Business Management and Supply Chain with Professional Placement

Reasons to choose Kingston

• In just three years, you’ll graduate with a business degree and the real-life practical experience and skills that employers are looking for.

• This course is designed and developed in collaboration with industry experts across different areas of the business world to ensure content reflects latest trends, challenges and practices.

• You won't just learn about supply chains - you'll develop the confidence and capabilities to help lead and transform them.

• Graduate employability is embedded in module activities and extracurricular events such as networking with industry professionals, hackathons and speed interviewing.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course
The course will introduce you to the fundamentals of the modern business ecosystem and the key current and future developments shaping supply chain management. You’ll explore the core components of supply chains, their purpose within organisations, and how effective supply chain strategies contribute to operational performance and business success. You’ll also examine the role of data in supply chain decision-making and the impact of digital technologies, automation and global logistics trends on how businesses operate.

You’ll build a strong foundation across all areas of business while developing specialist skills in supply chain management. This broad background in business and management will prepare you for a wide range of graduate roles and sectors. A focus on supply chain will give you a competitive edge if you're interested in careers in logistics, procurement, operations or global trade.

Professional Placement Year
This course has a professional placement year which takes place between Year 2 and your Final Year. During this year you will take a placement within a business setting, ensuring you gain essential experience to add to your CV and help you secure a graduate job.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
This course will prepare you for a career in business management, with the opportunity to develop deeper expertise in supply chain management across a variety of sectors. You’ll gain a combination of business, operational and technology-driven skills, equipping you for the current and future workplace. This blend of knowledge will support career paths in logistics, procurement, operations, inventory management, and global supply chain roles. If you choose to specialise further, your supply chain insight will give you a strong advantage in an increasingly interconnected and data-led industry.

Examples of modules:

• Global Business Environments
• Supply Chain Management
• Leadership, Transformation and Complexity

To view the full list of modules, please visit the University course webpage.

Assessment typically comprises exams (e.g. test or exam), practical (e.g. presentations, performance) and coursework (e.g. essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios, dissertation).