Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Supply Chain Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits42
- Guided learning218 hours
- Units in this qualification31
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Apply improvements to the supply chainReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to apply improvements to the supply chain
- Obtain information on the improvements being introduced to the supply chain
Arrange the transportation of goods using multiple transport modesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the criteria for arranging transportation of goods using multiple modes of transport.
- Arrange the transporting of goods using multiple modes of transport.
- Identify any problems that can occur when arranging the transportation of goods using multiple modes of transport.
Build and manage teams in logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how build and mange teams in logistics operations
- Build and manage teams
Build own organisation’s understanding of its market and customers in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to build own organisation’s understanding of its market and customers in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Build own organisation’s understanding of its market and customers in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Control supplies at storage locations and facilitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to control supplies at storage locations and facilities
- Control supplies at storage locations and facilities
Develop productive working relationships with colleagues in logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues in logistics operations
- Develop productive working relationships in logistics operations
Encourage innovation in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to encourage innovation in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Encourage innovation in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Ensure an effective organisational approach to health, safety and security in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to ensure an effective organisational approach to health safety and security in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Ensure an effective organisational approach to health, safety and security in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in logistics operations
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements
Establish strategic relationships within the supply chainReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand strategic relationships within the supply chain
- Establish strategic relationships within the supply chain
Help team members address problems affecting their performance in logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Help team members address problems affecting their performance
- Help team members address problems affecting their performance in logistics operations
Implement change in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to implement change in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Implement change in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Manage a budget in supply chain management or a logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage a budget in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage a budget in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Manage a project in the supply chain or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage a project
- Manage the project
Manage business processes in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage business processes in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage business processes in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Manage contracts in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage contracts in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage contracts in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Manage finance for own area of responsibility in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage finance for own area of responsibility in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage finance in own area of responsibility in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Manage risk in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage risk in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Manage risk across the organisation in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Manage your own professional development in logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage own professional development in logistics operations
- Manage own professional development in logistics operations
Map the logistics environment in which own organisation operatesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to map the logistics environment in which own organisation operates
- Map the logistics environment in which own organisation operates
Minimise the environmental impact of logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Minimise the environmental impact of logistics operations
- Minimise the environmental impact of logistics operations
Optimise the use of logistics resourcesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Optimise the use of logistics resources
- Optimise the use of logistics resources
Plan change in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan change in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Plan change in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Plan the workforce in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan the workforce in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Plan the workforce in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Procure supplies or services in the supply chain or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to procure supplies or services in the supply chain or in a logistics operation
- Procure supplies or services in the supply chain or a logistics operation
Provide leadership for your team in logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Provide leadership for own team in logistics operations
- Provide leadership in own team in logistics operations
Provide leadership in own area of responsibility in supply chain management or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to provide leadership in own area of responsibility in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Provide leadership in own area of responsibility in supply chain management or a logistics operation
Recruit, select and keep colleagues in logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Recruit, select and keep colleagues in logistics operations
- Recruit, select and keep colleagues in logistics operations
Respond to problems in logistics operationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Respond to problems in logistics operations
- Be able respond to problems in logistics operations
Schedule logistics operations to meet customers requirementsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Schedule logistics operations to meet customer requirements.
- Schedule logistics operations to meet customer requirements.
Select suppliers in the supply chain or a logistics operationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to select suppliers
- Select suppliers
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Apply Improvements to the Supply Chain
- Contract with other organisations
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements
- Establish Strategic Relationships Within the Supply Chain
- Interpret and comply with a contract for logistics services
- Introduce Improvements to the Supply Chain
- Manage compliance and regulatory requirements with other countries in logistics operations
- Manage projects to develop the supply chain
Where this can lead
Associate 3PL Coordinator
Your journey starts here, learning the foundational elements of how we work with our 3PL partners. With dedication and a willingness to learn, there are many exciting paths you can take within Zavmo and the wider logistics industry. We're excited to see where you go!
See the whole journey →Showing 2 roles, drawn from 3 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Supply Chain Management
31 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Apply improvements to the supply chain
- Arrange the transportation of goods using multiple transport modes
- Build and manage teams in logistics operations
- Build own organisation’s understanding of its market and customers in supply chain management or a logistics operation
- Control supplies at storage locations and facilities
- Develop productive working relationships with colleagues in logistics operations
and 25 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.