Our vision is to produce current and future leaders in who want to make a positive impact on the world in the areas of supply chain management and procurement. To achieve that we have created a truly global, world-class programme of exceptional quality, which aims to be the leader in its area worldwide.
Programme outline
he MITx MicroMasters® Program in SCM from MIT CTL consists of five online courses that cover the fundamentals of supply chain management. These asynchronous online courses delivered by MIT CTL instructors will be augmented by synchronous instruction taught by professors at SKEMA.
The SKEMA MSc programme is comprised of four courses over the academic year: sustainability, new technologies (blockchain, big data, AI), market volatility, and soft skills (leadership, negotiation, communication). Skema has also successfully recruited 21 international C-Level industry experts who teach within the program and share their experiences with the class.
he programme uses new teaching approaches to improve especially the soft skills of our students to become future leaders. One of such courses is delivered by an acting training company that also teaches Executives at large international corporations and at Harvard, Insead and LBS.
Key facts
World's leading supply chain experts as lecturers
The foundation of a world-leading programme is exceptional teachers. To create future leaders, we need today's successful leaders as their teachers. This is why our programme probably has the most successful (industry) experts compared with all other master programmes in our area in the world.
Do you know of any supply chain management or procurement programme...
where the negotiation and leadership class is taught by an FBI director?
where a class in self-improvement for leaders is taught by one of the leading neuroscience experts of the world (named a Top 40 Professor in the world)?
where a procurement class is taught by a head of procurement of a huge global corporation with a revenue of more than 10 billion dollars?
where a supply chain consulting class is taught by a managing director of one of the leading consultancies in the world?
Or where a supply chain finance class is taught by a managing director of a bank?
This is our programme. Our goal is to build the leading programme by having the best, most experienced and successful leaders of today to teach the leading people of tomorrow.
Why choose this supply chain and procurement master's degree
Programme delivered in cooperation with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for
Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL).
Successful students will receive five-course certificates and an MITx MicroMasters® Program in
SCM credential issued by edX and MITx
They will also become MIT affiliate alumni, be able to interact and network with fellow credentialholders, and gain access to MIT library journals.
Probably the most successful (industry) experts, internationally recognised academic researchers
and highly regarded professionals teach on the programme. Our goal is to build the leading
programme by having the best, most experienced and successful leaders of today to teach the
leading people of tomorrow.
The MITx MicroMasters Program in SCM provided by MIT CTL covers analytical and technical
aspects of logistics and supply chain management, and SKEMA will complement it with courses on
business trends and leadership skills.
International student exchange with MIP Milano once a year, for elective courses.
This MSc not only provides soft skills in supply chain management and purchasing management,
but also digs deep into future trends in digitalisation and artificial intelligence, sustainability, ethics,
globalisation, risk management and agility. Graduates are able to create value for their company and
have a positive impact on the world.
After completing their master degree at SKEMA, students are allowed to finish the MIT master
degree in Supply Chain Management in just one semester
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International student exchange with MIP Milano
MIP Milano is, beside our programme, the other leading master's degree programme in the world with regards procurement. This makes them ideal partners to give a second perspective on this important topic. Once a year, our students have the opportunity to do an international student exchange for elective courses and can go to the beautiful MIP campus in Milan, while some master's degree students from MIP will come to do our electives.
The advisory board
The MSc Global Supply Chain Management & Procurement has an advisory board of high profile professionals and experts in these fields. They make sure the programme's content is kept in line with the industry's latest developments, trends and job market requirements.
Gabriela Allmi, director Europe at Harvard Business Publishing,
Laurent Chevreux, senior partner at Kearney
Christophe d’Auzac, principal of Supply Chain at Capgemini
Xavier Derycke, director Supply Chain Group at Rexel
Frederic Fayol, procurement practice leader at IBM (and 2002 alum of this SKEMA programme)
Vincent Gufflet, COO and member at the executive comittee at Fnac Darty
Cecile Jolivet, director Supply Chain at BIOCODEX and SKEMA alum
Aamir Shaukat, global vice president Group Sourcing and Procurement at EssilorLuxottica
Yann Teste, vice president Purchasing at Volvo Construction, and future programme lecturer
Harvard Business Publishing
We make sure to use the best class materials that exist. Harvard Business Publishing is, for many business schools, the highest quality source of class materials in the world. This is why our programme has a partnership with Harvard Business Publishing, and we use not only their renowned cases, but also other world class material like simulations and the mentor, which is designed to help and make great leaders. All these materials are also used at Harvard for teaching their students.
