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.
A Level 5 diploma, it focuses on procurement management within supply chains. It is designed for individuals in business management roles who want to develop their procurement expertise. Learners study innovation, leadership, operations, and warehouse 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, 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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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Effective Management of Transport Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
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
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 Information Systems Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and impact of using Management Information Systems on a business.
- Understand the relationship between Management Information Systems and business strategy
- Understand how Management Information Systems can drive change within a business
- Understand the role Management Information Systems play in decision-making and business
Management of Innovation within the Global Supply Chain Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
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
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
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
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
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.
Managing the Movement of Goods Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles, processes, and regulations applicable to the national and international movement of goods
- Understand the safety, security and handling requirements when transporting goods
- Understand the need for outsourcing logistics services
Principles of Effective Leadership and Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
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
- 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
Procurement Management Real unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
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
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
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.
- Standard
Apply quality standards to support relationship management in procurement and supply
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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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 297 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
Transport Director
This role can lead to wider logistics leadership, such as VP of Logistics and Distribution, or into a Chief Operations Officer position overseeing all of a company's operations.
See the whole journeyThe 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 Information SystemsManagement of Innovation within the Global Supply ChainManagement of Ports and Shipping OperationsManagement of Road Freight OperationsManagement of Sea Freight OperationsManaging Quality
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 · your map-it-properly tutor Illustration - Map a live decision Analyse
“Management Information Systems” 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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will study the purpose and principles of transport planning, including the influence of historical land use and sustainability considerations. The unit addresses demand drivers for transport and challenges related to freight movement and mobility.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for SFEDI Awards Level 5 Diploma in Procurement Management (IoSCM)
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards.
- Effective Management of Transport
- Effective Operations Management Processes
- Management Information Systems
- Management of Innovation within the Global Supply Chain
- Management of Ports and Shipping Operations
- Management of Road Freight Operations
and 6 more in the full unit list below.
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