campus maps
Postal address
College of Business and Law | Te Rāngai Umanga me te Ture
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
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