MSc in eBusiness and Supply Chain Management
Department of Operations and Risk Management

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Programme Overview

Programme Overview

 

eBusiness is mainly concerned with the use of information and communication technologies to facilitate information exchange, commercial transactions, and knowledge sharing among interdependent firms, which usually operate in a supply chain network. The 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 programme 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:

  1. Strengthen students’ abilities to understand and use the information technologies that are necessary for supply chain operations in an eBusiness environment;
  2. Equip students with the management strategies for effectively using information technologies to achieve supply chain integration in the international and global context;
  3. Familiarize students with managing online and mobile business operations that are involved in a supply chain;
  4. Expose to students the benefits for an organization through incorporating the Internet into its supply chain operations;
  5. Foster students’ abilities in identifying the business changes resulting from the use of information technologies for organizational practices in supply chains.


Learning Outcomes


This programme focuses on the improvement of students’ management strategies and skills in supply chain operations in the eBusiness context, in addition to the education of information technologies. Accordingly, all teaching staffs in the programme will utilize a number of practical cases and managerial discussions in lecturing their courses. To help students understand the SCM-related issues in eBusiness, we will also encourage students to discuss important cases in class, and have interactive discussions with teachers after class in any convenient ways such as face-to-face talks, telephone conversations, email communications, and others, which are in line with the liberal arts education at Lingnan University.

 

Programme Structure

 

The requirement for the award of the M.Sc. degree is the completion of a total of 30 credits, including 10 courses (6 required and 4 elective). The teaching pattern is normally a 3-hour lecture and/or seminar per week per course.  The normal duration for the M.Sc. programme is one year full-time study, and a student could extend his or her study up to the maximum duration of three years, which is subject to the approval of the Programme Director and the Head of the Department. Students would normally complete four required courses and one elective course in the first term (August to December), and two required courses and three elective courses in the second term (January to May).

 

A student who has passed the public, professional, and other examinations recognized by the University, or has successfully completed a similar course at an appropriate level offered by another tertiary institution, may apply for course exemption. A maximum of two courses (6 credits) are allowed to be exempted. The student has to take another course(s) on the programme to fulfill a total of 30 credits in order to graduate.

 

Programme Curriculum

 

Required Courses

  • CDS501 Fundamentals of Electronic Business
  • CDS502 Supply Chain Management in eBusiness
  • CDS503 Accounting and Financial Technology
  • CDS504 Business Data Analytics
  • CDS505 Mobile Technology and Applications in eBusiness
  • CDS506 Best Practices in eBusiness and Supply Chain Management

 

Elective Courses

  • CDS507 Legal Issues for eBusiness
  • CDS508 Electronic Marketing
  • CDS509 E-Commerce Implementation: Planning, Platform Selection, and Execution
  • CDS510 Social Media for eBusiness
  • CDS511 Project Management with Software
  • CDS512 Service Operations Management
  • CDS513 Purchasing and Logistics Management for eBusiness
  • CDS514 Information Systems Management
  • CDS515 Business Decision Making with Software
  • CDS521 Foundation of Artificial Intelligence
  • CDS527 Big Data Analytics
  • MIB602 Integrated Marketing Communications

The offering of elective courses is subject to sufficient demand and faculty availability.

 

Pre-entry Courses

 

Applicants with no or limited background in information systems management and statistics will be required to complete pre-entry courses in August prior to the start of this master programme. The number of pre-entry courses required to take by an applicant will depend on his/ her undergraduate study.

 

The pre-entry programme includes two courses as listed below:

  • Information Systems Management
  • Statistics

 

Progression


For progression, students are required to achieve a cumulative GPA of 2.50 or above in order to proceed to the next term. Students who cannot meet such GPA requirement will normally be put on academic probation in the following term or discontinued.

 

Graduation

 

To qualify for the award of the Master of Science in eBusiness and Supply Chain Management offered by Lingnan University, students must, where applicable:

  • Complete 10 courses (6 core courses and 4 elective courses) and obtain a minimum of 30 credits;
  • Achieve a minimum CGPA of 2.67; and
  • Fulfil the University exit requirement on English language competency, if applicable; and fulfil all University/programme requirements.
     

A student who fulfils all the requirements for graduation shall be awarded a Master of Science in eBusiness and Supply Chain Management degree.

 

Students will be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in eBusiness and Supply Chain Management if they complete 4 required courses with a minimum CGPA of 2.33, and do not continue in the programme. Acceptance of an intermediate award implies an intention not to complete the final award.