MSc Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Paris, France
MSc
DURATION
18 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Nov 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 12,950
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
The Master of Science is a specialised Master’s programme that provides students with expertise in the Supply Chain area.
With this 18 months programme, students will acquire general managerial skills that will allow them to have a fulfilling career in any field. This programme will allow students to obtain a co-diploma, in partnership with ESC Clermont Business School.
This programme enables students to acquire concepts, methods and tools that are essential to becoming professionals in this ever-growing field.
Why enrol in an MSc Purchasing and Supply Chain Management?
The Master of Science in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management will allow you to follow a fully English programme at the heart of Paris.
High-level skills
Purchasing is of great importance to manage a company. The system of supply chains is constantly renewed and managers need to build on the skills they have acquired on this course in:
- Sourcing policy;
- Relocation;
- Strategic or safety stocks;
- Risk management.
1st Semester
Fundamentals Of Purchasing & Scm
- Introduction to purchasing
- Identification of purchasing needs
- International purchasing rules
- Expression of needs
- Purchasing costs
- Negotiation basics
- Supplier relationship management
- Essentials of SCM
- Demand planning and forecasting
- Essentials of production planning
- Inventory management basics
- Introduction to lean manufacturing
- Meetings with companies' practitioners
- Tutorials
- Sourcing cases presentation
Shared Modules
- Thesis methodology
- Mastering Data in Excel (e-learning)
- French language skills
- Job Marketing
2nd Semester
Advanced Program
- Global sourcing and contracting (case of emerging countries)
- Negotiation advanced
- Purchasing per sector
- Purchasing costs and risks
- Business cases and professional testimonies
- Tutorials (problems + teamwork on purchasing project)
- Project management
- Business intelligence
- Digitalization
- Strategies with global strategy
- Alignment of purchasing and SCM
- Demand management
- Capturing innovation
- Lean, quality and continuous improvement
- Manufacturing planning and control system
- Inventory management and ordering systems
- Production activity and capacity control
- Physical distribution advanced
Shared Modules
- Strategic management
- Information systems for managers
- French language skills
- Meeting with practitioners
3rd Semester
Professional Mission And Thesis
- Master's thesis
- Oral presentation
- Company assessment
Objectives of this MSc
- Knowledge and practice of purchasing activities, methods and tools
- Acquisition of professional standards of competence in Supply Chain Management
- Development of a vision considering all flows and processes and focused on continuous improvement (Lean approach)
- Associated soft skills
Jobs openings
Supply Chain
- Project Manager Supply Chain
- Demand Planner
- Production Planning Coordinator
- Inventory Manager
- Supply Manager
- Warehouse Manager
- Consultant
Purchasing
- Category/Family Buyer
- Project Buyer
- Capex Buyer
- Industrial Buyer
- Service Buyer
- Public Sector Buyer
- Purchasing Project Manager
- Consultant