Online & On-Campus Open Enrollment Courses
Short Course Schedule
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 7-8:30am and 9:30-11am Eastern.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 9-10:30am and 1:30-3pm Eastern.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 9-10:30am and 1:30-3pm Eastern.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 9-10:30am and 1:30-3pm Eastern.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 7-8:30pm and 9:30-11pm Eastern.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Accelerator
Supply Chain Reinvention - Finding more Value in your Organization
Enhance your capacity for building alignment and collaboration as you learn a powerful methodology for leading contemporary supply chain organizations. Reflect on the people, processes, and technology that impact the supply chain and discuss potential areas for improving the synergy between them. Investigate the change leadership necessary to move your supply chain capabilities forward and ahead of your competitors.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Accelerator
Advanced Procurement - Analyzing Costs Using Total Cost of Ownership
As Drucker famously shared, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” Total Cost of Ownership provides a bottom-line focus for procurement practices and analysis tools to track the outcomes of decisions like supplier selection and supply chain design over time. This series will help participants understand TCO best practices and develop their own framework within their organizations.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 7-8:30pm and 9:30-11pm Eastern.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Accelerator
Procurement - Improvement, Strategy and Managing Risk
More than just a source of competitive advantage, research shows us the critical role a firm’s procurement practices can play in its very survival. Our procurement track is designed to help supply chain professionals eliminate blind spots among suppliers, to identify exposure to risk, and to craft strategies and practices to both reduce risk and leverage opportunities to a firm’s advantage.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Accelerator
Project Management - Leading Successful Projects
Today’s projects are becoming increasingly difficult to execute. They require the input, cooperation and orchestration of a multitude of different disciplines and functional areas and must often be accomplished with few resources and little time. The ability to plan, schedule and control projects has become an essential leadership capability for all business leaders, not just designated project managers. Project management is no longer a task but a profession. Whether or not it is a formal part your role or included among one’s “other duties as assigned,” it seems that most everyone will manage a project sometime during his or her career. Our Leading Successful Projects track is designed to provide both PM professionals and beginners a thorough understanding of project management principles with a practical orientation, allowing participants to quickly put proven project management concepts to work.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 9-10:30am and 1:30-3pm Eastern
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 9-10:30am and 1:30-3pm Eastern.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Implementing Strategy for Success
(Formerly Leading in Complex Organizations) Develop an integrated approach to strategy implementation and performance management. Build strategic thinking abilities, decision-making acumen, personal leadership qualities, and influencing skills. Maximize management systems to drive organizational performance and growth. *formerly Leading in Complex Organizations
Portfolio: Supply Chain Accelerator
Logistics - Decisions, Opportunities and Optimization
The Logistics track is designed to sharpen your perspective on your transportation and facilities network, taking a critical look at existing strategies in order to uncover opportunities for your organization. An examination of models and processes will enhance your situational awareness of internal and partner processes, and simulation exercises will help you understand the implications of potential changes.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Accelerator
Supply Chain Leadership for Competitive Advantage
The Supply Chain Leadership track will equip you with the tools to recognize and prioritize opportunities, analyze their potential for competitive advantage, understand threats from competitors, and to execute strategies to achieve organizational excellence. Our signature course in both Supply Chain and Leadership combined will develop your confidence to make Supply Chain management a competitive advantage for your organization and maintain that status in the future. Whatever your role or level of experience, we expect that you will find the lessons valuable and applicable to your leadership in the years to come.
Portfolio: Supply Chain Management
Location Intelligence for Supply Chain Security
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: 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: Leadership & Strategy
Finance for Strategic Decision Making
Build your own "financial toolbox" with essential financial analysis tools, sources of financial data, and evaluative processes that can be applied to your specific needs. Learn how your financial decisions affect the performance of your unit and profitability of your organization.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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. These live sessions will be held 9-10:30am and 1:30-3pm Eastern.