Supply Chain Management

The Supply Chain Management Master Program seeks to qualify students academically and professionally to meet the needs of the Palestinian, regional and global business fields.
Q & A about the program:
  • About the program:

The Supply Chain Management program aims to equip students with the required knowledge, tools, and skills to fully operate integrated, efficient, and optimized supply chains that improve different organizations’ performance.

The program inspires ambitious leaders to understand the private, governmental, and non-governmental diverse sectors and to lead them to enhance operations and reach growth. Furthermore, it seeks to enrich the students’ capabilities in managing organizations in procurements, stocking, customs clearing, and logistic services fields to help and succeed in developing Palestinian organizations.

 

  • What are the admission criteria?

The SCM program committee gives attention to all of the application requirements’ components equally, and each component will be assessed as the committee agrees upon. For example, they consider the applicant's Bachelor's GPA, work experience, interview performance, and the relevance between the undergraduate major with the Supply Chain field. The grades of each applicant will be distributed according to each component, and the ones who got the highest grades will receive the admission offer. Note: the program allows for applications from different backgrounds, but some majors, such as Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, and Engineering, receive higher grades in the assessment weight. Nonetheless, our program has accepted students from the Arts, Natural Sciences, and Pharmacy faculties who showed their academic interests and practical experiences in the SCM and logistics field, and who approved their seriousness in developing their knowledge and skills through applying to the program.

 

  • Does the program require a full-time commitment?

The program does not require a full-time commitment. The program is designed to be compatible with the students’ job working hours through the modules-based courses. The modules-based courses provide intensive courses for two or three weeks (10 lectures approximately/ 4 hours for each lecture) from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.

 
  • What about the program time frame?

The courses are taught over two academic years, with two or three courses per semester. For example, the first cohort of the program initiated studying in the second semester (March 2022), and are going to complete all of the program requirements in the first semester (February 2024) and will graduate at the 2024 graduation party.

The second cohort of the program will start its first course in February 2024, and the students are going to complete all of the program requirements in February 2026, to join the 2026 graduation party.

 

  • What about teaching hours?

The program is designed to be compatible with the students’ job working hours through the modules-based courses. The modules-based courses provide intensive courses for two or three weeks (10 lectures approximately/ 4 hours for each lecture) from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.

 

  • Are there any scholarships?

The program offers partial scholarships that cover 30% of the tuition fees to liaise and enhance the relationship between Birzeit University and the company or the organization in which the students work in.

 

  • What about the applied and practical side of the program?

The program heavily relies on the field and practical components to enrich the students’ practical experience and help them network to optimize their job opportunities. For example, many guest speakers were invited to deliver specialized lectures such as Unipal for General Trading Co, Royal Industrial Trading Co, WeDeliver Co, and Polaris Technologies, also with specialists from international institutions like UNICEF, UNRWA, and Save the Children International. Moreover, the program depends on field and study visits to several Palestinian, local and global foundations. For instance, the students have visited Palestinian companies such as NBC (National Beverage Company), Izhiman Coffee Company, Royal Industrial Trading Company, WPI (Al-Wafa Plastic Industries), and others.

Brochure about the program

The supply chain management program aims to provide students with the knowledge, tools, and skills required to fully operate integrated, efficient, and optimized supply chains that improve different organizations’ performance. The program inspires visionary leaders to comprehend and lead the divergent private, governmental and non-governmental sectors in order to enhance operations and reach growth. The program seeks to enrich students’ capabilities in managing organizations in the areas of procurement, warehousing, customs clearance, and logistics in order to successfully assist in the development of Palestinian organizations.

 

What are the program’s goals?

  1. To equip the students with a comprehensive vision of the supply chain and improve their administrative abilities to supervise the supply chain operations in different sectors.
  2. To enrich the students with practical and theoretical knowledge about inventory management, logistics, operations, and procurements efficiently and distinctively.
  3. To provide the students with the needed technological applications to implement the supply chain operations, production, logistic services, and procurements such as Enterprise Resource Planning ERP through creating an effective job scheduling.
  4. To encourage the student to cooperate and network with private Palestinian companies, governmental and non-governmental institutions, and international and organizations to implement applied and practical projects for some specific units and operations or of their final research projects.
  5. To understand the production and operations mechanisms including, resourcing, materials management, and operation planning.
  6. To manage the supply chains with social and moral responsibility.
  7. To be familiar with the essential instabilities in supply chains among the global and local markets and how to overcome those challenges.
  8. To develop decision-making skills, backed with data analysis and feature modeling systems to master supply chains.
  9. To equip the student with academic, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
  10. To be able to conduct accurate scientific research, research papers, and study cases.

Over two years of the SCM Master Program, we foresee our students to be able to:

  1. To acquire a deep understanding of data analysis and research techniques in SCM.
  2. To build connections and collaborations with multifunctional Supply Chain teams.
  3. To succeed in forming and building networks with local and international expertise in various Supply Chain fields.
  4. To set strategies in demand fulfillment, distribution, capacity management, and procurement.
  5. To attain strong skills in communication, presentation, negotiating, and influencing in management.
  6. To conduct and lead research projects, including data gathering and analysis.
  7. To understand and apply various research methodologies.

 

  1. Supply Chain Manager.
  2. Production and Operation Manager.
  3. Logistic Manager.
  4. Procurements Specialist.
  5. Procurements Manager.
  6. Manager of production, transportation and inventory planning.
  7. Quality Management Specialist.
  8. Project Manager.
  9. Specialist, Researcher, Consultant in SCM, Procurements and Logistics.
  10. Our graduates are eligible for admission to doctoral programs at prestigious international universities.

The SCM program committee gives attention to all of the application requirements’ components equally, and each component will be assessed as the committee agrees upon. For example, they consider the applicant's Bachelor's GPA, work experience, interview performance, and the relevance between the undergraduate major with the Supply Chain field. The grades of each applicant will be distributed according to each component, and the ones who got the highest grades will receive the admission offer. Note: the program allows for applications from different backgrounds, but some majors, such as Business Administration, Marketing, Finance, and Engineering, receive higher grades in the assessment weight. Nonetheless, our program has accepted students from the Arts, Natural Sciences, and Pharmacy faculties who showed their academic interests and practical experiences in the SCM and logistics field, and who approved their seriousness in developing their knowledge and skills through applying to the program.

Thus, admission into the SCM Master Program requires:

1- Having a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university with not below a good rate.

2- Performing a personal interview or asking the applicant to write a text according to the committee’s requirements, and this occurs in cases when the committee sees a necessity to do it.