Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
This programme (MASC) has been developed by Audencia in collaboration with the Compagnie des Dirigeants et Acheteurs de France (CDAF Association) and several major companies of reference such as Airbus, and STX Europe.
The aim is to provide companies will managers who respond to the profile sought by employers. To achieve this, we draw on the expertise of the Purchasing and Supply Chain Pole supported by the CDAF and the partner companies.

Whas does the Master MASC offer?
- a programme in three parts
- high level internship offers and professional theses
- input from expert managers experts (see manager profiles )
- a programme of seminars on best practices
- effective career and alumni network management
What career after the programme?
- Purchasing and supply manager: management of purchasing decisions such as choice of partners, contracts, re-negotiation. Overseeing of suppliers’ operational performance (reliability, delivery timing, etc).
- Logistics manager: organisation of the flow of physical goods and information, in the areas of supply, production or distribution, in a perspective of cost control and improvement of both the service and customer satisfaction.
- Supply chain manager: develops a strategic and global vision of value creation. Heads transversal projects on a basis of a flexible and reactive organisation by externalising or utilising information systems.
More junior posts (buyer, site logistics head, logistics project manager, consultant) as ell as senior positions (Group logistics director, Purchasing director, etc).
Which sectors are most concerned?
Industry, wholesale distribution, organisational consulting, transport and logistics, humanitarian organisations ; etc
The master MASC benefits from a double accreditation: that of the Conference of Grandes Ecoles at a national level and that of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) which is an international reference in the area of purchasing and supply chain management. The master also has an exclusive partnership with the CDAF.


