Business & Administration
The Supply Chain Assistant programme is a structured professional vocational training programme aligned with professional standards, workplace procedures, and real logistics and distribution practice. The programme is designed to develop practical professional competence in supply operations, stock control, order processing, documentation, coordination, and safe working practices. Training is organised into progressive blocks that combine classroom instruction, supervised practical work, guided exercises, and formal assessment. The published programme structure, curriculum, and learning outcomes support institutional documentation, competence verification, and external or international review.
Individuals seeking formal vocational qualification and documented competence in supply chain support, logistics coordination, inventory operations, and order administration.
Practitioners with practical experience who want to systematise skills, close competence gaps, and validate professional capability through structured training and assessment.
Employees of companies, warehouses, distributors, retailers, and service providers who require documented proof of competence for career development, compliance, tendering, or professional progression.
Apply occupational safety requirements, workplace hygiene rules, and safe goods-handling procedures in logistics and warehouse environments.
Interpret purchase orders, delivery schedules, stock records, receiving documents, dispatch documents, and internal supply documentation.
Use inventory control methods, storage principles, and stock movement procedures to support accurate warehouse and distribution operations.
Perform order processing, receiving, picking, packing, labelling, and dispatch support tasks according to workplace procedures and quality standards.
Identify stock discrepancies, damaged goods, documentation errors, and process non-conformities, and apply appropriate corrective actions or escalation procedures.
Maintain accurate operational records, stock logs, receipt and dispatch documentation, and routine reports required for traceability and control.
Communicate effectively with supervisors, warehouse personnel, transport representatives, suppliers, and customers within the scope of supply chain support functions.
Complete practical supply chain tasks within the occupational scope of training in accordance with workplace procedures, safety requirements, and quality standards.
Instructional time
Total: 480 academic hours (Theory 180, Practice 240, Independent study 40, Final assessment 20).
Issued documents
Assessment
Assessment includes continuous assessment through tests, practical tasks, documentation exercises, and workshop performance, together with a final practical examination that evaluates occupational competence against programme requirements.
Prerequisites
Basic literacy and numeracy, readiness for structured practical training, ability to follow occupational safety requirements and workplace procedures, and willingness to work accurately with records, goods, and operational documentation. Prior professional experience is not mandatory.
Training format
Competence-based vocational training delivered through classroom theory, supervised practical workshops, guided exercises, technical tasks, case-based logistics simulations, documentation practice, and formal assessment.