MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management ESLSCA Business School

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

Course program

Divided into 7 modules over 2 years, our Logistics and Supply Chain Management program is presented as follows:

Module 1: Logistics Master Plan

• Purchasing and Supply Chain framework
• Strategy, Business Models
• Diagnosis of the industrial supply chain
• Extended Enterprise - Supplier Development
• Purchase of logistics services
• Supply Chain Modeling
• Logistics certification standards and benchmarks
• Strategy and tactics in industrial logistics

Module 2: Digital Supply Chain

• Supply Chain & IS Management
• Master plan and functionalities of information systems
• International communication standard
• supply chain

Module 3: Industrial Production

• Concepts and theoretical data
• Production programming
• Inventory management
• Scheduling
• Kanban & JIT
• Theory of Constraints

Module 4: Managing the Supply Chain

• Warehouse management
• Management of transport operations
• Transport insurance
• Sustainable Supply Chain
• Transport operations management - optimization
• Transport regulations
• Introduction to customs techniques
• Logistics and collaborative platforms
• Distribution logistics
• e-commerce logistics
• after-sales service and reverse

Module 5: Continuous Improvement

• Fundamentals of risk management
• Design methodology
• Functional analysis methods
• Mathematical & statistical approach
• Logistics performance management
• Continuous improvement approach, TPS, Lean Management and VSM
• 6 Sigma and Statistical Process Control
• Visits, conferences, tutorials, educational games, etc.

Module 6: Financial Management

• Supply Chain Resilience
• General Accounting
• Financial and strategic analysis
• Cost and investment management
• Financial impacts of logistics

Module 7: Industrial Production

• Production & inventory management - Serious games
• FMIL Preparation

Teaching method

The ESLSCA method is based on three pillars:

• Theoretical academic knowledge.
• The experience through the application of lessons in the form of business cases, business games but also Open Innovation challenges and concrete projects / missions promoting the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship and collective intelligence.
• Validation through internships and work-study programs, sharing in the form of conferences, masterclasses and exchanges with alumni, etc.

In addition, the ESLSCA Learning System values the profile of "Augmented Manager 4.0"; it must reconcile between Hard skills, Soft Skills, Digital Skills and Business Skills in order to adapt to the reality of the labor market and ensure maximum employability.

Program Objectives

The Logistics and Supply Chain Management MBA prepares students for:

• Have a transversal discipline. The logistics function participates internally in every decision of the company and ensures, externally, the essential links with customers, suppliers and logistics service providers.
• Acquire mastery of a base of technical and methodological knowledge, both in terms of strategic thinking, network design, good industrial and logistics management practices, the choice of technological solutions and their operational implementation.
• Acquire the approach, concepts and tools of logistics as a strategic weapon in the service of the performance of companies and sectors.

Skills

• Participate in the definition of the company's strategy and define the logistics strategy
• Manager of the Logistics Department
• Manage supply chain activities
• Developing industrial and logistics competitiveness
• Use and develop the logistics information system
• Measure logistics performance
• Practice technological and strategic watch

Logistics and Supply Chain

• Supply chain project manager
• production planner
• Transport Manager
• Request Planner
• Chief Operating Officer
• Head of Inventory Management

Purchases

• Category or family buyer
• Project buyer
• Investment Buyer
• industrial buyer
• Buyer of services
• Public buyer