Supply Chain Management (Online)

This course will introduce you to the basic concepts of supply chain management, including the basic flow, core models, supply chain drivers, key metrics, benchmarking techniques, and ideas for taking your supply chain to the next level.

This course is best suited to students who are involved in product development, sourcing and procurement, production, logistics, distribution, and the use of information systems for the purpose of co-ordinating these activities.

On successful completion of this short course, you will able to:

• define supply chain management and logistics.
• explain the vertical integration and virtual integration models.
• understand the stages in the basic supply chain flow.
• identify participants in the supply chain.
• recognise supply chain drivers and ways to optimise them.
• align supply chain strategy with business strategy.
• determine what metrics to track and how to benchmark the related data.
• troubleshoot basic supply chain problems.
• identify ways to develop your supply chain, such as using third‐party logistics providers (3PL’s), insourcing processes, developing sustainable and eco‐friendly strategies, leveraging process improvement strategies and adopting new techniques.