The aim of this programme is to provide qualifiers with graduate-level knowledge, specific skills and applied competence that provide opportunities for continued personal intellectual growth, gainful economic activity and valuable contribution to society in a new strategic and integrated approach to the field traditionally associated with the procurement of materials and services in manufacturing and non-manufacturing organisations.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 3 years part time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Introduction to the economic and management environment
- Business management
- Accounting concepts, principles and procedures
- Accounting reporting
- Economics
- Commercial law
- Psychological processes in work context
- Personality in work context
- Introductory financial mathematics
Second year subjects:
- General management
- Purchasing management
- Supply chain management
- Financial management
- Production and operations management
- Industrial marketing management
- Organisational psychology
- Cost accounting and control
Third year subjects:
- Strategic management
- Strategic sourcing
- Supply chain alignment
- Supplier relationship management
- Contemporary issues in supply management
- Production and operations management
- Total cost management: a supply perspective
Careers: supply chain planning analyst, supply and demand forecaster, strategic sourcing manager, supply chain relationship manager, channel and distribution manager.
Source: www.unisa.ac.za