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Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Honours in Supply Chain Management

28 October 2020
Categories: Marketing, Supply Chain

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Honours in Supply Chain Management SAQA ID: 117085 Our Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Honours in Supply Chain Management is an IMM Graduate School qualification on NQF level 8 and is quality assured by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) South Africa. The minimum time to complete this postgraduate qualification is a year and the maximum time is 4 years. Supply chain managers are responsible for managing relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and the final consumer. In this role you will be involved in the production of the product, managing inventory and ensuring that the final…

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The relationship between, and the importance of, a Value Chain; a Supply Chain and Supply Chain Management.

22 June 2020
Categories: COVID-19 / Coronavirus / Lockdown, General, Supply Chain

By Dr Myles Wakeham and Annie Beckerling The recent outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of Supply Chain Management (SCM), as a sudden increase in demand for certain products and a complete standstill in demand for others has left many suppliers reeling. However the man in the street can still find it difficult to distinguishing the features that contrast a value chain, a supply chain and finally supply chain management (SCM).. Although there is a strong relation amongst these three activities, there are key differences that make them stand apart from one another.

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Coronavirus and the end of the global supply chain

28 April 2020
Categories: COVID-19 / Coronavirus / Lockdown, Export Management, Supply Chain

Coffee illustrates how complex supply chains have become ©MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP/Getty Images Posted by Paul Simpson Coronavirus has shown how fragile our cost-driven, just-in-time processes really are. With practitioners adapting to survive while planning more resilient systems for the future, will procurement ever be the same? When the first container ship arriving from China at the port of Vancouver was cancelled in January this year, it didn’t seem particularly significant. By mid-March, when China’s struggle with Covid-19, aka coronavirus, had become so all-consuming that 30 more journeys had been cancelled, Vancouver’s port officials were facing a crisis of historic magnitude.

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Supply Chain Management during the COVID-19 pandemic

1 April 2020
Categories: COVID-19 / Coronavirus / Lockdown, Export Management, General, Supply Chain

The COVID-19 virus has brought humanity, as we have come to know it, to its knees. Where kindness, sharing and caring once prevailed, now self-preservation reigns in shopping malls throughout the world as the “have’s” stockpile their larders with vitals at the expense of the poor, the needy, the aged and the sick. Shopping trolleys are filled to the brim not because there is a dire and urgent need to satisfy physiological needs but rather the wanton greed to plunder shopping shelves without giving any consideration for the shoppers in the queues behind them.  Imagine if the world did not…

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Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) in International Supply Chain Management

10 November 2019
Categories: Business Management, Export Management, Supply Chain

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) in International Supply Chain Management SAQA ID: 110628 In today’s ever-changing world, built on technology, e-commerce and global trade, supply chain management is increasingly becoming a pivotal personal competence, and a key competitive advantage for many businesses. This trend is manifesting in a worldwide shortage of supply chain management (SCM) skills and, in particular, a critical skills shortage in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hence the need for comprehensive and relevant SCM education and training. Where marketing determines what offerings customers want and need, SCM ensures that the inputs that are needed to produce these offerings are available…

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Distance Learning with IMM Graduate School

15 February 2019
Categories: Advertising, Business Management, Customers, Export Management, Finance, General, Leadership, Marketing, Programmes, Supply Chain

Have you asked yourself where you want to be in five years’ time? That’s a question we ask ourselves throughout our lives.  Probably the most common answer is to secure your future and have a well-paid job, or in many instances, running your own business. Of course, the trigger here would be to have graduated with a degree, certificate or diploma. But you might be in the situation where you  either can’t afford to attend university full-time or you are dependent on a job to support yourself or your family.  The solution would be to consider part-time distance/online study. Fortunately,…

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