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  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 7 Diploma in Senior Strategic Business Management (IoSCM) is a vocationally-related qualification. It develops learners' understanding of supply chains and their operation. This qualification is suitable for those in senior strategic business management roles.

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.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll gain knowledge of entrepreneurship's role in business, opportunity identification, and business generation strategies. The unit includes critical analysis of entrepreneurial concepts, abilities, and the influence of internal and external factors on entrepreneurial decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of entrepreneurship in business
  • Understand opportunities and Business Generation
  • Understand strategies to create business ideas
Senior Strategic Business Planning Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
It teaches you to implement strategic business planning, understand risk management techniques, and recognise the impact of relationships on business performance. You'll critically review planning processes, analyse innovative methods to expand strategic objectives, and compare various planning frameworks.

What you'll be able to do

  • Implement strategic business planning
  • Understand Risk Management techniques in strategic planning
  • Understand the impact of relationships on business performance
Senior Strategic Business Research Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll understand research philosophy and strategies in a business context and develop a comprehensive business research project. The unit covers epistemology and ontology perspectives, evaluation of research philosophies, and comparison of deductive and inductive approaches.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand Research Philosophy in Business
  • Understand Research Strategies in Business
  • Develop a Business Research Project
Senior Strategic Change Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit provides learners with an understanding of factors driving organisational change and the impact of change management models on business improvement. You'll analyse transformational factors, evaluate techniques to overcome resistance, and examine strategies supporting change management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the factors that drive the demand for organisational change.
  • Understand the impact of Change Management models on business improvement.
  • Support Change Management within an organisation.
Senior Strategic Global Procurement Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll understand the importance of aligning procurement with business strategy and be able to implement innovative procurement strategies. The unit covers tendering, cost, and risk management approaches in global procurement, alongside evaluation of tactical procurement tools and current best practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the value of aligning procurement to business strategy
  • Implement innovative procurement strategies in business
  • Understand tendering, cost, and risk management approaches in Global Procurement
Senior Strategic Leadership Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit provides learners with an understanding of how strategic leadership influences organisational direction, the value of effective leadership and innovation, and the skills required for global leadership. You'll examine leadership roles, analyse situational leadership frameworks, and compare leadership approaches.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how strategic leadership changes the trajectory of an organisation
  • Understand the value of effective leadership and innovation
  • Understand the skills and capacities required to exercise global leadership
Senior Strategic Logistics and Transport Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit covers the link between logistics strategy and marketing, types of logistics within the supply chain, and the importance of continuous improvement. You'll analyse the role of transport within logistics and assess the impact of logistics on organisational performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the link between Logistics Strategy and Marketing
  • Analyse different types of Logistics within the Supply Chain
  • Understand the importance of Continuous Improvement within Logistics
  • Understand the role of Transport within Logistics
  • Understand the impact of Logistics and Transport on the Global Supply Chain
Senior Strategic Management Principles Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll explore the impact of strategic planning and development on business success and how strategy creates a competitive advantage. The unit includes evaluation of internal and external environments, critical success factors, and various analysis methods for future strategic development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the impact of strategic planning and development on a business
  • Understand how business strategy creates a roadmap to competitive advantage
  • Understand the impact of critical success factors in establishing a thriving business
Senior Strategic Manufacturing and Production Principles Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll develop an understanding of lean production planning, manufacturing processes, and risk management in manufacturing. The unit includes analysis of production processes, evaluation of planning and benchmarking techniques, and consideration of financial implications in manufacturing.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand Production Planning from a Lean perspective
  • Understand Production Processes in Manufacturing
  • Understand Risk Management in Manufacturing
Senior Strategic Maritime Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit covers evaluation of global shipping demand drivers, maritime resource performance management, and maritime operations within a business context. You'll also understand international maritime law and regulations, and critically review challenges facing the shipping industry.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate the drivers for Global shipping demand.
  • Understand Maritime Resource Performance Management.
  • Understand Maritime Operations in a business context.
  • Understand International Maritime Law and regulations.
Senior Strategic Quality Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll study the evolution of quality management, the application of Quality Management Systems (QMS), and the implementation of quality management processes. The unit includes critical comparison of quality techniques and the impact of Quality 4.0 on industry, supporting Lean principles.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the Evolution of Quality Management
  • Understand the application of Quality Management Systems
  • Implement Quality Management processes
Senior Strategic Warehousing and Inventory Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
It teaches you to evaluate warehouse design management requirements and understand warehouse business structures within organisations. You'll also consider the importance of outsourcing logistics operations and the relationship between inventory management and organisational profitability.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate the key requirements of warehouse design management.
  • Understand warehouse business structures within organisations.
  • Understand the importance of outsourcing logistics operations.
  • Understand the relationship between Inventory Management and an organisation's profitability
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03Where 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.

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Where this can lead

Senior Global Strategic Sourcing Specialist

This work can lead to director-level strategic sourcing roles, or into supply chain and operations leadership.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 7 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

Business Innovation and EntrepreneurshipSenior Strategic Business PlanningSenior Strategic Business ResearchSenior Strategic Change ManagementSenior Strategic Global ProcurementSenior Strategic LeadershipSenior Strategic Logistics and TransportSenior Strategic Management Principles

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 Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Make the case from “Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship” to me in thirty seconds. I am the person who signs it off and I am already late.
You It would improve engagement and bring us in line with best practice.
The Coach Neither of those costs me anything to say no to. Open with the number that changes if I do nothing.
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.
  • Pitch it Evaluate

    “Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.

  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Senior Strategic Business Planning” 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

    “Senior Strategic Business Research” 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

    “Senior Strategic Change 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 Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship, one of this qualification's own units.

Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship Level 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Senior Global Strategic Sourcing SpecialistStrategic Sourcing Specialist ManagerSenior International Procurement Category ManagerProcurement Strategy ManagerLead Supplier StrategistSenior Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Learners will gain knowledge of entrepreneurship's role in business, opportunity identification, and business generation strategies. The unit includes critical analysis of entrepreneurial concepts, abilities, and the influence of internal and external factors on entrepreneurial decision-making.

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 7 Diploma in Senior Strategic Business Management (IoSCM)

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

  1. Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  2. Senior Strategic Business Planning
  3. Senior Strategic Business Research
  4. Senior Strategic Change Management
  5. Senior Strategic Global Procurement
  6. Senior Strategic Leadership

and 6 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.

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