SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards · RQF Level 6
SFEDI Awards Level 6 Diploma In Supply Chain and Operations Strategy
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits40
- Guided learning48 hours
- Units in this qualification16
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
- Evaluate an organisations ability to operate within its internal and external environment
- Understand how an organisation operates a marketing system
- Understand and interpret information contained within financial documentation
- Analyse the processes involved in change management
Finance ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and interpret information contained within balance sheets, income statements and statements of cash flow
- Analyse the cost vs value of developing a project
- Understand the need for financial analysis and how it impacts short and long term business plans
- Evaluate the benefits of mergers and acquisitions in business
Human Resource ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the responsibilities of Human Resource Management (HRM) professionals within an organisation.
- Evaluate how HRM can develop processes and practices to aid business objectives and improve organisational performance.
- Analyse how HRM can aid performance management through effective strategies and techniques.
- Understand the need for, and methods available to, manage employment relationships effectively, including employee relations and conflict resolution.
- Understand the need for effective reward management systems and their impact on employee motivation and retention.
Humanitarian LogisticsReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the nature of an emergency situation
- Understand the supply of physical requirements of a humanitarian supply chain
- Understand how to evaluate and communicate risk to stakeholders within the humanitarian logistics relief effort
- Understand how IT may aid and improve humanitarian logistics processes
International Freight ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the strategic importance of creating an effective international supply chain
- Understand the value of operating a multimodal freight movement operation
- Analyse the legislative requirements of the international movement of freight
- Understand the alternatives to moving a company’s own and international freight
InventoryReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the strategic role of inventories in their support of business objectives
- Understand the significance of inventory cost on business performance
- Analyse how an organisation identifies and manages order levels
- Understand ways inventory control may be accomplished within an organisation
LogisticsReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key strategic requirements of logistics management
- Understand the physical requirements of setting up a logistic operation
- Evaluate the benefits of the utilisation of different transport modes
- Understand methods of rationalising logistic operations
- Evaluate how technology may improve logistic operations
- Understand the risks associated with logistic operations
ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of management activities
- Understand how leadership and management techniques impact organisational performance
- Understand risk management and how it impacts organisations
- Identify organisational cultures
- Understand the main factors impacting time management
Operations ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of managing operations and people
- Understand what is meant by operational strategy
- Analyse the processes involved in managing people and change in the work place
- Understand methods of managing capacity
- Understand methods of operational scheduling and process management
- Evaluate the need for managing quality
Ports and Shipping ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of shipping within the context of globalisation
- Evaluate the value of operating and agile ports
- Analyse the resource requirements of a port operation
- Evaluate the benefits of a containerised shipping operation
Production ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Examine production in relation to the functions of a business
- Understand the requirement of product design and production strategy
- Understand the requirements of location, layout and productivity of manufacturing
- Analyse the requirements for effective forecasting, planning and scheduling of production
- Understand the objectives of purchasing and inventory management
Purchasing ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purchasing environment and how to scan it to fulfil organisational requirements
- Understand how an organisation may determine an appropriate purchasing strategy
- Understand the importance of IT in the purchasing process
- Evaluate the requirements of supplier assessment and performance rating
- Analyse the requirement to provide support tools for the purchasing process
Quality ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the characteristics of quality
- Understand how to implement a quality management system
- Understand how a total quality management system may be applied to an organisation
- Understand how the application of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model can aid a business
Supply Chain ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what makes an effective supply chain
- Assess how a supply chain may meet the strategic objectives of an organisation
- Evaluate the value of 3PL and 4PL to the supply chain
- Analyse the causes of supply chain failures and how processes may be improved
- Understand the developments in information technology and their impact on the supply chain
Transport Management PlanningReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand need for transport planning as a requirement of economic development
- Identify the requirements of transport within a supply chain infrastructure
- Analyse methods of trip distribution modelling
- Evaluate the benefits of an effective transport policy
- Evaluate the international movement of freight
WarehousingReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the ability of a warehouse to fulfil the requirements of business
- Evaluate the benefits of warehouse layout to fulfil specific business needs
- Analyse the important considerations of deciding warehouse location in respect of fulfilling customer needs
- Understand the benefits of employing the services of 3rd party distributors
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Every credit is a stamp you keep
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Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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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.
- Carry out business change feasibility assessments
- Commission and implement projects to develop systems technology to improve the efficiency of procurement and supply
- Develop a Supply Chain Strategy for the Organisation
- Develop and promote the use of systems technology to improve the efficiency of procurement and supply
- Manage costs and resources in logistics operations to meet customer requirements
- SfL86 Develop Operational Relationships within the Supply Chain
- Supporting logistics operations in an engineering manufacturing environment
- Use technology systems for procurement and supply
Where this can lead
Humanitarian Supply Chain Manager
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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 6 Diploma In Supply Chain and Operations Strategy
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards.
- Business
- Finance Management
- Human Resource Management
- Humanitarian Logistics
- International Freight Management
- Inventory
and 10 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.
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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
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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.
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