How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- 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.
- 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.
This Level 6 Diploma in Strategic Ports and Shipping Management is a vocationally-related qualification. It is for those working in ports and shipping who require strategic management knowledge. The qualification covers business management, human resources, and freight management.
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.
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.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Strategic Business Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
International Logistics Coordinator
This work can lead to roles such as Senior International Distribution Specialist or Lead International Distribution Planner, taking on more complex projects and planning.
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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 · your what-if tutor Illustration - 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.
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. Learners will analyse business positioning and competitive advantage factors.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for SFEDI Awards Level 6 Diploma in Strategic Ports and Shipping Management (IoSCM)
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards.
- Strategic Business Management
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Strategic International Freight Management
- Strategic Inventory Management
- Strategic Leadership and Management Performance
- Strategic Logistics Management
and 7 more in the full unit list below.
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