VET² - Supply Chain and Logistics Management Program

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Overview

VET² - Supply Chain and Logistics Management Program

Course Description

The Georgia Tech VET2 Supply Chain and Logistics Management Program will provide you the fundamental knowledge, skills, and tools to transition to the civilian workplace with a career supply chain and logistics management. You’ll begin by developing an understanding of warehouse and distribution operations, followed by project management approaches and industry best practices. Class discussion and projects will place an emphasis on application of lean techniques and selecting the right supply chain partner based on business goals. You’ll also gain an integrated view of supply chain management that incorporates elements of customer service, inventory management, supply and demand planning, project management, and multi-modal freight management, analysis, and cost minimization.

Upon successful completion of a course project, you’ll receive the Georgia Tech VET2 Supply Chain and Logistics Management program certification. You may also elect to participate in VET2 Internship, a three-week internship with a new employer, as part of the program. However, this is not required for program completion or certification.

Course Content

MILITARY TO CIVILAN TRANSITION

  • The military transition experience
  • Introduction to program
  • How to analyze your organization’s missions
  • How to define a framing construct for comparison

WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS

  • Lean warehousing overview
  • Key elements and components of a lean warehouse
  • Distribution strategies
  • Quality checking
  • Shipping and receiving simulations
  • Lean storage criteria and methodology
  • Receiving simulation
  • Cross docking
  • Supplier development, procurement, and operations linkages

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FUNDAMENTALS

  • Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) review
  • Best practices for managing a supply chain selection project
  • The role of benchmarking in evaluating and selecting solutions
  • Request for proposal (RFP), request for information (RFI), and request for quotation (RFQ)
  • How to manage the requirements panning and stakeholder interview process

SUPPLY CHAIN SELECTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • Vendor management and defining requirements
  • Selection best practices and common pitfalls
  • Legal and ethical vendor management/project considerations
  • How to plan and manage the solution evaluation and RFP process
  • Decision theory application and matrices in driving consensus
  • Contract administration and management

THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS PROVIDER MARKET

SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTION PROVIDERS

  • Warehouse management system (WMS)
  • Transportation management system (TMS)
  • Order management system (OMS)
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

THE USE OF SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT PROJECT MANAGEMENT

  • How to evaluating cloud versus on-premise solutions
  • Pricing models

VISUAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

PROCESS MANAGEMENT

  • “Phase implementation” overview
  • Current state processes standardization/stabilization
  • How to develop and implement future state processes, diagrams, and operations design
  • How to define standard time processes
  • Workload planning
  • Workforce allocation
  • Leveling volume

TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT

  • Cost minimization
  • Mode analysis
  • North American Transportation Management market trends
  • Transportation procurement
  • Transportation cost analysis
  • Operational best practices
  • Incoterm fundamentals
  • Port logistics systems
  • Greenhouse gas emissions reduction techniques
  • Emerging techniques in logistics
Requirements & Materials
Important Information

Students in this course will automatically be enrolled in LEAP: Supply Chain Management Principles (Online) during the registration process.  After registration, but before the course begins, follow the Online Course Account Activation instructions that display at the bottom of the section details page. These steps must be completed in order to access the online course content. 

Prerequisites
Materials

Required 

  • A laptop with Windows-based software (PCs are preferred). If you do not have a laptop, one may be provided for the duration of the course pending availability.

Provided 

  • Veterans Education Training and Transition Workbook and Advance Sheets (2015)

  • Notebook of slides, notes, exercises, and project management tools and templates

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for active duty military, reserve, or National Guard personnel with honorable service and leadership experience who want to transition to a new career in management in the supply chain and logistics industry.

What You Will Learn

  • Supply chain management and domains
  • How to research a potential employer using the 5Ws and operations order (OPORD)
  • The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Common types of supply chain transformation projects and methodologies for success
  • How to manage a supply chain selection project
  • Project assessment, risk management, evaluation, and performance
  • Key elements of transportation
  • Legal and ethical considerations for vendor selection

How You Will Benefit

  • Recognize the challenges veterans face when transitioning and understand how to cope with socialization and integration in a new work environment.
  • Identify the differences between military and civilian organization structures.
  • Demonstrate how warehouse operations are key to a successful supply chain implementation and the starting point for a transformation.
  • Know how to form and deploy a supply chain team and effectively monitor, control, and close the project.
  • Develop the knowledge, skills, and tools to ensure you’re selecting the right supply chain partners (including third-party logistic providers) based on your business goals.
  • Understand the basics of transportation operations and analysis. 
  • Learn how to leverage lean supply chain modifications to improve customer responsiveness and reduce operation costs.
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The coursework focused on skills needed for members of the military to transition easily into the civilian world, and having a reputable and marketable skill ensured that my resume got noticed.

- Krista Langan

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