eBusiness and Supply Chain Management Lingnan University

Overview

he natural connection between eBusiness and supply chain management (SCM) necessitates the M.Sc. Programme in eBusiness and Supply Chain Management, which is offered and managed by the Department of Operations and Risk Management, Faculty of Business, Lingnan University. 

The eBusiness and Supply Chain Management programme from Lingnan University is mainly designed to educate students with information technology (IT) backgrounds about key management strategies and approaches in the eBusiness environment. It also aims to help students with or without IT background understand and utilize the IT for supply chain integration in the international and global context. Growing international focus on the management of supply chain operations in eBusiness and the emergency of related international and global issues indicate the importance and relevance of this programme.

Aims

The programme aims to:

• Strengthen students’ abilities to understand and use the information technologies that are necessary for supply chain operations in an eBusiness environment;
• Equip students with the management strategies for effectively using information technologies to achieve supply chain integration in the international and global context;
• Familiarize students with managing online and mobile business operations that are involved in a supply chain;
• Expose to students the benefits for an organization through incorporating the Internet into its supply chain operations;

• Foster students’ abilities in identifying the business changes resulting from the use of information technologies for organizational practices in supply chains.