Level: Master
Start date: Autumn 2025
City: Jönköping
Credits: 120 credits
Degree: Degree of Master of Science (120 credits) with a major in Production Systems specialisation in Supply Chain Operations Management
JU Direct Application (recommended), application period: 2024-10-15 - 2025-05-02
For those who apply through universityadmissions.se, application period: 2024-10-15 – 2025-01-15

About the programme:

This programme prepares you for operations management in supply chain contexts. The interdisciplinary approach of this program offers unique opportunities to learn, practice, and gain appropriate knowledge and skills to manage integrated systems in directing, designing and developing sustainable operations for network-based delivery of products and services.

Throughout your education, you will gain extensive experience in problem-based learning where real-life issues are incorporated, requiring constant application of communication and presentation skills to perform in various decision-making constellations. Graduates will be highly skilled engineers, knowledgeable about supply chains and operations of the future with the ability to maneuver within a sustainable, complex, digitalised, global system as operations managers, industrial engineers, or supply chain managers.

The programme is conducted at School of Engineering
Credits: 120 credits
Level: Master
Language: English
Rate of study: 100%
City: Jönköping
Place of study: Normal teaching
Start date: Autumn 2025
Selection: JU Direct Application: Admission is done continuously. For those who apply through universityadmissons.se: Selection is based on previous academic merits. Ranking is made in descending order.
Requirements: The applicant must hold the minimum of a bachelor’s degree (i.e the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits at an accredited university) in engineering or technology. The bachelor’s degree should comprise a minimum of 15 credits in mathematics. Proof of English proficiency is required.
Application code: HJ-MU139
Degree: Degree of Master of Science (120 credits) with a major in Production Systems specialisation in Supply Chain Operations Management
Tuition fee: For the first semester: 85000 SEK
Total tuition fee: 340000 SEK

Tuition fees do NOT apply for EU/EEA citizens or exchange students

Graduates will be highly skilled engineers with extensive knowledge on supply chains and operations of the future markets, with the ability to maneuver within a sustainable, complex, digitalized, global system as operations managers, industrial engineers, or supply chain managers. Further, graduates will be equipped with academic know-how in conducting research, managing projects, and collaborating effectively in interdisciplinary settings. This shall create suitability to be employed by research institutes, universities and within research and development functions.

Year 1

Introduction to Supply Chain Operations Management, 7.5 credits

Advanced Research Methods in Supply Chain Operations Management, 7.5 credits

Operations Strategy and Innovation, 7.5 credits

Designing Supply Chain Operations, 7.5 credits

 

Deliver: Strategy, Planning and Operations, 7.5 credits

Leading Sustainable Operations, 7.5 credits

Developing Sustainable Supply Chain Operations, 7.5 credits

Leading Advanced Technical Systems, 7.5 credits

 

Year 2

Elective courses, 30 credits, choosing among several different tracks:

Lean track: Lean and Six Sigma for Sustainable Operations, 15 credits

Product Realization track: Project Course, 15 credits

Research track: Industrial Placement in Supply Chain Operations Management, 7.5 credits and In-depth Project Work in Supply Chain Operations Management, 7.5 credits

Business Administration track: Entrepreneuring: Person and Process, 7.5 credits and Entrepreneuring: Creating a New Venture, 7.5 credits

Product and Production development track: Integrated Product Realization, 7.5 credits, and Integrated Product and Production Development, 7.5 credits or Automation and Production Technology, 7.5 credits

 

Final Project Work in Production Systems, 30 credits

A substantial part of the studies is done as projects addressing real industrial problems in different types of organizations. Several courses include field trips and guest speakers from the industry to further strengthen the link between education and practice.

The third semester offers the opportunity to follow an elective research track where the student combines an industrial placement with participation in a senior research project.

The second year provides a unique opportunity for the students to tailor their own specific competence profile by taking elective courses at our international campuses or partner universities. JU and the School of Engineering collaborates with several partner universities and offer a number of international campuses.

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