Post Graduate Diploma in Supply Chain and Shipping Management

A post graduate diploma provides students with an in depth knowledge of shipping business and the various legal formalities etc.

The logistics activities are the operational component of supply chain management, including quantification, procurement, inventory management, transportation and fleet management, and data collection and reporting. Supply chain management consists of all the logistics activities along with the coordination and collaboration of staff levels and functions. The supply chain includes global manufacturers and supply and demand dynamics, but logistics tends to focus more on specific tasks within a particular program health system. The main idea of supply chain integration involves improving efficiency and reducing redundancy, thus improving product availability and, often, reducing costs.

Logistic activities consists of the following : the formation of economic relations; determining the need for transportation of goods, their volumes and destinations, consistency and movement of products through the storage site; coordination of operational supply chain management and transportation; the formation and regulation of product inventories; development, deployment and organization of storage facilities; perform operations immediately preceding and trailing carriage of goods. Shipping management includes ship management activities and services, the concept of outsourcing ship management, ship registration, the regulatory environment especially with regards to environmental protection, energy efficiency and measuring and assessing ship management performance.