Supply Chain Accelerator

Often, supply chain leaders are faced with a tradeoff. To grow and develop our personal or staff expertise comes at the cost of disruption of our day-to-day work. For many, this cost is simply too high to make the investment of time and resources. Penn State Executive Programs aims to address this challenge with our Supply Chain Accelerator. Every aspect of the Penn State Supply Chain Accelerator is designed to teach you practical, immediately actionable concepts you may use to improve supply chain performance through a minimally disruptive, affordable, and value-loaded online format.

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Supply Chain Accelerator

Overview

Often, supply chain leaders are faced with a tradeoff. To grow and develop our personal or staff expertise comes at the cost of disruption of our day-to-day work. For many, this cost is simply too high to make the investment of time and resources. Penn State Executive Programs aims to address this challenge with our Supply Chain Accelerator. Every aspect of the Penn State Supply Chain Accelerator is designed to teach you practical, immediately actionable concepts you may use to improve supply chain performance through a minimally disruptive, affordable, and value-loaded online format.

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Group Instruction

Have 15 or more participants? Schedule a PRIVATE class – focused on your issues, delivered on your timeframe. We will work with you to select a combination of short, online sessions to address specific learning objectives for a cohort of leaders from across your organization. Your learners will work together to collaborate in discussion forums and group projects to achieve the desired outcomes.

Contact a Learning Solutions Associate today to create a program tailored to address your specific needs and desired outcomes.

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Program Details

  • The Penn State Supply Chain Accelerator features Learning Paths delivered over three consecutive weeks. Each week of the program includes:
    • 30 minutes of course activities each day for four days
    • A 60-minute virtual live event with expert faculty to summarize and evaluate work at the end of each one-week course segment
    • An expert guide working side-by-side with expert faculty to monitor day-to-day engagement, questions, and comments
    • Badges available upon completion of each Learning Path and professional certificates available upon completion of three learning paths

Target Audience

    • Senior Leaders who want to create a consistent foundation of supply chain strategy, language, and principles across their team.
    • Leaders in business units that interact and intersect with the supply chain
    • Newer and high-potential supply chain leaders
    • Managers addressing both strategic concepts and tactical application throughout the end-to-end supply chain.

Program Content

Supply Chain Accelerator Learning Paths

Each learning path features course content delivered online over a three-week period. 

  • Supply Chain Reinvention – Finding more Value in your Organization
    • Week 1: Leading the Modern Supply Chain
    • Week 2: Assessing Your Supply Chain Alignment and Collaboration
    • Week 3: Finding Opportunities in Your End-to-End Supply Chain
  • Logistics – Decisions, Opportunities and Optimization
    • Week 1: Critical Decisions in Logistics Management
    • Week 2: Evaluating Opportunities with Third Party Logistics Providers
    • Week 3: Optimizing Distribution Network Strategy
  • Procurement – Improvement, Strategy and Managing Risk
    • Week 1: Improving Procurement Practices
    • Week 2: Strategic Sourcing for Improved Performance
    • Week 3: Managing Supply Chain Risk
  • Advanced Procurement - Analyzing Costs Using Total Cost of Ownership
    • Week 1: Selecting and Managing Total Cost of Ownership Projects
    • Week 2: Preparing for TCO Analysis
    • Week 3: "Should Cost" Modeling and Success Factors
  • Project Management – Leading Successful Projects
    • Weeks 1-3: Leading Successful Projects
  • Supply Chain Leadership for Competitive Advantage
    • Week 1: Strategic Leadership Within Your Supply Chain Organization
    • Week 2: Defining Ways to Improve Your Supply Chain
    • Week 3: Supply Chain as a Competitive Advantage

Professional Certificates

Participants may earn certificates by completing any three of the Learning Paths presented above. Three different Executive Programs Certificates are described below:

Operations

Strategy & Leadership

Logistics – Decisions, Opportunities and Optimization

Supply Chain Reinvention

Procurement – Improvement, Strategy and Managing Risk

Advanced Procurement – Analyzing Costs Using Total Cost of Ownership

Project Management – Leading Successful Projects

Supply Chain Leadership for Competitive Advantage

Accelerating Supply Chain Strategy and Leadership – Earn by completing all three Strategy & Leadership Learning Paths.

Accelerating Supply Chain Operations - Earn by completing all three Operations Learning Paths.

Accelerating Supply Chain Integration – Earn by completing any combination of three Learning Paths from both the Operations and Strategy & Leadership categories.

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