University of East Anglia

Norwich Business School of the University of East Anglia is one of the UK’s top business schools based in a beautiful ancient city, now a high energy tech-savvy business hub, two hours from the City of London. We’re in the UK top 20 for research quality. Norwich Business School is one of the fastest growing business schools in the UK, with a team of more than 100 internationally recognised academics and business experts. Norwich Business School is home to a vibrant and engaged research community. With a reputation for providing pioneering courses accredited by leading professional bodies, we are dedicated to providing an outstanding student learning experience, and producing world-class research that informs and influences business and public policy thinking and influences business and public policy. We have an enduring culture of working beyond subject and geographical boundaries. Our teaching is research-led, which means that one will benefit from the latest thinking in the industry.

The Innovation, Technology and Operations Management (ITOM) group at Norwich Business School undertake research, scholarship and teaching in the fields of innovation, technology and operations management. The group have particular strengths in the areas of value chain analysis, supply chain strategy and supply management, data analytics, sustainable energy, social media and digital transformation. We have expertise in business analytics and a variety of modelling and data driven decision support and optimisation techniques. We work across manufacturing and services. We have particular expertise in agri-food, energy and the digital sector. Our group’s MSc Operations and Logistics Management course will facilitate you learn how to anticipate and respond to problems, and how to create order in the most complex situations. We have strong links to industry, and our students also learn from practising experts and guest speakers.

The course is carefully designed to help you understand the primary and supporting activities in a value chain, and operations and logistics management practices. You will study key areas such as inventories, transportation, warehousing, procurement, supply chain and logistics operations, sustainable supply chains, innovations and technology management, low-carbon supply chain, and materials management.