Program Overview

Business with Supply Chain and Project Management with Foundation Year

Overview

This course is designed to prepare students for future business studies, providing a foundation year that develops academic and personal skills, as well as a base level of knowledge in business.

Attendance

• Full-time
• With placement
• Course duration: Four years (five years with placement)

Introduction

The foundation year programme prepares students for future business studies, developing confidence and abilities needed for a successful career. Students will gain a base level of knowledge in business, develop academic and personal skills, and study the fundamental principles of supply chain and project management.

Become Industry Ready

The course focuses on practical and career-focused teaching, with input from industry partners. Students will develop personal skills, such as communication and confidence, alongside practical skills, including business concepts and tools and techniques used in the industry.

Course Accreditations

• Dual accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

Course Details

Foundation Year

• Foundations of Business: Introduces key concepts of business and management, encouraging students to draw on real-life examples.
• Sustainable Business Development: Explores what's involved in starting up a sustainable business, including financing, funding, business formation, planning, business ethics, and sustainability.
• Digital Business: Explains the importance and key elements of digital business, including how digital business ideas drive technology choices.
• Academic and Personal Skills: Develops skills for future studies, including technology, library use, referencing, and academic writing.
• Business Project: Brings together everything learned on the foundation year, working as a team to develop a business idea and pitch it to a panel.

Year One

• Digital and Business Skills: Introduces digital tools for academia and the workplace, including management, collaboration, and teamwork.
• Understanding Organisations: Provides an introduction to the key functions of business, including people management, accounting, marketing, and operations.
• Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making: Introduces systems thinking, providing an approach to examine complex problems and develop holistic solutions.
• Data Analysis for Business: Introduces data analysis methods, practicing on real-world data sets.
• The Future of Business: Explores the opportunities for business in the future, including the impact of massive digitisation and industry 4.0.
• Business Finance in Practice: Provides practical experience of key aspects of business finance, using a business simulation tool.

Year Two

• Professional Development: Enables students to plan and carry out professional development activities to increase employability and performance.
• Operations Management: Enriches knowledge and appreciation of the means required to operationalise and manage the resources of a business.
• Analysis for Management Decision Making: Introduces methods of analysis for management decision making, practicing on real-world data sets.
• Project Management: Takes a detailed look at various aspects of project management, including theoretical approaches, tools, and techniques.
• International Logistics and Distribution Management: Explores managing multiple functions, including demand, procurement, and warehousing.
• Live Project for Business: Students choose one of the following 10-credit module options:
  • Business Intelligence and Dashboards
  • Young Enterprise
  • Legal Aspects of Business
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Business Accounting
  • Contemporary Issues in International Marketing
  • The Digital Workplace
  • Internship

Optional Year

• Professional Placement: Students have the option to do a professional placement year, taking a year in industry to learn in a real-life environment whilst earning a salary and paying no tuition fees.

Year Three

• Business Ethics and Sustainability: Equips students with an appreciation and in-depth understanding of the implications of business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability.
• Supply Chain Management and Digital Transformation: Evaluates the concepts of supply chain management, considering how they strategically connect to company objectives.
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Provides the opportunity to undertake an enterprise project for an internal or external sponsor on a topic of common interest.
• Leadership and Management in Business: Offers a unique in-depth knowledge and understanding of the key practical and theoretical aspects of leadership and management in contemporary organisations.
• Advancements in Project, Operations and Logistics Optimisation (APOLO): Introduces cutting-edge principles and best practices of project management, logistics, and operations.
• Strategic Management: Provides a detailed understanding of business strategy, drawing together knowledge from across the programme and applying it to real-world organisational problems.
• Students choose one of the following 10-credit module options:
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Climate Change and Sustainability in Business
  • Information Security Management
  • Internship
  • Investment Management
  • Technology Innovation

What Will I be Doing?

Through a combination of lectures, seminars, and tutorials, using learning activities such as business simulations, students will develop practical skills and theoretical knowledge.

Assessment

Different assessment techniques are used in different modules, reflecting the types of work students will do after graduating. This may include portfolio work, multiple-choice questions, group reports, and problem-solving questions.

Requirements

• GCSE Maths and English at grade C/grade 4 or above
• 64 UCAS tariff points
• Alternative entry requirements, including the Salford Alternative Entry Scheme (SAES)

Tuition Fees

• Full-time home: £5,760 for Foundation Year and £9,535 for subsequent years (2025/26 and 2026/27)

Additional Costs

• Books, stationery, printing, binding, and general subsistence on trips and visits

Career Links

Studying Business Management with Supply Chain and Project Management at Salford Business School will open opportunities in a wide variety of career paths. Employers we have worked with previously include PwC, EY, Bank of New York Mellon, Beevers & Struthers, the NHS, and Salford City Council.