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  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

This Level 5 Award in Supply Chain Management is for those seeking to develop an understanding of supply chain operations. It covers topics such as innovation management, leadership principles, operations management, and warehouse management within the business management sector.

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

Effective Management of Transport Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
It teaches you to understand transport planning, including the influence of historical land use developments and sustainability principles. You'll examine transport demand drivers and challenges related to access, mobility, and freight movement.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose of transport planning
  • Understand how historical developments and newer trends in land use affect transport planning
  • Understand how the principles of sustainability are applied to transport planning
  • Understand the key drivers behind the demand for transport
  • Understand challenges associated with freight movement
Effective Operations Management Processes Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit covers the role and impact of operations management within a business, including its relationship with strategic planning. You'll analyse the responsibilities of operations managers and the design of operations processes to support business improvement.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of operations and operations management within a business
  • Support the relationship between operations management and strategic planning, including the challenges this alliance highlights for a business
  • Understand the design of operations processes and the design of the products and services that businesses produce
  • Implement operations improvement techniques that could enhance competitive advantage within a business
Management of Innovation within the Global Supply Chain Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit equips learners with knowledge of innovation management within the global supply chain. You'll understand modern supply chain capabilities, support logistics operations, assess Industry 4.0 impacts, and contribute to secure and advanced supply chain practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the Capabilities and Responsibilities of an effective modern supply chain
  • Support the operation, advancement, and secure management of logistics operations
  • Understand the impact of implementing Industry 4.0 advancements into a supply chain
  • Contribute to the employment of modern technologies to support the strategic objectives of a business
Management of Ports and Shipping Operations Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll examine the significance of shipping and international maritime trade, including business strategies that support growth. The unit covers container terminal management, agile port concepts, and port operations to enhance maritime trade efficiency.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of Shipping and International maritime trade
  • Understand how business strategy contributes to growth in maritime trade
  • Understand how effective container terminal management aids Port operations
  • Understand the concept of an agile Port
  • Understand Port operations and evolutions within a Port
Management of Road Freight Operations Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit provides learners with knowledge of road transportation's role in supply chains, including security requirements and route planning conventions. You'll support setting standards and performance measurements while analysing factors affecting freight movements and sustainability.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of road transportation in supply chains.
  • Support the setting of standards and performance measurements
  • Understand the security requirements associated with Road Transport policy.
  • Understand route planning conventions of road transport.
Management of Sea Freight Operations Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll study the principles of sea freight management, including relevant legislation and regulations. The unit covers the roles of freight forwarders and ship owners, factors influencing sea freight demand and supply, and financial strategies in shipping operations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of Sea Freight Management for a business.
  • Understand the legislation and regulations governing the movement of shipping.
  • Understand the role of Shipping Freight Operations
  • Understand different financial strategies for shipping
Managing Quality Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll understand various quality management systems and their impact within a business. The unit includes researching quality management tools and applying them to improve organisational performance through quality standards and continuous improvement.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand a range of quality management systems used within a business.
  • Understand the impact of quality management systems.
  • Research the tools used to manage quality in a business.
  • Understand how quality management tools improve organisational performance.
Principles of Effective Leadership and Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll study effective leadership and management principles, focusing on personal development and meeting stakeholder expectations. The unit covers analysing leadership styles, applying theoretical models, and understanding how knowledge informs decision-making and change management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of leadership and management and personal development as a manager
  • Implement opportunities that support effective management techniques to meet stakeholder expectations
  • Analyse how decision-making is informed by knowledge and information
  • Understand the role a manager can play in managing change, projects, and risk assessment in an organisation
Procurement Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
This unit introduces project management principles, including identifying and managing projects and risks. You'll learn to monitor, review, and evaluate project progress within a business context.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of Project Management
  • Identify a Management Project
  • Understand how to identify and manage risk
  • Monitor, review and evaluate a Project
Warehouse Management Principles Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
You'll explore warehouse management principles, focusing on the importance of warehouse policies, resource requirements, and compliance with Health and Safety legislation. The unit also covers technological advancements and financial systems relevant to warehouse operations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of a robust warehouse policy
  • Understand the resource requirements of warehousing
  • Follow Health and Safety legislation applicable to a warehouse
  • Understand the value of Technological advancements in a warehouse
  • Understand how financial systems operate within a warehouse
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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

Warehouse Manager

This job can lead into wider supply chain or operations roles, such as head of supply chain or operations director.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 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

Effective Management of TransportEffective Operations Management ProcessesManagement of Innovation within the Global Supply ChainManagement of Ports and Shipping OperationsManagement of Road Freight OperationsManagement of Sea Freight OperationsManaging QualityPrinciples of Effective Leadership and 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 Analyst The Analyst · your map-it-properly tutor Illustration
The Analyst In “Managing Quality” you have moved the target from 48 hours to 24. Where does that time come from?
You The team prioritises better, I suppose.
The Analyst Or it comes out of the follow-ups, and reopened cases climb in about six weeks. Let us map it and find out which, before it is a surprise.
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.
  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Managing Quality” 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

    “Effective Management of Transport” 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 Effective Management of Transport, one of this qualification's own units.

Effective Management of Transport Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Warehouse ManagerShipping and Receiving Specialist ManagerChief Operations OfficerGlobal Operations ManagerChief Operations Officer (COO)Director of Operations

This unit enables learners to understand transport planning, including the influence of historical land use developments and sustainability principles. Learners will examine transport demand drivers and challenges related to access, mobility, and freight movement.

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 5 Award in Supply Chain Management (IoSCM)

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

  1. Effective Management of Transport
  2. Effective Operations Management Processes
  3. Management of Innovation within the Global Supply Chain
  4. Management of Ports and Shipping Operations
  5. Management of Road Freight Operations
  6. Management of Sea Freight Operations

and 4 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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