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Portfolio: Analytics
Applied Analytics: Essential Tools and Techniques
Understanding how to transform data into actionable insights is increasingly important at ALL levels of an organization, whether you are making everyday decisions or informing future strategic plans. However, many decision makers lack awareness of commonly used analytics tools and techniques that can base these decisions in information and data. This course introduces students to methods for applying descriptive (What happened?), predictive (What might happen?), and prescriptive (What should we make happen?) analytics techniques to various business and operational challenges. Over four half-days, students will practice combining business data, common software tools, and various modeling and analysis techniques to quickly gain insights about operational performance, predict future outcomes, and develop optimal courses of action for business problems that might otherwise have gone unnoticed or have been deemed too challenging to approach.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management Analytics
Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics
Supply chain optimization requires the ability to mine, process and analyze data, but the tools and turnaround times are increasingly complex, demanding, and often overwhelming. Breakthrough the confusion by mastering the foundational theories, exploring the tools, and connecting data to organizational impact. This 'how to' course includes relevant case studies, interactive discussions and Excel-based exercises—all with the focus on improving supply chains through data analysis.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management Analytics
Supply Chain Security and Risk Management
Learn a practical process for achieving optimal decisions using established principles of intelligence analysis and risk assessment. Through examining models of supply chain security, you will recognize the advantage of producing intelligence as an analysis of data, geography, and business operating procedures.
Portfolio: Analytics
Introduction to Analytics: Transforming Data into Insights
In today’s increasingly complex business world, critical decisions can become ‘shots in the dark’ unless informed by relevant data. However, applications and software produce an overwhelming abundance of data that can make it challenging to focus on answers to critical questions. To effectively leverage data, organizations need to transform it into actionable information, yet many are struggling to do that. This course introduces a repeatable process you can use to ensure you’re getting the most out of your data. Over the three-day series, you’ll learn how to transform data into robust information to be leveraged in a variety of ways to support your success. You will have the opportunity to practice this process through hands-on exercises led by Penn State, reinforced by interactive discussions with peers, ensuring that the course learnings are practical and applicable to your business setting.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success
Through the lens of the SCOR® (Supply Chain Operations Reference) Model, participants will become familiar with tools, techniques, and approaches to define, analyze, and implement improvements for each major function and process area.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Forecasting and Inventory Management
Equip yourself to generate more accurate forecasts, set appropriate inventory levels, and monitor and improve forecasting and inventory management over time. Explore the impact of inflated inventory levels, diagnose process constraints, and leverage techniques to improve inventory performance.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Achieving Supply Chain Transformation
From business strategy formulation to supply chain design and execution, this program provides operating models and tools for supply chain transformation resulting in improved organizational performance and positive financial results. Learn how to weigh priorities for innovation and strike a balance of trade-offs to optimize the supply chain. Throughout the session, participants will develop personal leadership goals and identify means toward implementation.
Portfolio: Analytics
Leading With Analytics: Foundations of Analytic Decision Making
Analytics is the combination of science and art that allows organizations to transform data into actionable insights to enable effective decision-making. With increasing amounts of data available to organizational leaders, it can be challenging to generate and apply the ‘right’ information to business and organizational challenges. Learn tools and methods that leaders can apply to real-world problems using data to: determine what happened – assess what might happen – prescribe what should happen.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Aligning Supply Chain Organizations
Your complex supply chain relies on alignment in three critical areas to facilitate success: 1) between the supply chain and strategic objectives, 2) between function and process areas within the supply chain, and 3) between the organization and its suppliers and partners. Learn how to coordinate initiatives so that your enterprise functions seamlessly in service of the ultimate judge—your customers.
Portfolio: Leadership and Strategy
The Execution Challenge: Turning Strategy Into Action
Creating a strategy is straightforward, but executing it is where many organizations stumble. Learn how to bridge the gap between strategy and execution with a proven framework for success in this companion course to The Execution Challenge: Delivering Great Strategy at Scale. Ideal for those who have read the book and those who have not, this program dives deep into key concepts with hands-on practice, case studies, and real-world examples. Through these activities, you will learn how to effectively use this unique approach to inform, translate, plan, and align strategy execution efforts within your team or organization.
Portfolio: Leadership and Strategy
Strategic Leadership
Prepare to lead transformational change in your organization. Develop the perspective to lead strategically by assessing your opportunities in the competitive environment, developing and implementing strategy with a focus on a constantly changing future, and aligning your organization around the fundamental pillars of strategy, leadership, and culture.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Fulfillment Operations Management
This program provides a primary understanding of end-to-end fulfillment operations within firms, from forecast development through successful delivery to customers. Basic terminology and underlying processes will be identified and explained, and best practices will be integrated to highlight effective fulfillment management. Quantitative techniques will be introduced to identify the financial or cost implications of fulfillment decisions.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Transportation Operations and Sourcing
Acquire foundational understanding, learn common terminology, and discover methods to effectively manage and optimize transportation operations. Learn how to analyze freight needs and competitively source carriers and third-party providers to improve service levels and reduce transportation costs.
Portfolio: Leadership and Strategy
Communication Strategy for Leaders
Today’s workplace offers a complex variety of modes through which leaders communicate critical concepts, ideas, and strategic messages. This program will help you explore effective strategies for communicating strategic vision up, down, and across the organization, with particular focus on leading across generations.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Transportation Operations and Sourcing
Acquire foundational understanding, learn common terminology, and discover methods to effectively manage and optimize transportation operations. Learn how to analyze freight needs and competitively source carriers and third-party providers to improve service levels and reduce transportation costs.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Fulfillment Operations Management
This program provides a primary understanding of end-to-end fulfillment operations within firms, from forecast development through successful delivery to customers. Basic terminology and underlying processes will be identified and explained, and best practices will be integrated to highlight effective fulfillment management. Quantitative techniques will be introduced to identify the financial or cost implications of fulfillment decisions.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Forecasting and Inventory Management
Equip yourself to generate more accurate forecasts, set appropriate inventory levels, and monitor and improve forecasting and inventory management over time. Explore the impact of inflated inventory levels, diagnose process constraints, and leverage techniques to improve inventory performance.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management Analytics
Supply Chain Security and Risk Management
Learn a practical process for achieving optimal decisions using established principles of intelligence analysis and risk assessment. Through examining models of supply chain security, you will recognize the advantage of producing intelligence as an analysis of data, geography, and business operating procedures.