Management
Programme
MSc Global Supply Chain Management & Procurement
Practical information
Type of programme
Full time
Duration
1 or 2 years
Tuition fees
€25,000 for the 1-year MSc / €44,000 for the 2-year MSc
Location
Dubai (UAE), Lille (France)
Language
English
Start date(s)
September, January
Admission level
High school + 3 years of study, Bachelor degree
Degree
Master degree
Programme overview
Become a leader who makes a positive impact on the world in the areas of supply chain and procurement
Cooperation with MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
and collaboration with Harvard Business School Online and Harvard Business Publishing.
This MSc is a full-time programme with eight months of courses followed by work experience or a research project.
The QS 2024 ranking placed this MSc 16th worldwide and 9th among the European schools represented.
The 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.
The 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.
The programme is taught in Lille (France) and will be taught in Dubaï (United Arab Emirates) from fall 2025.
Aiming to be the leading master's in supply chain worldwide
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.
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.
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- 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.
- Programme delivered in collaboration with Harvard Business School Online and Harvard Business Publishing. Students will receive 1 course certificate from Harvard Business School Online.
- 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, once per semester, for elective courses, with Politecnico di Milano (ranked 7th worldwide by QS) and Lancaster University (ranked 13th worldwide by QS). Students will participate in a Two-day Leadership camp in the French Alps and receive a Certificate in Leadership and team work for that.
- 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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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.
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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
- Yann de Feraudy, President of France Supply Chain
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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.
The programme in videos
Programme courses
The MSc covers the whole span of supply chain activities from planning, purchasing, receiving, production, storage to delivery through compulsory courses, and six elective courses and specific projects. It is designed with a progressive shift from theory to practice.
Specific courses are structured around project-based learning, where students do projects in companies in order to deal with real-life supply chains and purchasing issues.
SEMESTER ONE
CORE COURSES
- Managing Teams (Leadership Camp), 1 credit
- Supply Chain Analytics SC0 (MIT), 3 credits
- Supply Chain Fundamentals: Forecasting, Inventory and Transportation SC1 (MIT), 4 credits
- Supply Chain Dynamics: Systems, Processes, Global SCM and Risk SC3 (MIT), 3 credits
- Strategic Procurement, 3 credits
- Advanced Supply Chain Risk Management, 1 credit
- Company and Supply Chain Strategy, 1 credit
- Research Methods, 1 credit
- Career Management 1, 1 credit
Elective courses (choose 4)
- Research Methods, 1 credit
- Logistics Management (Lancaster), 2 credits
- Supply Chain Scandals, Shitstorms, Ethical Problems and UN Global Compact, 1 credit
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), 1 credit
- Leadership, Resilience and Supply Chain Disruptions, 1 credit
- Leadership and Culture in the Military and International Corporate Supply Chain Context, 1 credit
- End 2 End Supply Chain Innovation, 1 credit
- Bad Buying – What Can Go Wrong in Procurement, 1 credit
- Procurement Consulting & Value Chain Partnering, 1 credit
- Agile Project Management in Supply Chains, 1 credit
- Leadership, Career, Values and Purpose, 1 credit
- Influencing People 1 Advanced SCM Strategy in a Rapidly Changing Global Environment, 1 credit
- Digital Transformation and Supply Chain Management, 1 credit
- Fashion & Luxury: Branded Supply Chain Management, 1 credit
- Lean Six Sigma and Toyota Production Systems, 1 credit
- Humanitarian Logistics, 1 credit
- End 2 End Supply Chain Practice, 1 credit
- Narrative Analytics for the Successfull Supply Chain Professional, 1 credit
TOTAL CREDITS SEMESTER 1: 21
SEMESTER TWO
CORE COURSES
- Supply Chain Design: Design, Finance and Sourcing SC2 (MIT), 4 credits
- Supply Chain Technology and Systems: IT, Systems and Data SC4 (MIT), 3 credits
- Big Data and Applied Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management, 2 credits
- Operations Management, 2 credits
- Purchasing Negotiation, 2 credits
- Leading Global Teams, 1 credit
- Sustainability and Climate Change in Supply Chains, 1 credit
- Global Supply Chains 1 Leadership Principles (Harvard), 1 credit
- Career Management 2, 0 credit
Elective courses (choose electives totalling 4 credits)
- Internet of Things (POLIMI), 2 credits
- Advanced Supply Chain Finance, 1 credit
- Sustainability Leadership 1 E-Commerce, 1 credit
- Energy and Geopolitics, 1 credit
- Procurement in Complex Environments, 1 credit
- Procurement and Supply Chain Consulting, 1 credit
- Impacting People, 1 credit
- Negotiation and Crisis Management, 1 credit
- Negotiation and Improvisation 1 Circular Economy, 1 credit
- Real Company SCM and Procurement Improvement Project, 3 credits
- Project Management, 1 credit
- War and Global Supply Chains, 1 credit
- Position Yourself in Life and Career, 1 credit
- Operations Research 1 AI and Digital Transformation, 1 credit
- AI Enabled Decision Making for Real World Supply Chains, 1 credit
- Last Mile, 1 credit
- Regenerative Procurement, 1 credit
TOTAL CREDITS SEMESTER 2: 21
TOTAL FULL YEAR (SEMESTER 1 + 2 + DISSERTATION) = 60 CREDITS
SEMESTER ONE
CORE COURSES
- Supply Chain Analytics SC0 (MIT), 3 credits
- Supply Chain Fundamentals: Forecasting, Inventory and Transportation SC1 (MIT), 4 credits
- Supply Chain Dynamics: Systems, Processes, Global SCM and Risk SC3 (MIT), 3 credits
- Strategic Procurement, 3 credits
- Advanced Supply Chain Risk Management 1 Company and Supply Chain Strategy, 1 credit
- Career Management 1, 1 credit
- Research Methods, 1 credit
- Bad Buying – What can go wrong in procurement, 1 credit
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), 1 credit
- Leadership, Career, Values and Purpose, 1 credit
- Fashion & Luxury: Branded Supply Chain Management, 1 credit
TOTAL CREDITS SEMESTER 1: 21
SEMESTER TWO
CORE COURSES
- SC2 (MIT), 4 credits
- Supply Chain Technology and Systems: IT, Systems and Data SC4 (MIT), 3 credits
- Big Data and Applied Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management, 2 credits
- Operations Management, 2 credits
- Purchasing Negotiation, 2 credits
- Leading Global Teams 1 Sustainability and Climate Change in Supply Chains, 1 credit
- Global Supply Chains, 1 credit
- Career Management 2, 0 credit
- Leadership Principles (Harvard), 1 credit
- Energy and Geopolitics, 1 credit
- Sustainability Leadership, 1 credit
- AI and Digital Transformation, 1 credit
- Procurement and Supply Chain Consulting, 1 credit
TOTAL CREDITS SEMESTER 2: 21
TOTAL FULL YEAR (SEMESTER 1 + 2 + DISSERTATION) = 60 CREDITS
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Financing
2025/2026
Careers
MSc employment survey (class of 2023)
- Net employment rate (at six months): 95%
- 54% work outside of their home country
- Business areas students choose to work in : Purchasing, Logistics, Consulting, Audit, Management & Finance, Business Development & Sales, Project Management
Career opportunities
Graduates of this MSc have strong potential for recruitment in procurement and purchasing as well as in supply chain management. The field of purchasing today includes such tasks as supplier relationship management, supplier performance evaluation, sustainable procurement, helping suppliers in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, risk evaluation etc.
In supply chains, graduates are involved in planning future demand, serving customers better and faster in more markets in jobs ranging from generalist supply chain management, materials management, demand analyst, category manager, as well as consulting positions.
Recruiting companies
Amazon, Auchan, Bearingpoint, Capgemini, Coca Cola, Danone, Deloitte, Dior, Henkel, Nestlé, Nissan Automobile, Plastic Omnium, Renault, Safran, Samsung, Volkswagen.
SKEMA Talent & Careers : Get ready for your career
SKEMA Talent & Careers, made of career consultants and dedicated experts, supports students in getting ready for their professional project, in discovering jobs, companies and business sectors, and in sourcing internships and jobs.
Our mission is to give you all the resources, methods and opportunities to successfully get on the job market.
Professional development
Build your professional project at each step of your studies thanks to dedicated support and resources.
Corporate events
Meet companies and recruiters, learn more about jobs and business sectors.
Internship and job search
Find your dream internship among a large number of offers available to you, in France or abroad.
Personalised advice
Discuss your plans further with a Talent & Careers consultant and get individualised guidance.
SKEMA Alumni : A powerful, supportive network
As an MSc student, you will become a member of SKEMA Alumni, a network of more than 60,000 graduates in key positions in more than 145 countries around the world. You will benefit from the numerous services that will help you to promote business opportunities, meetings and professional development.
Student testimonial
"I achieved my goals thanks to the personalised coaching I received from qualified professionals.
I was referred to the Talent & Careers team to get professional advice regarding my CV, cover letter and the steps I needed to succeed with my professional ambitions. During our regular exchanges, we defined a personalised strategy in line with my expectations.
I have found an internship in a company with great values and I want to thank the Talent & Careers team for their precious advice."
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