OTHM Qualifications · RQF Level 5
OTHM Level 5 Diploma 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 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning600 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 objective of the OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management is intended to develop learners’ understanding of policy, management theory and practice in logistics and supply chain management. The qualification provides learners with an opportunity to engage with the challenges facing professionals and policy makers in their own country and provides knowledge that underpins the ability to work as an effective manager in the sector. Learners will develop and enhance knowledge and skills in the areas of business strategy, procurement, inventory management, risk assessment, supply chain globalisation, contract and financial management, and also learn about the factors which dominate how contemporary supply chains are managed. Successful completion of this qualification will allow learners to work in a variety of roles within logistics and supply chain management and to progress to further study.
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.
Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the impact of emerging technologies, such as automation and AI, on supply chain management (SCM) practices.
- Evaluate the environmental impact of supply chains and explore sustainable SCM strategies.
- Analyse the complexities of supply chain management (SCM) within a global economy, considering factors like international trade and regulations.
- Understand the methods and strategies for identifying, assessing, and managing risks within supply chains.
Contract and Financial ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the principles of contract management within the logistics sector.
- Describe the processes involved in effectively managing a contract in logistics.
- Outline the fundamentals of financial management in the context of logistics operations.
- Explain how finances are managed within a logistics organisation, including budgeting and cost control.
Global Context of Supply ChainsReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental concepts and drivers of globalisation.
- Analyse the impact of globalisation on the structure and operation of supply chains.
- Understand the key considerations and steps involved in establishing a global supply chain, including sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution.
- Understand the challenges and strategies for effectively managing a global supply chain, considering factors like cultural differences, logistics complexities, and risk management.
Principles and Concepts of StrategyReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the fundamental principles of business strategy.
- Analyse key business strategy theories and concepts.
- Evaluate a business’s micro and macro environment using appropriate tools and techniques.
- Assess a business’s strategic options, considering their potential impact and feasibility.
Principles and Concepts of Supply Chain ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundamental supply chain management (SCM) concepts and principles, including its scope and objectives.
- Understand the key components of a supply chain and their interrelationships.
- Understand supply chain management (SCM) flows, including the flow of information, materials, and finances.
- Understand the importance of efficient and effective supply chain flows.
- Understand the barriers to effective supply chain management (SCM), including internal and external factors.
- Understand the strategies for overcoming barriers to effective supply chain management.
- Understand the complexities of relationships in supply chains, including the different types of relationships.
- Understand the importance of building and maintaining strong relationships with supply chain partners.
- Understand the role of leadership in a supply chain, including the skills and qualities required.
- Understand the importance of effective leadership for supply chain success.
Procurement and Inventory ManagementReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles and concepts of procurement management.
- Analyse the relationship between procurement activities and the overall supply chain.
- Understand the fundamental principles and techniques of inventory management.
- Examine the relationship between effective inventory management and the efficiency of the supply chain.
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.
Where this can lead
Director of Contract Management, Business Process Outsourcing
Your journey as Director of Contract Management is a stepping stone to truly impactful leadership roles. Whether you choose to deepen your expertise in contracts or broaden your scope across the business, the foundation you build here will be invaluable. We're excited to see where you take your career.
See the whole journey →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
Learners will assess the impact of emerging technologies and sustainability issues on supply chain management. The unit also covers global supply chain complexities and risk management strategies to address contemporary challenges in SCM.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain Management
- Contract and Financial Management
- Global Context of Supply Chains
- Principles and Concepts of Strategy
- Principles and Concepts of Supply Chain Management
- Procurement and Inventory Management
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.