Description
Achieve Supply Chain Mastery
Master agile, resilient, and digitized supply chain systems with our innovative professional certificate.
- Program Overview
Fast-paced globalization, accelerating technological innovations and greater customer expectations are impacting supply chain excellence. Agility, resilience, and digitization are core competencies to mitigate risks and disruptions that shake today’s business operations.
The Supply Chain Management Professional Certificate provides a holistic approach to business model alignment, strategic priorities, and organizational capabilities. The certificate helps participants meet the shifting requirements occurring in domestic and global supply chains – such as the demands brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the program, participants will be exposed to the different perspectives of supply chain design: from supply chains as systems, digital opportunities, and challenges to the development of human capital in supply chains.
By the end of the program, participants will be able to challenge the status quo and build a competitive supply chain functional structure and process model aligned with corporate strategy, organizational structure, and other influencing factors.
- Key Benefits
Set functional supply chain strategy in line with the corporate strategy, competitive strategies, market needs, operating experience, and other internal and external factors
Design supply chain infrastructure, organizational structure, process flow, systems, and process technologies
Apply all supply chain processes, design scorecards, and manage performances using the best-fit improvement philosophy and methodology
Develop an understanding of techniques that positively influence the company’s financial statements and customer experience
Implement the digital and technological solutions across the three supply chain flows; cash, information, and material
Classify the product/service supply chain as either lean or agile models
Transform the existing supply chain system into a resilient digitized model - Who Should Attend?
Supervisors, middle and senior managers in the supply chain domain (services or manufacturing)
Supervisors and managers seeking career shift to the supply chain domain - Program Outline
A. Core Courses
Supply Chain Strategy and Design (24 hrs)
This course takes a holistic approach to ensure the alignment of business models, strategic priorities, and organizational capabilities with the configuration of the firm’s supply chain
The course integrates the four perspectives of supply chain design, supply chains as systems, digital opportunities, and challenges, and finally development of human capital in supply chains
Supply Chain Planning and Execution (30 hrs)
This course focuses on delivering inclusive integrated practical knowledge about end-to-end supply chain functions and processes
The course inspires participants to challenge the status quo and build state of the art supply chain functional structure and process model aligned with the corporate strategy, organizational structure, and other factors
Supply Chain Finance (18 hours)
This course is designed to equip participants with the needed knowledge of finance and financial statements relevant to the supply chain
The aim of this course is to enable participants to identify, analyze, and critically assess the company’s management of the key components and elements of working capital and how it should be financed
Supply Chain Excellence (24 hours)
This course focuses on equipping participants with hands-on models and methodologies to rank existing supply chain networks and processes contributing to top and bottom-line improvements
Participants will learn to design agile and efficient supply chains mitigating relevant risks and disruptions
Supply Chain Finance (18 hrs)
This course is designed to equip participants with the needed knowledge of finance and financial statements relevant to the supply chain.
The aim of this course is to enable participants to identify, analyze, and critically assess the company’s management of the key components and elements of working capital and how it should be financed.
Supply Chain Excellence (24 hrs)
This course focuses on equipping participants with hands-on models and methodologies to rank existing supply chain networks and processes contributing to top and bottom-line improvements.
Participants will learn to design agile and efficient supply chains mitigating relevant risks and disruptions
Quality and Continuous Improvement (24 hrs)
This course provides a comprehensive overview of quality management principles, tools, and methodologies. Participants will learn about the evolution of quality concepts, problem-solving techniques, and continuous improvement models such as TQM, Six Sigma, and Lean.
The course also covers strategy deployment, assessment, and gap analysis to help organizations enhance their quality and continuous improvement efforts.
B. Business Acumen (Self-Paced Online) - One course
Effectively operating within a business setting and making a positive impact requires a certain set of skills and competencies. Explore critical 21st-century skills needed for today’s business world, enabling passion and speed in dealing with different business situations.
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