SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards · RQF Level 5
SFEDI Awards Level 5 Diploma In Managing the Supply Chain (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits40
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards 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.
BusinessReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of strategic development in business
- Understand the importance of building and maintaining collabourative business relationships
- Understand how effective and efficient human resource management contributes to the achievement of organisational goals
- Understand the management of finance in business
- Understand how own country's current legislation impacts on business
- Understand marketing strategies in business
Customer ServiceReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of managing customer relationships
- Understand how to generate a customer focused culture and seamless service
- Understand how to assess, monitor and improve levels of customer satisfaction
- Understand the importance of managing customer complaints effectively
International Freight ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the discipline of air freight forwarding operations
- Understand the discipline of sea freight forwarding operations
- Understand the concept of an agile port
- Understand the discipline of multimodal transportation
International Trade ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the rules and regulations of international trade management in the context of an organisation's global strategy
- Understand the key features of a successful global strategy
- Understand the importance of international financial strategies
- Understand the risks associated with multi currency trading
InventoryReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of inventory management
- Understand the principles of the traditional fixed period and fixed quantity models of inventory control
- Understand the impact of inventory management on the supply chain
- Understand how modern inventory systems can improve the performance of stock systems
- Understand the importance of inventory management to minimise the stock level
LogisticsReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles behind the logistics requirements of a supply chain
- Understand how to schedule logistics operations to meet customers' needs
- Understand how to optimise the use of logistics operations
- Understand the range of transport modes and their usage within logistics operations
- Understand the use of technology within logistics operations
- Understand the importance of improving the quality of logistics operations
ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of leadership and management
- Understand how management decision making is informed by knowledge and information
- Understand the significance of managing and implementing change in organisations
- Understand the management role in establishing risk management process
- Understand how to develop an ability to be able to manage projects
Operations Management ProcessesReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of operations and operations management within business
- Understand the design of operations processes as well as the design of the products and services that organisations produce
- Understand the correlation between operations management and strategic planning
- Understand how operations improvement techniques could enhance competitive advantage in business
- Understand the key challenges for an organisation
Ports and Shipping ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of shipping and international trade
- Understand how business strategy in shipping contributes to growth
- Understand port operations and effective container terminal management
- Understand the concept of agile ports and the key characteristics
- Understand port development and the operating environment and evolution of a port
Production ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components of production planning and evaluate its function within a supply chain
- Understand the inter-relationships between production planning, sales planning and forecastine
- Understand the terminology associated with Master Scheduling and basic scheduling concepts
- Understand how manufacturing and control systems have developed historically
- Understand a variety of measures to improve production planning performance
Project ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles underpinning project management methodologies.
- Understand how to identify a suitable management project and provide a robust justification for its selection.
- Understand how to conduct thorough research and analyse relevant data to effectively fulfil the aims of a project.
- Understand the processes involved in monitoring, reviewing, and evaluating a project's progress and outcomes.
Purchasing ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key roles and focus of management within purchasing
- Understand the impact of legislation upon the purchasing function
- Understand the importance of building and sustaining collabourative working relationships with suppliers
- Understand how effective negotiation skills contribute to successful purchasing management
Quality ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to evaluate the range of quality management systems appropriate for use in business
- Understand the advantages of an organisation having a quality management system in place
- Understand the tools and techniques to manage quality
- Understand how to employ quality management tools and techniques to improve organisational performance
Road Freight ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of road transport within a supply chain
- Understand the importance of setting standards and performance measurements
- Understand the operational scheduling, quality of service and security methods associated with road transport
- Understand route planning conventions of road transport
- Understand the role of management and the qualities and skills required
- Understand how effective communication skills contribute to successful decision making
Supply ChainReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how a supply chain can gain competitive advantage from efficient management and control
- Understand the impact of physical and information flows on the integration and harmonisation within a supply chain
- Understand why supply chains may not always function correctly
- Understand how supply chain planning is achieved from a strategic and operational perspective
- Understand how modern technology has impacted the supply chain
Transport ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and purpose of transport planning
- Understand how historical developments and more recent trends in land use affect transport planning
- Understand how the principles of sustainability are applied to transport planning
- Understand the current trends and causes for transport demand
- Understand issues with the movement of freight
WarehousingReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need and role of developing an appropriate warehouse policy
- Understand the resource requirements of warehousing
- Understand the basic concept of inventory and develop an inventory strategy
- Understand the relevant legislation applicable to a warehouse
- Understand the importance of technology advancements in a warehouse within the supply chain
- Understand financial systems within a warehouse
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 5 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
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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.
- Develop and implement a management system to ensure compliance with the requirements of the operator’s licence for freight transport operations
- Develop, implement and maintain a quality system to control the distribution of medicinal products
- Manage costs and resources in logistics operations to meet customer requirements
- Manage projects to develop the supply chain
- Plan the storage of supplies in the supply chain
Where this can lead
Production Scheduling Manager
Your journey here starts with mastering the daily schedule, but it can lead to shaping the very operational strategy of our business. We're keen to invest in people who want to grow and make a real impact.
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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 SFEDI Awards Level 5 Diploma In Managing the Supply Chain (QCF)
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards.
- Business
- Customer Service
- International Freight Management
- International Trade Management
- Inventory
- Logistics
and 11 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.