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Curriculum

MA in Logistics and Global Supply Chain

  • ​Focus on supply chain: This includes courses on global logistics such as logistical project management; supply management; management of international acquisition and financing systems; advanced topics in supply chain; and more.
  • Specialization in maritime logistics: This includes courses such as seamanship and ports; ports in global logistics; sustainable management of the marine environment; shipping cargo in a transportation network; trade processes and international shipping; the European Union as a trade partner; and more.
  • In addition, students can select from general elective courses (if scheduling permits) from the MBA program, such as international business management and managing negotiations in a communal world and even participate in the course on maritime law that is offered within the framework of the MA program in marine resource management instead of taking some of the courses that are defined as electives in the program. 

​Special Courses 

  • The European Union as a Trade Partner: This course examines Israel’s trade agreements with international trade blocs, with an emphasis on the European Union. In this framework, students play a simulation game that recreates the negotiating system between states in order to formulate suitable trade agreements.
  • Shipping and Ports and Global Logistics: This course is based on the principal of analyzing case studies in working groups in which the students must find the optimal logistical system between the producer and the exporter in Israel (or the reverse) and estimate the various costs this entails. In addition, each of the students analyzes a specific topic related to shipping and ports.
  • Marine Resource Management: Students in this course learn about the flora and fauna of the sea, while swimming with snorkels and via observations in labs and ponds of fish and sea turtles at the campus for marine sciences at Michmoret. The course concludes with lectures on the damage that ships and ports cause and how to prevent this damage.
  • Workshop on Port Operations and Supply Chain: This course includes a trip abroad to one of the world’s major ports, logistical centers, and large factories. So far, there have been tours to the port of Antwerp, Belgium, and the industrial zone and inland port of Duisberg, Germany, as well as to the port of Hong Kong and the port of Shenzhen in China. 
  • Study trips to the sophisticated seaport in Rotterdam, Holland, and the industrial and logistic facilities around it as well as to the huge industrial compound in Duisberg, Germany. On the study tour, students are introduced to the most sophisticated methods of operation used around the world and hear lectures from international experts. At the end of the course, students complete a work that deals with one of  the topics that arose during the study tour.

​Final Project

In the final semester of studies, students complete a final project. In the project, they propose a solution to a problem in the field of supply chain while using cutting-edge knowledge of logistics and operation that require skills, knowledge, and tools that were acquired throughout studies in the program. Most of the final project is done in cooperation with and under the guidance of industry figures along with the academic supervision of the faculty.