MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management The Higher Education Business and Management School | Escola Superior de Administração e Gestão STRONG-ESAGS

Logistics ceased to exercise only the traditional roles of transporting, storing, and making goods available for processing and consumption. Under the concept of supply chain management (Supply chain management), Business Logistics has assumed increasing responsibilities in the strategy of organizations. Professionals must be prepared to identify and use resources and processes that contribute to facing competition and companies need to develop competitive advantages and implement collaborative relationships in the supply chain through productive negotiations, whose expected result should privilege the trinomial: quality, productivity, and costs.

The MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a completely remodeled and updated program, which reconciles the revision of the classic contents of the area with the incorporation of the main challenges to be considered in the agendas of the actors in this sector, such as the sharing economy; incorporation of artificial intelligence for consumer-centric chain management; the imperative consideration of impacts and environmental aspects in the green supply chain; the models of reverse logistics and circular economy (closed-loop supply chain); operational effectiveness driven by logistics 4.0; integrated supply chain perspective; reduced lead time; intelligent distribution centers.