TBS Education Master of Science programs are designed for students who’d like to add highly specific skills and cutting-edge professional expertise to their resume before entering the corporate world.
TBS EDUCATION MSc PURCHASING AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Trade globalization, digitalization, and technological innovations (e.g. Internet of Things, 3D Printing, Big Data…), transform the basic needs of any company to manage and control its Supply Chain, into a major competitive must-have.
Following these drastic changes in the playing field, the different jobs offered in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management require more and more advanced analytical and strategic skills, in a context where employers demand for such specialized labor increase.
The goal of this MSc is to train expert managers to successfully hold key positions in purchasing and supply chain services, and develop their careers.
This program has received the CGE quality label, a national accreditation reserved for top business schools in France. The CGE label guarantees the high quality standards of the program and allows international students to continue to work on French territory after their studies to further fine-tune their expertise.
This MSc obtained the MSc label from CGE
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Head of program
Andrea Mantovani
PhD Professor of Operations Management Department: Information, Operations and Management Sciences
Among the prestigious 1% of business schools with the “triple crown” of international accreditations
Ranked #46 Best European Business School by the Financial Times (2023)
A top-ranked program
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TBS EDUCATION MSc PURCHASING AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
STRENGTHS OF THE MSc
CAREER PERSPECTIVES
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
APPLICATION PROCESS
KEY DATES
STRENGTHS OF THE MSc
This MSc provides the advanced training required to achieve performance in job positions and missions that:
• Require a global and strategic vision to tackle Purchasing and Supply Chain challenges.
• Impose a transversal approach of a firm’s management decisions, which in turn favors career evolution to top management positions.
• Are conducted in an international context, and are impacted by technological innovations: « For 65 % of Supply Chain departments, managing virtual and international teams is a major challenge for the 5 coming years » (Salary Benchmarking Study, Michael Page, 2019).
• Necessitate strong abilities to work in project mode withinmulticultural teams in more and more agile organizations.
• Are on the front line when it comes to promoting social and environmental changes.
This MSc emphasis is set on quantitative and data driven decision making, at the heart of a firm’ procurement and operational performance. It provides the advanced skills for:
• High-level Big Data analysis, applied to demand forecasting, market mechanisms understanding, supplier selection process, statistical process control…
• Decision making when interactions are strategic (applied Game Theory) or not (operations research, simulation methods)
• Mastering information, using tools like SAP, Arena, VBA, XlStat…
CAREER PERSPECTIVES
This Master of Science prepares you for the following job categories:
•For programs taught in English: English mother tongue OR TOEFL IBT 80 / IELTS 6.5 / TOEIC 800 / CAMBRIDGE B2 / FCE / CAT 165
•For programs taught in French: French mother tongue OR DELF B2 OR equivalent
APPLICATION PROCESS
Application & Tuition Fees
•Application fee: 100€*
•Tuition fee: 18,500€ for the entire 12-month program.
To know more about our discounts & scholarships please click here.
* Application fees are non-refundable.
4-Step Application Process
1. Go to the application website and complete the rest of the online application form 2. Upload supporting documents and test scores 3. Take the online interview 4. Admission results will be available within 15 days
For any further questions, don’t hesitate to contact our international admissions team.
Required Documents for Application
• CV
• Cover/Motivation letter/Statement of Purpose
• Passport copy
• Transcript of grades of your latest degree
• Enrollment certificate or diploma
• For the English MSc: B2 English test (IELTS, TOIEC, TOEFL, CAMBRIDGE or DUOLINGO), if your studies were not 100% in English or if you are not a native English speaker
• For the bilingual (French & English)MSc: B2 French test (DELF or TCF) if your studies were not 100% in French or if you are not a native French speaker & B2 English test (IELTS, TOIEC, TOEFL, CAMBRIDGE or DUOLINGO), if your studies were not 100% in English or if you are not a native English speaker
• Letter of recommendation (not mandatory)
KEY DATES
• September 2023: Applications open
• June 2024: Applications close
• September 2024: Program start date
PROGRAM CONTENT
CALENDAR
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
Soft Skills Certificate
Consulting ASSIGNEMENT
Master Dissertation
BUSINESS INTERNSHIP
CALENDAR
*Internship not mandatory.
Total number of hours: 450h minimum
This program consists of five learning experiences rigorously designed to develop your managerial and operational skills in your field of professional expertise.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
8 Course Units:
1. Purchasing and Supply Chain Strategy
Objective: Learn to evaluate and tackle the strategic challenges specific to Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, while implementing a firm’s global strategy.
2. Supply Chain Management
Objective: Master the principles, methods and tools for the optimal management of production capacities, of information and physical flows (for goods and services), in order to improve a firm’s competitive positioning.
3. Purchasing management
Objective: Master the principles, methods and tools allowing for an optimal Purchasing performance, while integrating a firm’s global strategy and suppliers market constraints.
4. Decision Making in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Objective: Deepen the skills in managerial decision making for organizations which face an increasingly uncertain and complex environment.
5. Performance and Risk Management
Objective: Develop crucial knowledge in Risk Management, Agility and continuous improvement that leads to operational excellence in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.
6. Information Systems for Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Objective: Provide the theoretical and practical knowledge of key digital resources in today’s data- driven organizations.
7. Issues in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Objective: Understand and integrate the specific constraints and management complexity of International Purchasing and Supply Chain Management.
8. Research Methods and Data Analytics
Objective: Give an overview of research methods and data analytics.
Soft Skills Certificate
Certificate designed by 26 professors & leadership and management professionals in collaboration with the Career Services. “Soft Skills” are intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that create the conditions for a successful and sustainable team and allow to effectively manage your career.
2 Courses units:
1. Management and leadership skills Objective: Acquire nine key competencies to lead teams and manage your professional career.
Personal Strengths: 1. Knowing yourself 2. Communicating effectively 3. Long life learning skills
Leadership & Management: 4. Building an inspiring vision 5. Leading teams 6. Responsible decision-making
Relational impact: 7. Managing interpersonal relationships 8. Building trust and well-being at work 9. Influencing effectively
2. Career agility Objective: Reveal your talent and make evolutionary choices in accordance with your deep aspirations.
The Career Services is a support center that helps students define and develop their career project. Through several lectures, workshops, individual tests and coaching sessions, a specialist will support each student from their first questions to looking for the right internship or job.
Coaching We support you in your reflection on your skills, strengths and areas for improvement. Through personality tests and individual coaching, we link this self-knowledge to your ambitions and career choices.
Personal Branding You will participate in workshops to build your CV and e-portfolio to best highlight your experiences and skills for your future employers.
Consulting ASSIGNEMENT
A unique exercise that is a major asset in your program! For the account of prestigious TBS Education partner companies, students, coached by the professors, carry out a strategic diagnosis aiming to analyze its competitive position, then propose strategic and operational recommendations to meet its challenges.
Examples of partner companies: Aerospace Valley, AIRBUS, Cap Gemini, Comtesse du Barry, Continental Automotive, EY, Hilti, Mars Petfoods, Motorola, Thalès, Rockwell & Collins.
Master Dissertation
Objective: Increase your brain agility to anticipate and solve complex business issues in your field of expertise.
Each student in this MSc program is required to write a dissertation which addresses a current issue in management from an academic or professional perspective in his field of expertise.
The student thus contributes to the study, analysis, formalization and abstraction of the identified problem.
BUSINESS INTERNSHIP
Students may carry out an internship in the company of their choice for a period of 4 months minimum. This internship is not mandatory for the validation of the diploma.
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