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Learn to identify strategic choices for supply chain management and how to implement those strategies that most closely align with your business. Examine critical issues of planning, designing, and operating highly effective integrated supply chains. Align the sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and sales organizations to efficiently serve the ultimate customer or consumer. Create a truly global supply chain by ensuring your suppliers become partners in the integrated supply chain system.

• Supply chain decision-makers with broad supply chain responsibility
• Executives striving to achieve the goals of integrated supply chain management
• Managers, directors, and vice-presidents preparing for broader and more challenging responsibilities in global supply chain management

• Understand the supply chain environment and develop a direction and plan that will create competitive and financial advantage through better supply chain management
• Plan and execute a strategy to achieve supply chain efficiency, effectiveness, and environmental and green objectives
• Create, implement, and leverage the capabilities of supply chain information technologies
• Leverage global resources to minimize supply chain costs and maximize customer service, as well as achieve agility and flexibility
• Manage supply chains in a world of economic, energy, human resources, and consumer market uncertainties

• Supply chain management: A strategic view
• Promises and practices of supply chain management
• Increasing shareholder value through supply chain management
• Lean thinking
• Lean Six Sigma supply chain management
• Collaboration and outsourcing: Creating agile and efficient supply chains
• Green / sustainable supply chains
• Supply chain technology trends and background
• Creating and implementing a technology strategy for your supply chain
• Supply chain functional and process technologies
• Supply chain management: The global perspective
• The role of public policy in shaping global supply chains
• Supply chain strategies in emerging markets
• Lessons learned: How to more effectively manage and lead your supply chain
• Technologies for transportation

Participants receive a course notebook.

This course counts as two points towards the Supply Chain & Logistics Certificate.