MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management
www. Prof. Sarah Dixon Dean, International Business School Suzhou Welcome to International Business School Suzhou at Xi an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (IBSS). Our MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management programme is designed to give you a life-changing international experience from the hub of China s commercial and industrial powerhouse. We are excited to start our MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management programme. A company s operations and supply chain management capabilities are essential to its business success. It touches major issues, including the growth of multinational corporations and strategic partnership, global expansion, sourcing and environmental concerns. Each of these issues dramatically affects corporate strategy and a company s bottom line. Because of these emerging trends, operations and supply chain management are one of the most critical business disciplines in the world today. Our School is based on strong principles of integrity, internationalism, inspiration and innovation, which together ensure that we have a positive impact on society through our teaching, research and business engagement. Our programme draws on leading international faculty and senior business practitioners to equip you for success in the global business arena. Our superb location in the heart of Suzhou Industrial Park, close to other major commercial centres such as Shanghai and Wuxi, provides an inspirational setting for our programme. Take a look at our programme. 1 Prof. Youmin Xi Executive President of XJTLU Xi an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) is a new international university founded by Xi an Jiaotong University, China, and the University of Liverpool, UK, as a joint venture. As an independent Sino-British university, it captures the essence of both prestigious parent universities and is the first and only one of its kind approved by the Ministry of Education in China, offering undergraduate degree programmes in the fields of science, engineering, and management, among others, and awarding both its own Chinese degree and the University of Liverpool degree. In May 2012, XJTLU received approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education to launch postgraduate programmes at the masters and doctoral levels in collaboration with the University of Liverpool. We live in a complex and quickly changing world characterised by rapidly-spreading knowledge and increasing globalisation. XJTLU is fortunate to have been founded at a time of innovation and challenge. The University is committed to the improvement of higher education and the exploration of new models for higher education. It aims to become a research-led international university in China and a Chinese university internationally recognised for its unique features by capitalising on the advantages of its unique model and its global education resources. Since May 2006, when the University was founded, XJTLU has won wide recognition for its highly internationalised environment, advanced educational conceptions and high-quality talent cultivation, and has been awarded the titles of Model Sino-Foreign University and Pioneer of Higher Education Reform in China. XJTLU regards business education as an important way to improve quality of life and global development, and to provide excellent services for both global and local societies. The establishment of International Business School Suzhou at XJTLU is a milestone in XJTLU s journey to become a global player.
2 International Business School Suzhou www. 3 Why MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management at IBSS? The MSc in Operations and Supply Chain Management from IBSS touches upon all aspects of effective operations and supply chain management in a highly competitive global marketplace. Suzhou s dynamic and energetic atmosphere and unique blend of the contemporary with the ancient create a truly unforgettable environment. Here are some key facts about Suzhou Industrial Park: GDP: US$170bn (2012) GDP per capita: US$11,000 Foreign Direct Investment: US$20.65bn Currency: Yuan (Renminbi) Population: 12 million (entire Suzhou region) The programme looks at how successful operations and supply chain management can shape the sales and profit ambition of a business. You will gain essential skills to become operations, logistics or supply chain strategists of the future. Combining XJTLU s growing reputation, IBSS dynamic innovative international expertise, intensive collaboration with the business community and our proximity to the Yangtze River Delta region, the programme is unique by virtue of being one of the few English language Masters programme of its type in China. Operations and supply chains are essential to competitive performance. Opportunities are provided for participants of the programme to analyse and examine the most up-to-date developments in operations and supply chain practice through a series of industrial lectures and bestpractice industry visits. Programme graduates will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to reach senior managerial positions and become the operations, logistics and supply chain management strategists of the future. The programme is designed for several types of students: Graduates in management, engineering or science who wish to move to the area of Supply Chain and Operations Management to improve employment prospects. Practicing operations and supply chain professionals who wish to update or expand their knowledge of the area and its potential benefit to their businesses. Graduates, managers and professionals working in other business areas and who need or have a desire to appreciate the strategic and business implications of contemporary operations and supply chain management. A UK Degree of Guaranteed Quality While studying in Suzhou, you will have the chance to obtain a UK University of Liverpool MSc degree which is fully recognised by the Chinese Ministry of Education. The University of Liverpool has AACSB accreditation which guarantees the highest quality standards. In addition the degree comes under the UK Quality Assurance Association. Examples of a typical career path can be found from our graduates of the MSc in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Liverpool. They are now working for companies like Accenture, Airbus UK, Caterpillar, Daimler Chrysler, Deloitte Consultants, Diageo, Ford Motor Company, GE, Maersk, Unilever, Unipart, United Utilities, Westinghouse and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Suzhou Industrial Park & Suzhou International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), located in the heart of Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), is ideally situated to engage with local and international enterprises. Among its neighbours in SIP are onefifth of the Fortune 500 companies as well as over 4,700 foreign enterprises and 18,000 domestic enterprises, making it one of the most electrifying centres of business activity anywhere. The expertise found in SIP stresses high-technology applications, including (among others) aviation and aerospace, biotechnology, communications and information technologies, nanotechnology, energy sources and environmental protection. Our interactions with these businesses help contribute to the energy and vitality of IBSS and its Operations and Supply Chain Management programme. Suzhou is also linked by a short high-speed train journey to major business, financial and cultural centres such as Shanghai and Wuxi, enabling solid relationships with enterprises and organisations in these cities as well.
4 International Business School Suzhou www. 5 Throughout the programme participants will benefit from a seamless blend of academic best practice with real life examples from all around the world. The MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management Programme The programme focuses on the factors that are necessary for effective operations and supply management in today s global and highly competitive markets. It demonstrates how successful operations performance shapes and influences the sales of a business. The curriculum enables students to acquire knowledge and an understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of operations and supply chain management. Students will achieve the following learning outcomes: Understand the requirements of successful operations and supply chain practice in modern business, with an emphasis on the Chinese context Identify and apply a range of operations management initiatives and techniques relevant to the development of an operations strategy Manage operations, purchasing and logistics as a strategic resource Apply the models, processes and tools used to analyse, design and implement operations and supply chain management solutions Develop a thorough understanding of the components of supply chains, the material and information flow interactions between them and the analytical and management processes that facilitate successful supply chain performance Understand and apply tools and techniques relevant to the optimisation of supply chains Apply benchmarking and comparative performance techniques The programme is delivered over 18 months full-time or 36 months part-time combining a number of different delivery and assessment modes, such as lectures, tutorials, seminars and laboratory classes. Module teaching will be supplemented with industry visits and guest speakers. The modules of the programme, combining cutting edge operations and supply chain theories with general business best practice, are: Supply Chain Operations Management Accounting and Financial Management Strategic Operations Management Logistics and Physical Distribution Lean Thinking Marketing Management Strategic Purchasing Management Strategic Business Analysis Note: All modules are taught in English. For Full-Time and Part-Time Students The programme has been designed for both the full-time student and the working professional who wants to study outside working hours. For full-time students the project dissertation period follows the second semester examination, and lasts for 6 months. For part-time students the dissertation is scheduled for the third year of studies. Lectures and tutorials are organised outside office hours, in order to fully accommodate the schedule of the working professional. During the dissertation stage, IBSS offers students the possibility for an exchange with University of Liverpool s Operations and Supply Chain Management programme. The exchange possibilities are valid both for the University of Liverpool and XJTLU students. The final project may also be combined with an internship for full-time students.
6 International Business School Suzhou www. 7 One with the Business World The MSc in Operations and Supply Chain Management Programme is developed and continuously updated in close collaboration with the local and international Operations and Supply Chain community. Faculty Members IBSS boasts approximately sixty academic faculty members, among which several specialising in Operations and Supply Chain Management. During your studies, there is the opportunity to engage with and learn from leading organisations, thanks to our extensive links with businesses and public sector services, locally and across the world. These links are highly productive partnerships which involve pioneering research, technological advances in product and service development, innovative approaches to learning and shared facilities. All of this provides our postgraduate students with exciting opportunities for placements, mentoring, involvement in live projects and networking, to name just a few of the benefits. Key Partners ISM China was founded in 2009. It is part of ISM (Institute for Supply Management) worldwide, the world largest supply management NGO. ISM has more than 100 years of history and maintains the famous PMI (Purchasing Manager Index). ISM China members are mostly Vice Presidents, Directors and Managers in the supply chain area, sourcing area and logistic area. It has organisation in Suzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen with overall 3,000 active members in China. Lean Council is an academic organisation to research lean manufacturing. Members are general managers, factory directors and director of operations from enterprises. Lean Council is focused on the experience sharing about lean manufacturing. The Lean Council organises plant visits, seminars, training and aims to enhance communication among enterprises and helps the enterprises to increase their lean management skills, thereby to advance their production efficiency improvement, reduce waste and to achieve lean result. Supply Chain Management Club is formed by Yangtze Delta region Foreign-invest enterprise supply chain professionals. The club was established in 2005. Membership quantity increased from the original 20 members to thousands and now it has become one of the largest supply chain organisations in the East of China. Suzhou Key Laboratory for Supply Chain Technology works closely with the MSc in Supply Chain and Management programme. Approved by Suzhou Science and Technology Bureau in 2008, the Key Lab for Supply Chain Technology is based in XJTLU, Suzhou Industrial Park. Benefiting from the support of XJTLU and the University of Liverpool, the Lab looks at developing and managing supply chain technology that is beneficial to partner organisations in terms of resource saving including time and money, through improved efficiency and effectiveness of processes and/or technology. The aim is to develop and transfer the knowledge of new operations, purchasing and logistics technologies to partner organisations. The Agility and Supply Chain Management Centre of the University of Liverpool Management School has as its mission to assist small businesses to develop and grow using the techniques and tools of agility. The objective of agility is to ensure that you can thrive in environments characterised by change without any compromise to cost or quality. For over nine years the agility centre has been implementing lean and agile tools and approaches to improve business operations. IBSS s Operations and Supply Chain Management programme is also supported by Xi an Jiaotong-Liverpool University s world-class infrastructure, designed to meet the needs of students who seek to bridge Chinese and Western culture. The XJTLU Library boasts an extensive collection of management and business-related books and periodicals, in addition to many more digital resources including databases, journals, e-books, conference papers and other materials in both English and Chinese. The digital collection is fully accessible online, so wherever you may be, the library is with you. The Language Centre at XJTLU provides intensive and comprehensive language instruction in both English and Chinese, along with study skills support to students who need assistance. With over 130 teaching staff members, the Centre aims to ensure that all students acquire the study skills and English language proficiency required to complete a UK degree. In addition, it offers international students intensive Chinese language modules as well as an introduction to Chinese culture. Dr Zheng Liu Dr Lixian Qian Ewout van der Schaft Dr Hossam S Ismail In addition, we draw on experts from local and global industries to supplement our teaching with guest lectures and special modules unique to the operations and supply chain management industry. Meet Some of our Academic Faculty Members Dr Zheng Liu gained her PhD at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge with the research topic The Development of Inter-firm Trust in Different National Culture Contexts: cases from the animation game industry. Before that, she completed her MPhil degree in Industrial Systems, Manufacture and Management at the University of Cambridge, and BEng degree in Automation at Tsinghua University, China. Dr Liu teaches Principles of Operations, Operations Management: tools and techniques and Managing across Borders. Her research interests include: cross-culture management, supply chain and operations, and creative industry. Dr Lixian Qian graduated from Lancaster University (UK) in 2012 with a PhD degree in Management Science (Marketing Analytics). He completed his BSc and Master s degree in Management Science with distinctions from Fudan University. Prior to his fully-funded PhD study, he had five years working experience in supply chain planning and management in Intel Corporation and Emersion Process Management Co. He achieved the Certificate of Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) offered by the American Operation Management Association (APICS) in 2008. His research scope includes demand and market analytics and supply chain, marketing interface. He taught Operation Management, Business Statistics and Managerial Decision Making Techniques at Lancaster University Management School. Now he teaches Fundamentals of Marketing, Consumer Behaviour and Business Essentials at IBSS. Ewout van der Schaft is Associate Professor of Practice at IBSS, XJTLU University. Previously, from 2008-2013, Ewout served as Dean Executive Education at the Aegis School Business in Mumbai (India) and as Assistant Dean at the CEU Business School in Budapest (Hungary). Ewout obtained extensive international experience from senior business roles all around Europe. From 1995 till 2008, Ewout worked in executive positions for two leading European Telecommunications incumbents, Czech Telecom and Bulgarian Telecom. After having started in the field of Human Resources, he led the transformation of Czech Telecom and the start-up of their B2B electronic marketplace. In his last position, as Executive Director Business Development, he was responsible for partner management, strategic alliances and acquisitions. As Head of the PMO in Bulgarian Telecom, he prepared the company for their sell off by leading 24 key transformation projects. Ewout started his international career for Philip Morris in The Netherlands. Ewout holds an MBA of the Katz Graduate school of Business Pittsburgh, and graduated as a Master of Public Administration at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Dr Hossam S Ismail BSc, PhD, CEng (visiting Faculty University of Liverpool) Hossam is Director of the Agility & Supply Chain Management Centre. The centre is a key research and business support unit at the University of Liverpool Management School with a team of eight researchers and business support analysts. His research and business interests include strategic and operational agility, operations management, manufacturing systems, mass customisation, manufacturing informatics and supply chain management. He has published in various international journals and conferences and has instigated and worked on a number of national and European funded research projects. Hossam also has 25 years expertise in developing simulation models for optimising manufacturing and logistics systems. Building on a new framework and road map for implementing agility that he developed, Hossam launched the Agility Centre in 2000. The centre has worked with over 180 companies in various manufacturing sectors such as aerospace, automotive, food, general engineering and maritime. The centre has persistently exceeded its targets and has been successful in receiving continued Regional European funding of up to 2.2 million since its doors were first opened. Over the past 15 years he also has managed 18 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships with UK companies. These are funded by the UK Technology and Strategy Board and the participating companies to the tune of 120k each. His role in these projects is to supervise associates who are placed within the companies for two years to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from the university to the company. In addition to supporting MSc project in companies his teaching covered manufacturing systems, operations management, operations modelling and simulation, new product introduction and e-business systems.
8 International Business School Suzhou www. 9 Rich Alumni Networks and Opportunities When you graduate from IBSS s MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management programme, you will not only join the growing network of XJTLU alumni, but you will also be a member of the University of Liverpool alumni association as a graduate of the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS). Your alumni affiliations will offer tremendous benefits. As IBSS and ULMS alumni, you can expand your personal network by connecting with more than 100,000 University of Liverpool alumni in over 130 countries. You can also take advantage of a range of opportunities for personal and professional development such as free access to ULMS s vast library resources and facilities and discounts on many management journals and databases. You will also be able to participate in ULMS, XJTLU and IBSS alumni events, including social networking get-togethers and online professional development webinars. In addition, IBSS s MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management programme offers a unique education drawing on both Chinese and English business models and issues. Managers and leaders who can bridge these paradigms offer invaluable skills to organisations in the private, the public and the not-for-profit sectors. As IBSS alumni, you will benefit from an exceptionally wide range of opportunities. Our Founding Universities Xi an Jiaotong University, based in Xi an, Shaanxi, was established in 1896 in Shanghai, moving to Xi an in 1956; in 1959, the University was officially named Xi an Jiaotong University. Today Xi an Jiaotong University has grown into one of the most prestigious universities in China. Further development of the University has been prioritised by the State of Council in the national 211 Project and 985 Project. The University of Liverpool, based in Liverpool, England, was founded in 1881 and is one of the UK s leading universities. It is a member of the Russell Group of research intensive universities, renowned for its teaching and research excellence, world-class departments and schools, and outstanding student support. The University is associated with eight Nobel Prize Winners. Admissions and Key Information Key Information Full-time Programme Format Programme length: 18 months Location: Suzhou, China Language of instruction: English Degree awarded: University of Liverpool, Master of Science (MSc) Application deadline: 30th June (International applicants) 31st July (Chinese nationals) Intake: September Tuition fee: RMB 120,000 Website: Enquiries: E: mscosc@xjtlu.edu.cn Key Information Part-time Programme Format Programme length: 36 months Location: Suzhou, China Language of instruction: English Degree awarded: University of Liverpool, Master of Science (MSc) Application deadline: 30th November (International applicants) 31st December (Chinese nationals) Intake: February Tuition fee: RMB 120,000 Website: Enquiries: E: mscosc@xjtlu.edu.cn Admissions Criteria The candidate may have a Bachelor Degree in any discipline and with demonstrated proficiency in English. If English is not your first language, but you are following a full-time degree level programme delivered wholly in English, you will normally be exempt from the English language requirements. If you have not studied at degree level in English, you will need to provide evidence of your level of proficiency in the English language. You should normally possess (or be planning to complete) one of the following qualifications: IELTS: 6.5 with minimum of 6.0 in each of the 4 language skills. TOEFL ibt: 88. Individual cases will be considered on their own merits. You may be required to attend interviews or tests to further demonstrate English proficiency. Application Process The application form is available online. http://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/admissions/postgraduate/mastersdegree/programmesmaster-degree.html During the application process, applicants will also need to provide: Degree Certificate and Transcripts (in English) Certificate of Proficiency in English (such as IELTS or TOEFL) Personal Statement Two Recommendation Letters If accepted, the candidate receives an official letter of admission. We encourage candidates to initiate the process by submitting their application as soon as possible. The selection process is based both on the candidate profile and the application arrival date, which guarantees a priority position for early-bird applicants. For full details of modules, faculty members, and the application process, please refer to our website:
学 贯 中 西 兼 善 天 下 Combining East and West Creating a better world Xi an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is a truly unique institution, jointly founded by Xi an Jiaotong University and the University of Liverpool. It is the largest international collaborative university in China and the only one where undergraduate students receive two degrees, from the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE) and from the University of Liverpool. Postgraduate students receive an MSc degree from the University of Liverpool, which is recognised by the MoE. The University is independent but draws for guidance and experience upon its two parent universities, both of which are highly respected international pioneers. International Business School Suzhou (IBSS) at Xi an Jiaotong-Liverpool University BA/BB Building, Xi an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 111 Ren ai Road, Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China, 215123 Tel: +86 (0)512 8816 1700 Fax: +86 (0)512 8816 1730 Email: mscosc@xjtlu.edu.cn