Graduates' Qualification Profile

Exceptional management of the procurement, production and delivery of a firm’s products and services – its supply chain – is an essential part of modern business life. With the forthcoming Master of Science in Supply Chain Management WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) prepares graduates to stand out in this challenging and critically important career field. 

The curriculum – grounded in proven theory and methodology, best practices and emerging innovative techniques – enables students to chart their career path in the supply chain process from managing information technology enabled logistics to crafting supply chain strategy. Graduates will be prepared to design and lead the future’s most effective supply chains.

Career Prospects

Graduates of the Master’s program are qualified to be tomorrow’s experts in the increasingly complex world of supply chains, including supply chain strategy/controlling/planning, business process excellence, inventory management, lean/green supply chain management, manufacturing and logistics, sourcing and purchasing, sales and after sales services, or enterprise resource planning.

If your ambition is an academic and/or a research career you will achieve the necessary qualifications to succeed in this dynamic and challenging field.

What You Will Learn

Students learn a mix of theoretical, methodological and empirical research to get a good understanding of the fundamental questions and problems in the field, both from a transdisciplinary perspective as well as from the view of different types of focal companies (manufacturers and suppliers, shippers and carriers, and retailers). At the completion of the Master's program attendees will become thoroughly familiar with

  • the design and analysis of logistics processes, the related information and financial flows in supply chains and transportation networks in general, and
  • the design of supply chain strategies, the management and optimization of global supply chains and their coordination in particular.

This will include the abilities to

  • solve supply chain related complex decision problems in a globalizing world by applying appropriate methods, techniques and software tools,
  • measure, evaluate and control the quality of supply chain processes with suitable performance management systems,
  • analyze and manage supply chains for different types of focal companies.