Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation
Blended learning – on-campus and digital learning
This course will quickly upgrade your ability to innovate across procurement, logistics and supply chain management roles.
In as little as six months you can earn a globally recognised Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation with essential leadership and management skills and a core understanding of supply chain management competencies.
You’ll also develop an understanding of the complex challenges facing today’s supply chain professionals, and how to formulate your own solutions to these challenges.
Hone your ability to analyse supply chains across local and global contexts, to develop integrated systems for logistics operations, and to harness the value of digital technologies for competitive advantage.
Benefit from a course co-designed and co-delivered with industry professionals such as Pitcher Partners, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILTA), and Vative. You’ll engage directly with experienced industry leaders and learn using real-world insights and business cases.
Valuable external accreditations embedded into this course include the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt – Certificate of Knowledge, and GS1 Academic Certificate.
Depending on your previous work experience, you may not need an undergraduate degree to enter this course. This course can also provide an alternative entry into the Master of Supply Chain Innovation.
Graduate outcomes could lead to roles in supply chain management, procurement and logistics management.
Duration
1 year part-time
Intakes
Hawthorn (HE Block 1, Semester 1, Semester 2, Term 4) - View application and start dates
Study mode
- Part-time
2023 Start Dates
2024 Start Dates
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Course industry partners include
It had been 18 years since I'd done any formal study so I was a bit apprehensive, but it was an awesome experience. I was looking for a course which would complement and formalise my 20 years of industry experience. The Six Sigma Green Belt component of the Supply Chain Innovation course provides you with a really good understanding of Lean principles which I’ve been able to utilise in my current work environment.
Andrew
Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation
Be an innovator
Undertake this course and you’ll be joining other change-makers at Swinburne’s Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship – the first dedicated entrepreneurship school in the nation. One of our unique AGSE offerings, this course will give you the mindset of edge.
“Entrepreneurship,” says AGSE Director, Alex Kaiser (pictured), “is about questioning the status-quo, identifying opportunities, making decisions and implementing ideas. Concisely, it’s about having impact.”
Course information in detail
- Course detail, course structure and units of study.
Course description
The Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation covers a range of topics relating to supply chain and logistics management. It develops core capabilities to better understand the role of supply chains in a rapidly changing business environment. The course combines traditional units in Logistics and Project Management with innovation through topics such as design thinking and lean management. The Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation can be a pathway to Masters degrees such as a Master of Supply Chain Innovation.
The Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation forms the first stage in a three-stage nested suite of programs consisting of:- Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation (GC-SCI)
- Graduate Diploma of Supply Chain Innovation (GD-SCI) ^
- Master of Supply Chain Innovation (MA-SCI1)
Course structure
To qualify for the award of Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation students must complete 50 credit points comprising:
- 4 Core units of study
Units of study
Want to know more about the units that make up your course, how many units you need to complete, our recommended study sequence, and what your timetable looks like this year? Check out our Course Planner and get enrolled.
ENT60009 Opportunity Discovery, Creativity and Design
SCM60003 Supply Chain Management
SCM60004 Logistics Management *
SCM60002 Six Sigma Lean Green Belt *
* Outcome units - matched exemptions are generally not granted for higher education outcome units.
Careers and graduate outcomes
- Career opportunities, course aims and objectives and graduate skills.
Career opportunities
Aims and objectives
At completion of the Graduate Certificate of Supply Chain Innovation, graduates will be able to:
- apply coherent and advanced knowledge of supply concepts in diverse contexts and applications using critical thinking
- apply problem-solving, design and decision making methodologies to identify and provide innovative solutions to complex problems with intellectual independence
- communicate proficiently in professional practice to a variety of audiences, function as an effective member or leader of a team
- demonstrate professionalism, integrity, ethical conduct, professional accountability and an awareness of professional practices in a global and sustainable context
- apply supply chain fundamentals to the analysis, design and operation of a model using appropriate business methods and tools.
Graduate skills
The Swinburne graduate attributes signify that Swinburne intends that its teaching programs assist all its graduates to be:
- capable in their chosen professional, vocational or study areas and an ability to engage in critical enquiry
- entrepreneurial in contributing to innovation and development within their business, workplace or community
- effective and ethical in work, community situations and reasoning skills
- adaptable and able to manage change
- aware of local and international environments in which they will be contributing (e.g. socio-cultural, economic, natural).
Pathways and scholarships
- Pathways, credit transfer, recognition of prior learning and scholarships.
Course fees and requirements
- Fees, entry requirements and non-year 12 entry.
Course fees
How do I pay my fees?
FEE-HELP is a loan given to eligible full-fee paying higher education students to help pay part or all of their tuition fees. The Commonwealth Government pays the amount of the loan directly to Swinburne.
Entry requirements
How to apply
Find out more about how to apply.
Note: Students applying for this course for the HE Block 1 intake will commence studying with ENT60009 - Opportunity Discovery, Creativity and Design. All other units will be scheduled on or after the commencement of Semester 1.