Bachelor of Business (Logistics and Supply Chain Management)

The Bachelor of Business (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) is designed to help to develop your knowledge and interest in contemporary issues central to the logistics and supply chain management industry.

This unique degree prepares you for this essential industry, providing you with sought-after knowledge, and both hard and soft skills to allow you to thrive in a challenging and rewarding career. Throughout your studies, you'll focus on developing end-to-end supply chain knowledge to deal with day-to-day and strategic supply chain issues.

RMIT's logistics and supply chain management degree covers topics to develop your knowledge and interest in contemporary issues central to the logistics and supply chain management industry.

Some fields of specialisation to consider for your future career include:

• e-commerce: working with technology, finance, supply chain, human resources and marketing teams to design an interface to enable ordering or sales
• lean-agile management, data analytics and operations management: allocating the right resources at the right time to the correct part of the supply chain
• agriculture or food supply chains: encompassing all aspects of growing an agricultural/food source and getting it 'from paddock to plate'
• closed-loop supply chains: also known as reverse-flow logistics, this covers activities such as product recalls, returns, repair, waste management at the end of a product's life cycle, and recycling
• procurement: roles have been commonplace in large industries and government departments for some time, however, jobs in private industry are increasing, particularly as consumers factor ethical sourcing into their buying decisions
• transport/distribution and warehouse management: third- and fourth-party logistics, freight logistics, optimisation of vehicle routing, warehouse management systems, last-mile delivery, city logistics, port management and international logistics.