MBA in Leadership and Supply Chain Management

MBA in Leadership and Supply Chain Management

Our part-time MBA in Leadership and Supply Chain Management is an exciting educational experience focused on preparing high potential professionals to become global leaders in supply chain operations and management. Enjoy the advantages of studying at Kühne Logistics University – with its interactive learning experience, its international environment, and its vital relationships to the business world.

Students completing this program acquire practical knowledge and skills enabling them to:

• Take on leadership roles in global businesses having complex international operations;
• Develop effective corporate and supply strategies to compete in complex international settings;
• Develop the ability to analyze complex business problems and to effectively apply management practices and principles to these challenges;
• Understand complexities of intercultural cooperation to ensure effective interaction with international subsidiaries and partners;
• Leverage the creative energies of themselves and their colleagues to create innovative solutions to global operational issues that are both sustainable and profitable.

Studying at KLU means learning in an international, multi-cultural atmosphere: our students and professors come from all over the world, all of our courses are held in English, and our curricula address the international issues facing today’s businesses. As part of the MBA program, two sessions are held at international partner universities: one at the Fisher College of Business, the Ohio State University, USA, and Universidad de los Andes School of Management in Bogotá (Colombia).

The program is an eighteen-month long part-time program mixing classroom work with team-based projects. Two international trips are integrated into the curriculum to provide the students with background information on how other cultures learn and work. A capstone project (thesis) based on a real-world problem of importance to the student and their employer integrates the knowledge developed throughout the program and provides the student with a transition from learning to actual practice.

Our MBA in Leadership and Supply Chain Management focuses on training students to become leaders that create true, sustainable value for their organizations, their society and themselves. Over the course of the program, the contents of the modules move along the lines of a broad strategic perspective to focusing on more detailed, tactical issues in operational management. As such, they cover all subject areas of business administration. The courses delivered align with KLU’s key competence areas:

• Digital Transformation
• Creating Value
• Sustainability

The program is composed of nine modules, including the capstone project.

1. Economic and Social Foundations of Global Businesses
2. Ethically Competing in Global Businesses
3. Organizing and Managing Global Operations
4. Developing Valuable Products for Customers and Society
5. Sustainable Supply Chain Operations
6. Leveraging Information for Better Decisions (Study Trip to Tongji University)
7. Managing Supply Chains for Value (Study Trip to the Ohio State University)
8. Organizational Behavior and Leadership
9. Master Thesis (capstone project)

In which industries do graduates work in?

Our Alumni work across a wide range of functions related to logistics and supply chain management, consulting, business development and sales, automotive, computer software, maritime & shipping industry as well as in logistics & transportation.

In which companies do graduates from the Leadership & SCM MBA work?

Your degree from the KLU will certainly be career boosting. Alumni from our programs work for Otto Group, Hapag-Lloyd AG, Hamburg Süd, Accenture GmbH, Airbus S.A.S., BASF, Beiersdorf AG, DB Schenker - Rail, EADS Group, IBM Group, Kühne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG, Johnson & Johnson Medical, Lufthansa Group, Siemens, Vattenfall Wind Power or Anheuser-Bush.