Short Course Schedule
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.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Strategic Leadership
Prepare to lead transformational change in your organization. Develop the perspective to assess your competitive environment and opportunities, develop strategy and turn it into action, build your team and improve communication.
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.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Leveraging Unique NFL Work Competencies: A Penn State & NAPSA Intensive Training Program
Leveraging Unique NFL Work Competencies: A Penn State & NAPSA Intensive Training Program™ provides an accelerated transition to gainful employment and career occupations. This new and innovative 3-month foundational program (with 3 days of in-residence engagement at Penn State, University Park) is based on the National Athletic and Professional Success Academy (NAPSA) High Impact Performance (HIP) Curriculum™. Sessions reveal and develop the competencies (skills and knowledge) to help participants excel in professional business environments.
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.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
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.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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 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
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
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 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: 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.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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: 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.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
Strategic Leadership
Prepare to lead transformational change in your organization. Develop the perspective to assess your competitive environment and opportunities, develop strategy and turn it into action, build your team and improve communication.
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.
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.
Portfolio: Leadership & Strategy
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.
Portfolio: Supply Chain 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 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 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 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.