Advanced Certificate in Supply Chain Management Course
Certified by Cognicert Business School, United Kingdom
With greater customer sophistication, increasing network fragmentation, and fast-paced globalisation, the primary role of supply chain management, along with the coordination of material, information and cash flows, has become complex. Supply Chain Management is a multidisciplinary programme designed to help you conceive innovative strategies and deploy differentiated solutions that can help your organisation serve customers in an optimal fashion. Develop the awareness and practical techniques you need to excel in the complex and highly competitive world of supply chain management. In as few as 5 weekends, you’ll acquire skills you can begin applying immediately on the job — along with certificates that will serve as an important milestone as you complete the course. The Cognicert Business School’s classroom certificate program lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of leading industry experts and practice your newly acquired skills via realistic supply chain simulations. You’ll also analyze case studies and learn proven “how-to” tips. Plus, your interactions with fellow classmates across the country and around the globe will give you valuable insights into real-world supply chain implementations from many different perspectives. The five-day programme is designed to address these issues through key concepts that underpin supply chain development. These are supported by three guiding principles: value, alignment and sustainability.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this Advanced Supply Chain Management Course you should be able to:
- Identify the key drivers of Supply Chain Management
- Adopt value as a guiding principle to deliver superior managerial performance with significant business impact
- Discover tools to align core processes resulting in the achievement of operational excellence
- Understand frameworks to manage risks and opportunities for sustainable supply chain management on a global scale
- Gain insights into the synergistic relationships between supply chain components and the impact of your role on the organization as a whole • Improve the flow of information across the supply chain to facilitate channel- or system-wide initiatives
- Implement process changes to better address customer demand and optimize your supply chain
- Adapt the best practices of the world’s most successful corporations for use within your company
- Define and identify value-added across the Supply Chain
- Identify and link the various Supply Chain elements
- Understand the objectives and components of supply chain management.
- Recognise local, regional, and global supply chain management activities
- Comprehend a brief history and current trends in supply chain management.
- Comprehend the bullwhip effect and how it impacts the supply chain.
Who Should Register?
This certificate program benefits professionals in every category of supply chain management, including planning, procurement and supply, manufacturing, warehousing, shipping, aviation, Transportation, Packaging and logistics.
Course Content
- Supply Chain Management: An Overview
- Supply Issues in Supply Chain Management
- Developing Supply Strategies
- Ethical and Sustainable Sources
- Demand Forecasting
- Resource Planning Systems
- Procurement Management
- Process Management in the Supply Chain
- Operation Process Management
- Production planning and management
- Negotiating
- Managing the Contract and Supplier Relationships
- Channel Management
- Distribution Issues in Supply Chain Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Managing Logistics in the Supply Chain
- Managing Inventory and warehousing
- Managing Finance in supply chain
- Packaging in Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Quality Management
- Basic Shipping Management
- Measuring and Evaluating Performance