Online Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management

Online Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management

POSTGRADUATE

Build on your skills to move into a leading role.

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Duration:
8 months intensive part-time
Fees:

AU$16,800 (2025), FEE-HELP available*

Next intake:
5 May 2025
Location:
Online
Learning mode:
Entry score:

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Duration:
8 months intensive part-time
Fees:

AU$16,800 (2025)

Next intake:
5 May 2025
Location:
Online

Please use plan code GC055O in the application system for this degree.

Gain the expertise to design efficient supply chains, apply advanced analytics for better decision-making, and lead projects to success, combining critical technical skills with a strategic approach to enhance your professional impact.

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Next intake
5 May

Applications close for next intake
28 April

Future intakes

  • May
  • July
  • September
  • October

Program overview

Why study the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management online?

Forge a successful career in a rapidly evolving sector

With opportunities in supply and procurement, freight transport, forwarding, distribution, and warehousing.

Make better decisions surrounding environmental impact

Understand green practices and discover how you can create and implement sustainable strategies.

Certified by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Australia

Recognising students who have significant line and management experience, and have the necessary educational requirements.

Our Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management offers a dynamic online learning experience designed to equip professionals with comprehensive skills in managing complex supply chains.

This degree integrates key concepts from supply chain principles, business analytics, and logistics system design.

You’ll gain expertise in using data-driven insights for strategic decision-making, apply analytical techniques to optimise logistics systems, and develop effective project management skills.

By blending these elements, the certificate not only enhances practical skills and strategic thinking but also prepares you to lead and innovate in the rapidly evolving field of supply chain management.

This degree is accredited by the professional bodies listed below:

For more information please see the handbook below.

By the end of this course you’ll be able to: 

  • Critically and methodically analyse contemporary logistics and supply chain issues to design efficient and effective operations processes
  • Apply analytical logistics and supply chain skills to solve operationally complex problems
  • Demonstrate confidence and competence in negotiating contracts, resolving conflicts and rationalising business decisions in multi-cultural settings
  • Utilise project and change management skills to develop solutions for dealing with dynamically complex business problems
  • Apply and integrate professional theory with practice in authentic Work Integrated Learning (WIL) contexts, professional contexts and industry settings.

Career Outlook

Take a closer look at the opportunities available with a career in Supply Chain and Logistics Management.

The Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management prepares you for a career that involves planning, implementation and execution of customer-responsive and sustainable strategies across the entire value chain.

Why choose RMIT Online

Get a world-class education and transform your career.

Real world skills

Develop skills that have been validated by industry, while getting credentialed by a world-leading university.

Industry connected

You'll gain knowledge and practical skills from renowned industry partners who are at the forefront of their field.

Flexible delivery

Advance your career while you study. RMIT Online courses let you balance work, study and life commitments.

Supported community

Be guided by a network of industry experts and peers, and supported by our dedicated success team.

Course structure

Explore key principles of supply chain management.

Learn how to integrate logistics concepts across various sectors, solve complex supply chain problems, and communicate solutions to both specialists and non-specialists.

Develop the ability to use business analytics to inform decision-making, applying statistical and predictive models to improve business performance, while designing and managing logistics systems, applying analytical techniques to real-world scenarios, and using mathematical models to solve logistics challenges. 

Subjects in this degree

The four subjects that make up the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management include:

  • OMGT2286 Supply Chain Principles  
  • ISYS3375 Business Analytics  
  • OMGT2287 Supply Chain Modelling & Design  
  • BUSM4611 Business Project Management  

Individual subject details

Course overview

This course generally refers to a network of business entities working together to deliver a product or service to market.

Therefore, supply chain management extends the study of logistics beyond the boundaries of a single organisation and places particular emphasis on the interfaces between the ‘chain’ or ‘network’ of enterprises engaged in moving products, services, and information, from suppliers through intermediaries to end users and/or consumers. 
 
The overarching framework around which the course content is organised is the supply chain management performance and capability continuum which has 3 critical components, namely operational excellence, supply chain integration and collaboration, and virtual supply chains.

Learning outcomes

  • Integrate advanced concepts of logistics and supply chain management as implemented in public and private sectors
  • Critically analyse situations and develop solutions to complex, real-world supply chain problems by leveraging resources, capabilities, and competencies
  • Apply specialised discipline skills to independently interpret and transmit logistics and supply chain knowledge, capabilities and ideas to specialist and non-specialist audiences
  • Conduct research to understand applications of supply chain management concepts in practice. 

Course overview

This course introduces you to the concepts, fundamentals and tools of business analytics.

You will critically examine how data can be used to drive decision-making through statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive modelling and fact-based management.

You will also develop, evaluate and analyse core analytic techniques and skills that are frequently applied in business.

No matter what your business focus, you and/or your business will be a future user of analytics.

Learning outcomes

  • Evaluate the key concepts of business analytics and assess the results generated to deliver positive outcomes
  • Argue the relationship of the business analytics process within the organisation’s decision-making process
  • Access relevant business data and pre-analyse the data to the exact specifications and variables
  • Examine and apply appropriate business analytic techniques and methods, to inform responsive, evidence-based decision-making to improve performance. 

Course overview

This course aims to provide key theories and practices in design and management of logistics systems. It prepares you for logistics management positions in manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and distribution firms.

The course covers specific areas of distribution, warehousing and transportation, logistics/supply chain integration and logistics/supply chain performance indicators.

The application of analytical techniques to selected aspects of logistics systems is explored in the course.

Mathematical models in these areas will be discussed in terms of their ability to represent the problem and usefulness to the managers and practitioners.

Case studies will be used to demonstrate the nature of decision-making problems managers and practitioners face in logistics and supply chain management in contemporary business environment.

Learning outcomes

  • Analyse and apply the theories and practices of logistics systems in logistics management
  • Formulate and propose supply chain and logistics systems solutions to improve the management of logistics and supply management
  • Implement mathematical models to solve problems in logistics in contemporary business environment
  • Critically reflect your proposed supply chain and logistics solutions in communicating with relevant stakeholders. 

Course overview

This course evaluates the practice of project management and the role of the project manager.

The curriculum prepares you to work in industry where delivering new products, processes and introducing change is facilitated via a project-based environment.

The processes, techniques and tools that you will examine are multi-disciplinary and are leveraged across a wide range of industry sectors.

You will use these processes, techniques and tools to develop a project proposal as part of a team.

You will also critically appraise industry practice using project management standards, substantiating your recommendations with relevant research.

Learning outcomes

  • Evaluate and use tools, techniques and processes to solve project management problems
  • Critically appraise projects using industry standards and methods
  • Devise a project proposal in collaboration with team members in response to client requirements
  • Substantiate recommendations for enhancing project performance using relevant research. 

Get more information about what you will learn in each of these courses.

Admissions requirements

To be eligible for the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management you must have:

  • Successfully completed an Australian Bachelor degree, or higher-level qualification, in any discipline from a recognised tertiary institution*

If you do not meet the above entry requirement for the Graduate Certificate, you may be considered if you have a minimum of 5 years of full-time equivalent work experience.

To have your professional experience considered you must include in your application:

  • A CV
  • A statement that details your experience

*If your qualification was completed more than 10 years ago you will need to provide evidence of ongoing professional work and/or professional development in the same discipline as the program for which you are seeking entry.

You must meet the University’s minimum English language requirements for postgraduate coursework programs to be eligible for a place in this program.

Upon successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management you will be eligible to continue your studies in the following programs with 48 credit points (4 courses) worth of credit:

Applicants who have completed or partially completed a similar program at another institution (with entry criteria similar to this program) may be granted some credits or exemptions towards this degree.

Credit and exemptions will be assessed consistent with the principles of the RMIT Credit Policy.

RMIT assesses each student’s prior learning and qualifications to grant credit so you can complete your online postgraduate degree sooner. Your application will be decided on a case-by-case basis. RMIT aims to grant as much credit as possible at the time of offer, so it’s important to provide as much evidence of prior study and work experience as possible with your application.

To be eligible for the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management you must have:

  • Successfully completed an Australian Bachelor degree, or higher level qualification, in any discipline from a recognised tertiary institution*

If you do not meet the above entry requirement for the Graduate Certificate, you may be considered if you have a minimum of 5 years of full-time equivalent work experience.

To have your professional experience considered you must include in your application:

  • A CV
  • A statement that details your experience

All non-Australian residents and overseas full-fee paying students are required to meet RMIT English language requirements and are required to provide current evidence of English language proficiency for admission to RMIT University (see English language requirements below).

*If your qualification was completed more than 10 years ago you will need to provice evidence of ongoing professional work and/or professional development in the same discipline as the program for which you are seeking entry.

To study this course you will need to complete one of the following English proficiency tests:

  • IELTS (Academic): minimum overall band of 6.5 (with no individual band below 6.0)
  • TOEFL (Internet Based Test - IBT): minimum overall score of 79 (with minimum of 13 in Reading, 12 in Listening, 18 in Speaking and 21 in Writing)
  • Pearson Test of English (Academic) (PTE (A)): minimum score of 58 (with no communication band less than 50)
  • Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): minimum of 176 with no less than 169 in any component.

For detailed information on English language requirements and other proficiency tests recognised by RMIT, visit English language requirements and equivalency information.

Don't meet the English language test scores? Complete an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Advanced Plus at RMIT University Pathways (RMIT UP).

RMIT’s Online Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management does not meet Australian student visa requirements. For an Australian student visa, you must have an on-campus place in a program of study. 

Upon successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics Management you will be eligible to continue your studies in the following programs with 48 credit points (4 courses) worth of credit:

Applicants who have completed or partially completed a similar program at another institution (with entry criteria similar to this program) may be granted some credits or exemptions towards this degree.

Credit and exemptions will be assessed consistent with the principles of the RMIT Credit Policy.

RMIT assesses each student’s prior learning and qualifications to grant credit so you can complete your online postgraduate degree sooner. Your application will be decided on a case-by-case basis. RMIT aims to grant as much credit as possible at the time of offer, so it’s important to provide as much evidence of prior study and work experience as possible with your application.

Fee summary

2025 indicative fees

In 2025, the annual student contribution amount (tuition fee) you will pay for the standard year of full-time study in the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics is:

  • AU$4,200 per course
  • Total AU$16,800^ for 4 courses

Additional expenses

  • Student services and amenities fee (SSAF): AU$365 maximum fee for 2025
  • Other items related to your program, including field trips, textbooks and equipment.

^Fees typically increase each year and may change without notice. Total fees are estimates and should only be used as a guide.

Paying your fees and applying for refunds

For information on how to apply for a deferral, withdrawal or refund please see deferrals and withdrawals.

In addition to tuition fees, you will be charged an annual student services and amenities fee (SSAF), which is used to maintain and enhance services and amenities that improve your experience as an RMIT student.

The SSAF is calculated based on your enrolment load and the maximum fee for 2025 is AU$365.

You may also be required to purchase other items related to your program, including field trips, textbooks, and equipment. These additional fees and expenses vary from program to program. Find out more about calculating your actual SSAF.

FEE-HELP loans

Some students may be eligible to apply to defer payment of some or all of their tuition fees via the Commonwealth Government’s FEE-HELP loan scheme. FEE-HELP is for eligible full-fee paying students and allows you to defer payment of your tuition fees to the Australian Tax Office up to your HELP limit.

SA-HELP loans

You may be eligible to apply to defer payment of the student services and amenities fee (SSAF) through the SA-HELP loan scheme. If you use SA-HELP, the amount will be added to your accumulated HELP debt.

How does a HELP loan work?

If your FEE-HELP and/or SA-HELP loan application is successful, the Australian Government will pay RMIT, on your behalf, up to 100% of your fees. This amount will become part of your accumulated HELP debt.

You only start repaying your accumulated HELP debt to the Australian Government once you earn above the minimum income threshold for repayment, which is set each year by the Australian Government (this also applies if you are still studying.) 

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will calculate your compulsory repayment for the year and include this on your income tax notice. For more information about loan repayment options see Commonwealth assistance (HELP loans) or Study Assist. 

Visit our HELP loans page for lots of useful information about eligibility, how to apply and payment. You can apply for FEE-HELP once you have enrolled in a degree.

HELP loans are not available to international students.

2025 indicative fees

In 2025, the annual student contribution amount (tuition fee) you will pay for the standard year of full-time study in the Graduate Certificate in Supply Chain and Logistics is:

  • AU$4,200 per course
  • Total AU$16,800^ for 4 courses

Additional expenses

  • Student services and amenities fee (SSAF): AU$365 maximum fee for 2025
  • Other items related to your program, including field trips, textbooks and equipment.

^Fees typically increase each year and may change without notice. Total fees are estimates and should only be used as a guide.

Paying your fees and applying for refunds

For information on how to apply for a deferral, withdrawal or refund please see deferrals and withdrawals.

In addition to tuition fees, you will be charged an annual student services and amenities fee (SSAF), which is used to maintain and enhance services and amenities that improve your experience as an RMIT student.

The SSAF is calculated based on your enrolment load and the maximum fee for 2025 is AU$365.

You may also be required to purchase other items related to your program, including field trips, textbooks, and equipment. These additional fees and expenses vary from program to program. Find out more about calculating your actual SSAF.

Learn with industry experts

Program Manager – Professor Paul Childerhouse

Paul heads up the supply chain and logistics department at RMIT University. His current research focuses on supply chain network resilience and sustainability. Supply chain sustainability has become a major area of focus with several studies into the transformation of food supply chains in Southeast Asia and New Zealand. Paul has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in a multitude of journals. 

Program Manager – Priyabrata Chowdhury

Dr Priyabrata Chowdhury is a Senior Lecturer of Supply Chain Management at the School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain (AISSC) at RMIT University. Priyabrata researches contemporary supply chain issues to guide businesses in developing resilient and sustainable supply chains. His research interests include supply chain risk and disruption management, supply chain resilience, supply chain sustainability, and talent management in supply chains.

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