Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management
Overview
Courses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success
Through the lens of the SCOR® (Supply Chain Operations Reference) Model, participants will focus on key strategic and operational areas of supply chain management, and examine and critique approaches, tools, and technologies that may contribute to innovation and improvement.
Probably the best executive supply chain course I've ever attended. The right combination of theory, practical implementation, and test cases from industry. Incorporating practitioner speakers was valuable in understanding the importance of these tools and how to implement them in our own companies. The faculty and staff did a great job in engaging the group. I gained considerable knowledge.Pedro Menendez, Chief, Vice President, Global Supply Chain, USG Building Systems
Our Faculty Directors
This portfolio is designed by faculty directors from the Penn State Smeal College of Business. They are executive faculty whose world-class research and industry involvement has created significant change within the private and public sectors. They have applied their expertise to design Executive Programs that balance visionary strategies and actionable results.