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How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards.

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01What it is

The Level 6 Diploma in Strategic Procurement Management is geared towards learners aiming to enhance their understanding of strategic procurement within business management. The qualification encompasses strategic business and human resource management. It also explores international freight, inventory, and logistics management within the supply chain.

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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards. It does the teaching and the mapping. SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Strategic Business Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
It teaches you to evaluate business operations within internal and external environments, understand marketing systems, interpret financial documentation, and comprehend change management processes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate how a business operates within its internal and external environment
  • Understand how a business operates a marketing system
  • Interpret the information contained within financial documentation
  • Understand the processes involved in change management
Strategic Human Resource Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll understand the responsibilities of Human Resource Management (HRM), including process development, performance management, employer-employee relationships, and reward management within organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the responsibilities of Human Resource Management (HRM)
  • Understand how HRM develops processes and practices
  • Understand the role of HRM in performance management
  • Understand how to manage employer-employee relationships
  • Understand the need for effective reward management
Strategic International Freight Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit covers the role of freight management in supply chains, the contribution of ISO containers to international trade, legislative requirements for freight movement, and the benefits of using Third Party Logistics and freight forwarders.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of freight management in Supply Chains
  • Understand the contribution of the ISO Container to International Trade
  • Analyse the legislative requirements for the International Movement of Freight ● Understand the benefits of using Third Party Logistics (3PLs) and Freight Forwarders
Strategic Inventory Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit covers the strategic role of inventory management in achieving business objectives, emphasising the impact of inventory costs on performance. You'll understand how to identify and manage order levels and apply inventory control methods effectively within a business context.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the strategic role of inventory management in meeting business objectives
  • Understand the significance of inventory cost on business performance
  • Understand how a business identifies and manages order levels
  • Apply inventory control methods within a business
Strategic Leadership and Management Performance Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit examines how organisational culture, leadership, and management techniques influence performance. You'll explore factors affecting change and risk management and develop skills to support the implementation of management activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how culture, leadership, and management techniques influence organisational performance
  • Understand the main factors affecting change management
  • Understand risk management and how it impacts organisations
  • Support the implementation of management activities
Strategic Logistics Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll explore the strategic and physical requirements of logistics management, including setting up operations and rationalising processes. The unit also covers evaluating transport modes and the role of technology in improving logistics performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand strategic requirements of logistics management
  • Understand the physical requirements of setting up a logistics operation
  • Understand methods for rationalising logistics operations
  • Evaluate the benefits of utilising different transport modes
  • Understand how technology improves logistics operations
  • Understand the risks associated with logistics operations
Strategic Maritime Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit explores strategic maritime management within globalisation, focusing on the significance of shipping, agile port operations, port efficiency, and containerised shipping benefits. You'll analyse international trade patterns and shipping market differences.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the significance of shipping within the context of globalisation
  • Understand the value of operating an agile port
  • Understand the purpose of Port Efficiency
  • Understand the benefits of a containerised shipping operation
Strategic Operations Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll study strategic operations management, including operational change, capacity management, scheduling, planning, and operations strategy. The unit also emphasises the importance of quality management within operational contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand operational change management
  • Understand Capacity Management
  • Understand the role of scheduling and planning in operations management
  • Understand operations strategy
  • Understand the importance of quality management
Strategic Procurement Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit covers the development and implementation of strategic procurement management. You'll analyse procurement contracts, assess procurement strategy effectiveness, and evaluate long-term strategic sourcing relationships within organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand procurement strategy
  • Understand the role of procurement strategy in achieving supply chain objectives
  • Understand how to select effective procurement methods
Strategic Production Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit provides knowledge of strategic production management, focusing on facility location, layout, and productivity. You'll examine product design, production strategy, forecasting, planning, scheduling, and the objectives of purchasing and inventory management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the requirements of location, layout, and productivity of manufacturing
  • Understand product design and production strategy
  • Understand forecasting, planning, and scheduling of production
  • Understand the objectives of purchasing and inventory management
Strategic Quality Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll gain an understanding of quality concepts and the planning and implementation of Quality Management Systems (QMS). The unit also covers Total Quality Management (TQM) applications and the benefits of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the fundamental concept of Quality
  • Plan the implementation of a Quality Management System (QMS) within an organisation
  • Understand the application of Total Quality Management (TQM) within an organisation
  • Understand the benefits of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) for an organisation
Strategic Supply Chain Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit provides an understanding of strategic supply chain management, focusing on the elements that contribute to a successful supply chain. You'll evaluate supply chain efficiency, the role of 3PL and 4PL models, and identify challenges and improvement measures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand what makes a supply chain successful
  • Understand how a supply chain meets the strategic objectives of an organisation
  • Understand the value of Third-Party Logistics (3PL) and Fourth-Party Logistics (4PL) models to the supply chain
  • Identify challenges and improvement measures within a business's supply chain
  • Understand the developments in Information Technology (IT) and their impact on the supply chain
Strategic Warehouse Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll explore key warehouse processes, policies, and procedures, evaluating the impact of warehouse layout and location on organisational efficiency and customer satisfaction. The unit also covers the role of outsourcing logistics services.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand key warehouse processes, policies, and procedures
  • Evaluate the benefits of warehouse layout on organisational efficiency
  • Understand the significance of warehouse location in meeting customer requirements
  • Understand the need for outsourcing Logistics Services
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Apply quality standards to support relationship management in procurement and supply

    Standard
04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 14 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

International Purchasing Coordinator

This work can lead into logistics management or wider supply chain roles. It can also lead to procurement management, overseeing category strategy and supplier relationships.

See the whole journey
05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 6 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Strategic Business ManagementStrategic Human Resource ManagementStrategic International Freight ManagementStrategic Inventory ManagementStrategic Leadership and Management PerformanceStrategic Logistics ManagementStrategic Maritime ManagementStrategic Operations Management

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Strategic Human Resource Management” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Strategic Human Resource Management” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Strategic Quality Management” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Strategic Business Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Strategic Business Management, one of this qualification's own units.

Strategic Business Management Level 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit enables learners to evaluate business operations within internal and external environments, understand marketing systems, interpret financial documentation, and comprehend change management processes.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for SFEDI Awards Level 6 Diploma in Strategic Procurement Management (IoSCM)

13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards.

  1. Strategic Business Management
  2. Strategic Human Resource Management
  3. Strategic International Freight Management
  4. Strategic Inventory Management
  5. Strategic Leadership and Management Performance
  6. Strategic Logistics Management

and 7 more in the full unit list below.

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.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

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