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OTHM Qualifications · RQF Level 6

OTHM Qualifications Level 6 Vocationally-Related Qualification in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits120
  • Guided learning480 hours
  • Units in this qualification6

Awarded by OTHM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

The OTHM Level 6 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management qualification is designed to provide learners with the knowledge and skills required by a middle or senior manager in managing organizational logistics and supply chain.

These are the units OTHM Qualifications 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.

Entrepreneurship DevelopmentReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
In this unit, you'll gain an understanding about entrepreneurship development and entrepreneurship in business. They will explore the behaviour and roles of an entrepreneur and consider factors faced by entrepreneurs in setting up their venture.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand entrepreneurship in business.
  • Understand the promotion of a venture in business.
  • Understand entrepreneurial behaviour in business.
  • Understand the role of the entrepreneur in business.
Global Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit aims to allow the student to develop an appreciation of the issues to be addressed when dealing with the complexities of managing the global sourcing of materials and components, the globalisation of manufacturing operations, and meeting the needs of the global customer.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the impact of globalisation on firms’ logistics and supply chain.
  • Understand the physical distribution channels of logistics and supply chain.
  • Understand global supply chain and marketing strategies in logistics and supply chain management.
  • Understand the Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) model.
International Logistics ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit focuses on the strategic, value-adding role of logistics in supply networks. The unit aims to provide learners with an understanding of all key areas within logistics from an international perspective.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the logistics function in international logistics management.
  • Understand logistics strategies in international logistics management.
  • Understand the tools and techniques in managing logistics in international logistics management.
  • Understand the role of planning and designing of the logistics function in international logistics management.
Project ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
The aim of this module is to familiarise the learners with the various aspects of projects and guidelines relevant to project planning, analysis, financing, selection, implementation and review.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand project management in business management.
  • Understand project analysis in business management.
  • Understand the financing of projects in business management.
  • Understand project evaluation and control in business management.
Strategic ProcurementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit aims to provide learners with an understanding of how procurement strategy is developed in business. The unit will focus on best practices in strategic procurement in business, the contribution of purchasing (strategic procurement) to supply chain management, strategic procurement and management in procurement models and procurement strategies used in business management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand best practices in strategic procurement in business.
  • Understand the contribution of purchasing (strategic procurement) to supply chain management.
  • Understand strategic procurement and management in procurement models.
  • Understand procurement strategies used in business management.
Supply Chain Planning and ControlReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit aims to introduce learners to the various elements that comprise the field of supply chain planning and control. The unit also aims to give students an understanding of the role of the planning and control within an organisation and the outward impact this has on aspects of the supply chain.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand supply chain planning and control in business management.
  • Understand capacity management in supply chain planning and control in business.
  • Understand the process of managing inventory in business management.
  • Understand the management of production across the supply chain in business management.

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 6 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.

Entrepreneurship DevelopmentGlobal Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementInternational Logistics ManagementProject ManagementStrategic ProcurementSupply Chain Planning and Control

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 this connects

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.

Where this can lead

International Logistics Specialist

Your journey here starts with mastering the day-to-day, but the potential for growth is massive. We're looking for someone who sees this as more than just a job; it's a chance to become a true expert in a critical global function. We'll support you, challenge you, and help you build a fantastic career.

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Opens the roleInternational Logistics SpecialistOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Opens the roleGlobal Head of LogisticsOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleLogistics Coordinator, InternationalOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleGlobal Logistics SpecialistOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 1 near-identical record folded inSee the role →Opens the roleInternational Logistics ManagerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route into · 4 near-identical records folded inSee the role →Opens the roleGlobal Logistics ManagerOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

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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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Entrepreneurship DevelopmentLevel 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
International Logistics SpecialistGlobal Head of LogisticsLogistics Coordinator, InternationalGlobal Logistics SpecialistInternational Logistics ManagerGlobal Logistics Manager

In this unit, learners will gain an understanding about entrepreneurship development and entrepreneurship in business. They will explore the behaviour and roles of an entrepreneur and consider factors faced by entrepreneurs in setting up their venture.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for OTHM Qualifications Level 6 Vocationally-Related Qualification in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.

  1. Entrepreneurship Development
  2. Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  3. International Logistics Management
  4. Project Management
  5. Strategic Procurement
  6. Supply Chain Planning and Control
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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, free

No 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.