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Study business & management online with RMIT University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Future-proof your career with a Bachelor of Business. Delivered 100% online, customise your degree by choosing majors, minors, and courses to develop digital, hybrid skills and tackle the future of work.

Pursue a successful career in business that aligns to your professional aspirations. Complete core business subjects, then choose a major that suits your interests. With final subjects including internship and portfolio, you’ll graduate industry-ready.

Bachelor of Business

A product management qualification for managers and business professionals. Learn to combine business, technology and design know-how to take products from strategy through to delivery.

Learn to manage the entire lifecycle of new or improved digital products. From inception to delivery, drive the team to product success. Get to know product strategy, understand how development and operations work, and explore the customer experience.

Graduate Certificate of Product Management

Accelerate your career with the practical and technical skills to lead and execute a successful digital transformation.

An industry-backed qualification for business professionals. Learn how technology improves processes and productivity. Enhance your customers’ experience. Use data for decision making. Respond to the changing market and improve business outcomes.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Transformation

Transform your career with the service and strategic design skills, knowledge, and tools to deliver exceptional human-centred experiences.

Let your users’ needs guide you as you create and improve digital services. Learn how to conduct research. Get hands on with design processes and tools. Think strategically to solve problems and seek opportunities to improve the customer experience.

Graduate Certificate in Service Design

Transform your career with in-demand digital product design capabilities and lead the delivery of successful digital products. Gain strategic insight into design problems, formulate effective solutions, and drive key product decisions with stakeholders.

In this course, you’ll learn how to craft exceptional digital solutions. Deep dive into the complex needs of online businesses and their customers. With this qualification, you’ll establish yourself as a strategic and effective digital professional.

Graduate Diploma in Digital Product Design

Learn the skills, tools and technical knowledge to retain, engage and manage customers and accelerate your career.

Discover how to find and use valuable data to learn more about your customers. Created in collaboration with industry, students of this course graduate with real world customer management tools including lifecycle maps and communications plans.

Graduate Certificate in Customer Success Management

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Accounting for Business Decisions

In this subject you will explore the role of warehousing in a supply chain. The subject covers how a warehouse provides data on inventory levels throughout the supply chain as well as its role in the preparation and distribution of goods. The subject will focus on how a well-run warehouse can help an organisation to maintain product schedules and avoid supply issues. The subject also covers how distribution channels facilitate the timely delivery of raw materials/inventory to customers.

Examine the roles distribution and warehousing play in a supply chain.
Register the facets that go into warehouse management, from small material handling to administration. Highlight technology's role in maintaining distribution channels.

Warehouse and Distribution Channels

This subject considers supply chain management as a holistic logistics management process across the full spectrum of business activities, from the sourcing of raw materials from suppliers to the delivery of goods and services to the final customers and consumers. The subject provides a synthesis of the many critical facets of supply chain management. You will formulate appropriate strategies to enhance overall efficiency and responsiveness through optimisation of supply network design and logistics operations.This subject includes a Work Integrated Learning experience. You will undertake and be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and demonstrate your professional or vocational practice; and be involved in authentic engagement with partner organisations that include industry feedback. This subject also provides you with a capstone experience, which will provide you with the opportunity to integrate, critically reflect on and consolidate what you have learnt in your program.

Take a bird's eye view of supply chain management and see the process from start to finish.
Examine the theory that goes into designing a distribution network. Learn to measure supply and demand. Formulate ideas that improve supply chain efficiency.

Strategic Supply Chain

This subject provides an understanding of the processes involved in manufacturing industries and service sector and includes a substantial module on designing and managing operations, inventory management, Long-term, Intermediate and short term planning, and quality management. The subject focuses on the relation of systems and technologies to the strategic direction for manufacturing operations and the function of operations planning. 
This subject will equip you with the skills to analyse and apply the essential principles of business logistics. You will develop systematic and critical thinking skills to evaluate logistics and supply chain operations processes. 
This subject provides you with a capstone experience, which will give you the opportunity to integrate, critically reflect on and consolidate what you have learnt in your program.

Critique inventory management and operation design. Compare long-term and short-term planning approaches. Take in teamwork and leadership communication techniques.
Get to know manufacturing industry and service sector processes back-to-front.

Operations Management

This subject is about Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and how enterprise systems fit into business operations. ERP Systems are becoming common in medium to large organisations as it removes the need to have a large number of individual computer-based applications. An ERP system integrates the various applications into a single package, increasing the efficiency of the organisation in delivering goods or services to customers. This subject is therefore viewed as a combination of business management practice and technology.

Find out where enterprise systems fit inside business operations.
Show how enterprise resource planning systems help medium to large organisations streamline their operations. Experiment with SAP software. Predict future enterprise system trends.

Intelligent Enterprise Systems

This subject is intended to provide you with an understanding of the basic microeconomic principles applicable to the transport sector.
It also seeks to develop an understanding of various analytical techniques of managerial economics that facilitate decision-making in the areas of production and costs, demand, pricing, investment and government regulation and intervention in the transport sector.

Apply microeconomic principles to the transport services sector.
Develop the mathematics skills needed to run the costs and benefits of transport investments. Rely on industry software to forecast economic variables that will impact future demand.

Transport Economics

This subject provides an introduction to quantitative methods that can be used in industry. You will acquire advanced spreadsheet and database modelling skills. The subject will introduce static and dynamic models of supply chains and logistics systems. Specifically it will apply transport and transhipment models to optimise supply chains.
The subject will enhance your appreciation of logistics and the usefulness of mathematical and statistical models in solving logistics problems. You will learn to think systematically about the fundamental processes involved and to evaluate the performance of a supply chain as a system. You will also develop your critical thinking skills to the point where you are able to deliberate on contemporary issues in supply chain management.

Optimise logistics and distribution practices using state-of-the-art practices. 
Advance your spreadsheet and database modelling skills. Simulate real supply chain challenges. Wield mathematical and statistical models to work out logistics issues.

Supply Chain Analytics

In this subject you will gain an international strategic perspective on issues that concern the organisation. The subject integrates concepts from other MBA Executive subjects that cover specific areas of operating a business such as marketing, finance, accounting, human resource management and operations management, and uses these insights to provide you with a framework to design solutions to complex business problems and opportunities. The subject covers the evolution of the field of strategy and the need to balance strategy process, content and context.
Drawing on your professional experience you will explore the importance of business ethics including a well-developed ethics of governance regime to help achieve strategic organisational goals in an international business setting.

Tackle the ethical challenges that designing business strategies can raise. Explore corporate issues from an international perspective.Combine your knowledge of business marketing, finance and human resource management and build strategic solutions.

Creating Business Strategies

Financial managers face three types of key decisions: what investments should be made, how investments should be financed and what dividend policy should a firm take. This subject will develop a framework for analysing a firm’s investment, financing and dividend policy decisions, providing concepts and analytical tools that are based on the fundamental principles of modern financial theory.You will examine financial markets and the key financial tools used in managing organisations. You will investigate financial mathematic techniques, the valuation of debt and equity securities, corporate capital budgeting, risk and diversification, efficient market hypothesis, weighted average cost of capital, capital structure theory and dividend policy.

Solve investment and financing problems that can arise within organisations. Study corporate budgeting and risk. Use a framework to critique investment and dividend policy decisions.Invest your time strengthening your financial management knowledge.

Financial Management

The subject builds work-ready skills in marketing within a global context incorporating digital communication and recording tools. You will appreciate these tools as you apply the marketing concepts practically within a collaborative learning network. You will also integrate design thinking and marketing planning, as you develop consumer-centric solutions to marketing problems.
Overall the subject provides knowledge of marketing function and the implementation of marketing tools, techniques and processes to achieve optimal organisational outcomes in the marketplace. You will acquire knowledge and skills in marketing process:
<ol><li>employing empathy in understanding consumers, and employing marketing tools to analyse the external and internal environments</li><li>utilise insights gained to adequately define marketing problems</li><li>employ techniques that facilitate ideation (thinking outside the box)</li><li>strategically design branding, positioning and marketing mix elements (product, price, promotion and distribution) in line with targeted consumer segments</li><li>to prototype, test, implement and amend within a process of metrics and controls.</li></ol>
This subject draws on student experience as managers in industry (including experience operating internationally and locally), and emphasises the importance of marketing management in a business context.

Combine your understanding of marketing planning with design-based thinking. Study the relationship between affordable pricing and product value. Engage in market research. Keep the consumer front of mind when creating solutions to marketing challenges.

This subject provides you with knowledge and skills of the fundamentals of accounting in the financial decision-making process. You will examine the accounting recording and reporting system, and analyse and interpret accounting information to make decisions within an organisation. You will investigate the key measures of financial performance and develop your ability to use accounting data to make informed business decisions. You will learn to prepare a budget, undertake cash flow analysis and learn how to implement basic cost accounting tools. This subject will also introduce sustainability accounting.
This subject draws on student experience as managers in industry (including experience in operating internationally and locally), and emphasises the importance of accounting in a business context.
This subject also emphasises the importance of the practice of sound business ethics as organisations seek to achieve their business goals and objectives.

Add accounting skills and knowledge to your arsenal and use them to inform your business decisions. Run through accounting reporting and recording methods. Zero in on working capital. Explore this study area from the perspective of a business manager.

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