Online & On-Campus Open Enrollment Courses
Program Schedule
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Essentials of Supply Chain Management
Learn the critical foundational concepts required to lead an integrated supply chain operation. Develop common performance metrics, improve customer satisfaction, maximize capital turnover and enhance alliances and partnerships. An industry case study and team-based simulation will provide a hands-on learning opportunity.
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 & 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
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
Strategic Procurement and Purchasing
Acquire a foundational understanding of managing and optimizing procurement and supplier management. You will learn basic principles of purchasing and develop strategies in supplier negotiations impacted by economic and regulatory issues.
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
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: 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 in 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
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: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics
Learn functional analytic techniques to evaluate logistics and supply chain performance. Discover critical data interpretation methods and apply the information to improve logistics and supply chain performance. The course will focus on hands-on learning, and excel-based approaches for cleaning and analyzing data.
Portfolio: Analytics
Leading With Analytics
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: Architecting Strategy Execution Leadership & 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
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: Architecting Strategy Execution Leadership & Strategy
Architecting Strategy for Effective Execution
This short course explores the development and application of a unique, holistic approach to leveraging the “business architecture” of an organization to produce the common understanding of the organization that is needed to align strategic objectives and tactical initiatives. You will explore how value streams and capabilities form the foundation of a business architecture – and how that architecture can either support or inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve goals. This practice has been used effectively in leading organizations to “bridge the gap” between enterprise or business unit strategy and successful execution.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Developing Strategic Supply Chain Leaders
Learn how to orchestrate supply chain speed, flexibility, and competitive differentiation. Develop a more innovative supply chain and get teams throughout your organization working toward the same goals.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Leading for Results: Strategic Financial Management
It is critical for leaders to understand how business decisions impact financial results and how constraints shape business decisions. All too often, operational leaders and strategic decision-makers are siloed from their counterparts in finance. This program focuses on connecting business decisions with their financial consequences and views finance as an operational element of a successful organization. As you gain familiarity with the tools and techniques of managerial accounting, you will begin to deploy finance to empower your business decisions
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Introduction to Supply Chain Analytics
Learn functional analytic techniques to evaluate logistics and supply chain performance. Discover critical data interpretation methods and apply the information to improve logistics and supply chain performance. The course will focus on hands-on learning, and excel-based approaches for cleaning and analyzing data.
Portfolio: Leadership & 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
Essentials of Supply Chain Management
Learn the critical foundational concepts required to lead an integrated supply chain operation. Develop common performance metrics, improve customer satisfaction, maximize capital turnover and enhance alliances and partnerships. An industry case study and team-based simulation will provide a hands-on learning opportunity.
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
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: Architecting Strategy Execution Leadership & Strategy
Applied Strategy Execution
This module helps leaders gain a deep understanding of business architecture tools and how your organization can use them to support robust decision-making across your enterprise strategy execution efforts. It explains and demonstrates tools for execution - and allows no-risk practice opportunities as leaders consider how to effectively use this new approach to inform, translate, plan, and align strategy within your organization. This program is also ideal for teams of leaders seeking to collaborate in new ways as you address your unique organization’s unique circumstances. Contact us for team discounts or private cohort opportunities.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Leadership & Management
Building a Sustainable Supply Chain
Sustainability in the supply chain provides a win-win for every organization—it’s good for the environment and for profitability. This program will equip you with the latest tools, concepts, and business practices for managing an environmentally and economically sustainable supply chain.
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.