Supply Chain Management Programme

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In Bedfordshire

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    Course

  • Location

    Bedfordshire

Enhance your organisation's Supply Chain by managing and understanding the increasing volatile and complex environment with logistics and competitive strategies. Read more Read less Supply chain management is becoming increasingly important for organisations and, at the same time, more and more challenging for the individuals responsible. Globalisation is leading to lengthening supply chains, often associated with greater vulnerability to interruptions and delays.  This programme led by award winning faculty Professor Richard Wilding OBE and Professor Martin Christopher delivers you the latest thinking in supply chain management, support with the issues that occur in the current dynamic environment and will increase your confidence and ability to manage complex issues within your organisation. The Supply Chain Management Programme from Cranfield University School of Management has been endorsed by The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport and has been awarded 30 hours' Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

The benefits to Cranfield’s Supply Chain Management Programme? World-renowned industry Cranfield Centre for Logistics & Supply Chain Management faculty members including: Professor Richard Wilding OBE brings a wealth of expertise and experience with his significant contribution to Supply Chain Risk Management. In 2013, Richard was recognised for his outstanding achievement to logistics and supply chain management, he was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order to the British Empire (OBE) Professor Martin Christopher work in the field of logistics and supply chain has gained international recognition. He has published widely including recent bestselling books such as Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Marketing Logistics. Also regularly contributing to conference and workshops around the world Expert...

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Bedfordshire
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Cranfield University Cranfield, MK43 0AL

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Subjects

  • Risk
  • Risk Management
  • Supply
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Planning
  • IT risk
  • Professor Training
  • Supply and Chain Management
  • Logistics

Course programme

What you will learn You will gain:
  • New insights into developing supply chain to achieve competitive advantage
  • An increased understanding of the impact of supply chain management on costs and financial performance
  • Appreciation of approaches and frameworks that can be applied to different market segments
  • Reviews of the latest thinking on supply chain strategy, planning and execution.
Your organisation will gain:
  • Appreciation of how competitive advantage can be achieved within dynamic market places
  • Understanding of the impact of enhanced supply chain performance on the overall profitability of the organisation
  • Ability to address the management of supply chain risks
  • Recognition of the value of working across functions
  • An Action plan to enable improved supply chain performance.

Core content What knowledge will delegates gain:
  • Developing supply chain strategies within volatile environments
  • New approaches for improved supply chain performance
  • Supply Chain Risk Management and creating resilient supply chains
  • Supply chain segmentation – tailoring supply chains for different environments
  • Understand the impact of supply chain strategies on Planning, Sourcing & Procurement, the manufacturing environment, the delivery operations and reverse logistics
  • Specific discussions on Global Sourcing, Inventory, warehousing, Demand planning and forecasting, Performance measurement Customer profitability analysis and cost-to-serve, supply chain strategy in the boardroom.
How the delegate will develop
  • Taught by a world-renowned faculty including Professor Richard Wilding OBE, Professor Martin Christopher and Cranfield faculty contributors
  • Learn from our visiting academic and industrial thought leaders
  • Gain 30 hours' Continuing Professional Development (CPD) from the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport
  • The latest thinking from supply chain influencers (Professor Richard Wilding OBE was recently rated No 1 Supply Chain Power Influencer on Twitter)
  • Learn and understand all supply chain management elements, the vision beyond this with your own organisations and developing strategies to implement
  • Global sourcing and a supply chain management simulation workshop to implement your learnings, ideas and elements into strategies
  • Delegates are also encouraged to bring their specific supply chain challenges and these are address during Action Planning and Issues workshops.

Supply Chain Management Programme

Price on request